This is Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan Province. The source of electric power in the southern portion of the Philippines. Iligan is home to majestic waterfalls, the most popular of which is the Maria Cristina Falls. Known for its pristine beauty, the 320 feet high waterfalls also serves as the city’s industrial lifeline – generating power for the city’s heavy industries through the turbines of the Maria Cristina Hydroelectric Power Plant.

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Maria Cristina Falls has become a major source of power, but it is also the home of nationally acclaimed artists, poets, cultural workers, and writers, and geographically, is a cross road of the cultural mix of the Maranaos of Lanao del Sur, Higaonons of Bukidnon, and the dominantly Christian settlers and migrants from the Visayas and other places of Mindanao.

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This postcard shows Fuente Osmena in Cebu City, Philippines. Fuente Osmena is one of city’s most famous landmarks dominating the uptown area where commercial and banking establishments have proliferated. It is a fountain honoring Cebu’s favorite son, the late President Sergio Osmena, Sr. This beautiful fountain, stands at the center of a huge circular park called Fuente Osmena located at uptown Cebu City. The fountain was built to commemorate Cebu’s first waterworks system.

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Cebu has gained wide popularity for its fantastic diving grounds evidenced by the proliferation of resorts which offer luxurious accommodations, excellent dive facilities and the services of competent dive masters and dive guides. Cebu’s strategic location makes it ideal for those who wish to travel to the other islands and provinces.

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In the fastness of the Cordillera mountains, 250-km north of Manila, Ifugao tribespeople have carved a livelihood from bare rock. Over the centuries, generations of Ifugao have laid stone after stone constructing dikes to hold back what little soil washed off the mountainsides creating vertical gardens that rise as “stairways to the heavens.”

Rice terraces are common throughout Asia but nowhere are they as spectacular as in the rugged mountains of northern Luzon. The Ifugaos have resisted integration into mainstream society and still practice their traditional farming and religion although headhunting is on the wane.

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Nagtabon is a lovely stretch of white sand beach with crystal clear waters offshore located 45 kilometers west of the city proper. The beach stretches 800 meters long and 15 meters wide ideal for sunbathing, swimming and other water sports. Small resorts offer food and lodging facilities for visitors.

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Nagtabon is a lovely stretch of white sand beach with crystal clear waters.

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