Loading ...The Visayas
Several threshold events in the history of the nation occurred in the Visayas. Magellan landed off the Cebu coast in 1521, marking the Philippines’ first contact with Europeans, and MacArthur fulfilled his vow to return to the country during WWII, landing near Tacloban on Leyte.
This is the part of the country that fits the clichés of the sun-soaked, gin-stained Edenic paradise. The beaches are white and palm fringed, the locals fish in the turquoise waters, and the heat is so enervating that all exertion is called into question.
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