Roxas City ranks among Asia's fine adventure destinations
Roxas City -- A 15-minute documentary about Roxas City is regularly shown over Living Asia Channel in its travel guide segments as among Asia's fine adventure destinations.
The documentary named "Of Sand Dunes and Curious Wonder: Exploring Roxas City" depicts the city as a Seafood Capital of the country and attracts travelers with its folkloric charm as well as natural and man-made wonders. It features the abundant seafoods, cultural and religious landmarks including shell craft and horticulture industries.
A harvest of angel wings locally known 'diwal' was presented in the story as among the abundant seafood popular for its exotic taste.
The bivalve is popularly claimed to have aphrodisiac substances beneficial to diwal aficionados.
Roxas City Mayor Antonio del Rosario declared the first 'Diwal Festival' in time with the harvest season of diwal last July 2005 to celebrate the return of the bivalve in considerable volume in local municipal and city coastal waters.
The feature produced by CCI Asia New Media Productions, Inc. displayed establishing shots of the city and popular infrastructures like the 'Ang Panubli-on' city museum, city hall, Roxas City cathedral, and Roxas Bridge among others worthy of a visit for personal experience and appreciation.
The Roxas City Promotion and Development Office reported an estimated 28 percent increase in the arrival of tourists here last year with an estimated 32,042 tourist arrivals, higher than the 22,917 recorded in 2004.
Roxas City can be reached thru sea transport and or a 45-minute plane ride by tourists coming from Metro Manila.
(A. Lumaque/PIA)