BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN

Boracay Island is a small island located in the Philippines located approximately 300 km south of Manila. Boracay Island and the beaches of the island has gained so much fame and even awards from many numerous travel publications and agencies.

BANAUE RICE TERRACES, IFUGAO

One of the major appeal of Banaue rice terraces to the local and international tourist are the many hiking trails in the area. There are many young locals, mostly college students who serve as guides. But with or without a guide, you will find the friendliness and warmth of the Ifugao people endearing.

MAYON VOLCANO, ALBAY

Classified as a stratovolcano (a volcano made up of layers of lava alternating with cinder and ash) Mount Mayon or Mayon Volcano is very much active and is located in the in the Bicol Region, in the province of Albay, on Luzon Island, Philippines.

CHOCOLATE HILLS, BOHOL

The most famous tourist spot of Bohol which marked the symbol of this Province is in the Municipality of Carmen. These unique landform known as “Chocolate Hills” was formed ages by the uplift of coral deposits and the action of rainwater erosion. The hills are scattered throughout the towns of Carmen, Sagbayan and Batuan, and consist of 1,268 of the same general shape.

TUBBATAHA REEF, SULU

The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 130,028 ha, including the North and South Reefs. It is a unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species; the North Islet serving as a nesting site for birds and marine turtles. The site is an excellent example of a pristine coral reef with a spectacular 100-m perpendicular wall, extensive lagoons and two coral islands.

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Friday, January 9, 2015

General Yamashita's Surrender Site

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GENERAL YAMASHITA'S SURRENDER SITE

House relics memorializing the end of W.W. II in the Philippines. Details of the surrender and signing are available. From here, General Yamashita was brought to Baguio for his formal surrender to the victorious Allies.  

Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines surrendered on 02 September 1945 in this Home Economics building of the Kiangan Central School. He was then taken to Baguio City where his formal surrender was staged, tried for war crimes, and hanged in Los Banos in 1946.

The Home Economics building of the Kiangan  Central School was the place where Yamashita physically surrendered to the Americans on September 2, 1945 after he  came down from his hideout in the Hungduan-Tinoc area.

Yamashita’s surrender took place in Kiangan’s forested and once-entrenched Nabulaguian Hill where he and his remaining forces were holed up before they eventually yielded to the Allied forces on Sept. 2. 1945, following almost a month of bombardment.

After an overnight stay in Kiangan with his remaining battle-weary forces, Yamashita was brought on Sept. 3, 1945 by helicopter to Baguio City, where he formally signed surrender documents before American forces at Camp John Hay.

Dubbed the Tiger of Malaya during the war, Yamashita, 60, was tried and sentenced to death for war crimes in December 1945 by an American military tribunal in Manila. He was hanged on Feb. 23, 1946, at Los Baños Prison Camp.

The provincial government said that instead of calling Sept. 2 as “Yamashita Fall,” it is more aptly called as “Victory Day” because the fall of the Japanese general also marked the beginning of the liberation of the Philippines after almost five years of Japanese rule.
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“The celebration of Victory Day in the province of Ifugao also promotes interest and pride in our history as a people, forges closer bonds of unity and renews our resolve to secure true and lasting peace,” the presidential proclamation said.

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