Top Destinations in Eastern Visayas
SAN JUANICO BRIDGE
The San Juanico Bridge is part of the Pan-Philippine Highway and stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss design.
MACARTHUR LEYTE LANDING MEMORIAL NATIONAL PARK, PALO
The Mac Arthur Leyte Landing Memorial National Park is a protected area of the Philippines that commemorates the historic landing of General Douglas Mac Arthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944.
SANTO NIÑO SHRINE AND HERITAGE MUSEUM
The Santo Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum, colloquially referred to as the Imelda Marcos Museum, is a building in Tacloban, the Philippines. It was formerly owned by the Marcos family and now houses a museum. It was built from 1979 to 1981 by then-First Lady and wife of President Ferdinand Marcos, Imelda Marcos.
PANAON ISLAND
Panaon Island is famous for its world-class dive spots on Panaon Island are some of the best in the world. Panaon Island is enriched with magnificent coral formations and is one of the last remaining places in the Philippines with healthy, vibrant corals.
SOHOTON CAVES & NATURAL BRIDGE PARK
The Sohoton Caves and Natural Bridge Park is a protected natural area about 841 hectares and a tourist attraction within the Samar Island Natural Park. The natural park features caves, subterranean rivers, waterfalls, limestone formations, thick forest and a natural stone bridge.
M/V EVA JOCELYN SHRINE
Yolanda Shrine or Yolanda monument and simply as M/V Eva Jocelyn is a ship monument washed ashore at Tacloban City, caused by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). It hit the central Philippines on November 8, 2013. The name of M/V Eva Jocelyn was merged to Yolanda after the disaster.