Luzon, Philippines

Luzon, Philippines

Luzon Philippines

Luzon is the largest island in the archipelago, occupying over a third of the nation’s total land area. That landmass extends from the rice basket of the broad, flat Central Plains, where surgar cane, coconuts, and tobacco grow, to mighty mountain ranges of the Cordillera. The key to its Luzon's pre-eminence over the centuries has been the national capital Manila’s strategic bayshore location at the mouth of the Pasig river. Manila serves as a gateway to the mountainous rice terraces in Ifugao province. The island fortress of Corregidor and the once war-torn peninsula of Bataan are also found in this northern part of the archipelago. Among the island’s hotbed of volcanoes are Taal and Mt Pinatubo, which angrily awoke from a 450-year slumber in 1991. Luzon has two of the first three cities founded by Spanish invaders in the late 1500s. After gaining a foothold in Cebu in 1565, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi seized Manila in 1571 and built thick stone walls near its shores. By 1572, the Spanish conquistadors had founded their third city on the northwest Ilocos coast at Vigan. Today a small town, Vigan remains one of the country’s best preserved Spanish-style cities.The windswept Batanes Islands off the northern coast of Luzon offer hiking experiences, while the islands off the southern coast are speckled with scarcely developed white sand beaches and coral-studded waters. Northeastern Luzon is known for a wealth of caves for exploring, plus the Cagayan River, the longest in the Philippines.
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Ninoy Aquino Intl (MNL)
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