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==Road trip to Mindoro== | |||
*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/opinion/6805-road-trip-to-mindoro | |||
* Thursday, September 08, 2011 | |||
: By THELMA DUMPIT-MURILLO | |||
ANY public relations practitioner worth his salt necessarily must know his “product” before he can start selling it. And so off we went to Oriental Mindoro as part of a fam tour of Region 4B or MIMAROPA for a look-see and to talk to a couple of SMEs. With my photographer and staff writer in tow, our road trip started at the BOI building in Makati at 6:30 in the morning with the first stop at a gas station on SLEX for breakfast. After a brief repast, we were on our way to Batangas Pier where we would take a Supercat ferry to Calapan City. The roads were good all the way and wished it was like this to all our tourist destinations. | |||
Oriental Mindoro opens its doors to everyone, from the regular travelers and tourists to the businessmen and investors, so says their official website. A visit to Oriental Mindoro accords visitors a peaceful retreat from the complexities of city life. The serene and rejuvenating atmosphere of its white sand beaches and clear blue waters, and the fascinating view of its majestic mountains embellished with lush green forests are wondrous sights to behold. As attested by local and multi-national investors, the island–province is regarded as the new gateway to the south — the Visayas and Mindanao — which paves the way to better business opportunities and exciting tourist destinations. It has now the capacity to be one of our country’s economic centers presently attributed to Subic, Cebu and Davao. Soon, it will be known as a tourism Mecca comparative to Boracay, Palawan and the likes. | |||
You will find a number of hotel resorts to accommodate your travel and tour requirements in the province, as well as links to several lists of ideal tourism sites to complement one’s stay in the island. Through the nautical mile, you can take a ro-ro up to Boracay or Iloilo. Mindoro is the 7th largest island in the Philippine archipelago. It was on November 15, 1950 thru Republic Act 505 that this island was divided into two separate provinces, the province of Oriental Mindoro on the eastern half and Occidental Mindoro on the western part of the province. | |||
Oriental Mindoro measures 4,364.72 square kilometers. It has 14 municipalities and one component city, namely: Puerto Galera, San Teodoro, Baco, Calapan City (the provincial capital), Naujan, Victoria, Pola, Socorro, Pinamalayan, Gloria, Bansud, Bongabong, Roxas, Mansalay,and Bulalacao. Oriental Mindoro is also known as the “Rice Granary” and “Fruit Basket” of Southern Tagalog. It still is the Banana King and Calamansi King of the region. Its total agricultural area is 169, 603.34 hectares. Based on agricultural statistics, 85, 244 hectares are devoted to palay production while 21, 671 hectares to coconut plantation. The province, for the past years, registered an average of 1 to 2 million cavans as surplus in rice production. Oriental Mindoro, with all these potentials, has become a premium destination for tourists and a fine ground for both local and foreign investors. | |||
We were met by DTI Region 4B Director Joel Valera at Calapan City. After freshening up, we then proceeded to our first SME – Merl’s Suman sa Lihiya factory. Merl’s has been in business for ten years now but like any success story, hers was a product of many years of kitchen testing. Today, she supplies not just local distribution outlets like SM supermarkets and Tiendesitas but her product has already gone across the globe. Merl’s is a perfect example of a social enterprise that is profitable at the same time sustainable. Who would have thought that her business will be able to earn as high as 25 thousand pesos a day on holidays and a low of 10,000 pesos on regular days. You can taste Merl’s Suman sa Lihiya at the OTOP National Trade Fair at the SM Megatrade hall from Sept 22-25, 2011. | |||
Oriental Mindoro is touted as the country’s “emerging eco-tourism destination”. It evokes images of a genuine tropical paradise — white sands, crystal clear water, lush green forests covering majestic mountains and splendid waterfalls. Tamaraw, an indigenous specie of the water buffalo, various flora and fauna found on slopes of Mount Halcon and the native Mangyans, all together add to the richness of nature and culture of the province. | |||
In an article, Minina Servano writes: | |||
“When the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, they discovered islanders who had their own script and even women who could read and write. | |||
“Eventually the conquerors identified about a dozen different scripts in the archipelago, all originating from India and related to the writing modes of their Southeast Asian neighbors. By the 19th century most Filipinos had replaced their indigenous syllabic writing system or baybayin script with the Roman alphabet of the colonizers. Due to their relative mountain isolation the Hanunuo-Mangyan of Mindoro have managed to retain this indigenous way of writing until the present day, engraving it on bamboo joints or slats with a small knife. | |||
“Out of all the regions in the Philippines and around 110 indigenous peoples (IP) groups in the country, only the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan, together with the Palawan and Tagbanwa of Palawan, have retained their original syllabary. The syllabic writing systems of these four IP groups were declared as National Cultural Treasures in 1997, and inscribed in the Memory of the World Registers of UNESCO in 1998.” | |||
==Mt. Halcon hike moratorium: Who really benefited?== | ==Mt. Halcon hike moratorium: Who really benefited?== | ||
*Source: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/12679/mt-halcon-hike-moratorium-who-really-benefited | *Source: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/12679/mt-halcon-hike-moratorium-who-really-benefited | ||
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But was it able to do so? Or the years that the mountaineers were barred from exploring Mt. Halcon could have been the time that destructive activities went unchecked? | But was it able to do so? Or the years that the mountaineers were barred from exploring Mt. Halcon could have been the time that destructive activities went unchecked? | ||
Mt. Halcon is a precious wealth of Oriental Mindoro. It is an important natural resource and watershed for the province. It needs special protection. | Mt. Halcon is a precious wealth of Oriental Mindoro. It is an important natural resource and watershed for the province. It needs special protection. | ||
==AFP conducts free medical, dental services for Mangyans== | ==AFP conducts free medical, dental services for Mangyans== | ||