San Juanico Bridge-
Longest Bridge in the Philippines
The country's longest bridge is the San Juanico Bridge, a steel structure
connecting the islands of Samar and Leyte. Built in 1973 under the Marcos
administration, the 2.16-kilometer bridge crosses over the picturesque San
Juanico Strait as a part of the Maharlika Highway. Also known as Marcos
Bridge, San Juanico Bridge has 43 spans rising 41 meters above the sea.
Bunton Bridge in Cagayan province is said to be the country's second longest
bridge.
The title of the longest bridge, however, may soon belong to a bridge, which
will be built in the Manila Bay. This cable suspension bridge will link
Metro Manila to the provinces of Bataan and Cavite. It will be patterned
after the Tokyo Bay Aqualine, which connects Kawasaki City in Kanagawa
Prefecture to Kisarazu City in Japan.
Among the longest bridges in the world are the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in
New York, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the East Bridge-Great
Belt Fixed Link in Denmark, the Hoga Kusten in Sweden, and the Tsing Ma
Bridge in Hong Kong.
Mayon-
2,462-meter Mayon, about 340 kilometers
southeast of Manila in Albay province, is famous among local and foreign
tourists for its near-perfect conical shape despite dozens of eruptions in
the past three centuries. The eruption of February 24, 2000 was Mayon's
47th since its first recorded upheaval in 1616. Mayon's last major eruption
was in February 1993, when 70 people died and more than 50,000 people were
evacuated. It's deadliest eruption was in February 1, 1814 when it buried
the entire town of Cagsawa under ash and killed more than 1,300 people.
Kawasan Falls -
are where a river falls steeply down
the hills above the town of Matatinao, just south of Badia (Cebu). It is
actually a series of waterfalls, of which the first is the biggest, however
the scenery gets wilder and more impressive the further up you go.
What are you waiting for? Visit Cebu now.
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