Camarines Norte's Tourist Attraction
Pineapple Festival
A festival showcasing the province’s primary
agri-product, its sweetest queen Fromosa
Pineapple. Featured are colorful street
presentation, art exhibits, agri-trade fair, cultural
dances and sports. It is topped by a food
processing demonstration of pineapple
ingredients.
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COLASI FALLS |
It is an attractive falls amid a pristine forest in Colasi,
Mercedes. The falls is about 70 feet high with
flashings, blue, cool water for swimmers, bathers and
nature lovers. It is about 11/2-hour ride by jeepney
from Daet to Colasi and 3-hour hike from the barangay
proper to the falls.
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MANANAP FALLS |
This falls is about 60 feet high with deep water ideal for
swimming, freswater fishing, camping and nature
watching. It also offers ooportunities for back-packng
and trailing. You could be there after a 2-kilometer
hike from Barangay Fabrica, San Vicente.
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NACALI FALLS |
Approximately 60 feet high, this falls offer a good place
for swimming, freshwater fishing, nature watching and
backpack riding. It can be reached by hiking
approximately 5-7 kilometers passing through
Matacong hanging bridge in San Lorenzo Ruiz.
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SINAGTALA |
About 22 hectares, this land, located at Barangay
Lugui, Labo, was developed into an ideal resort
destination. The fresh and cool flowing water of
Matogdon River was trapped and turned into natural
swimming pools offering the best place for picnicking
and swimming. It also has facilities like cottages,
picnic huts, restrooms and conference room for
tourists.
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BASUD RIVER |
It is wide river system with clear, deep and clean blue
water. Awarded as the cleanest body of inland water in
the Bicol Region in the Search for Cleanest and
Greenest Local Government Units Inland Body of Water
category, it is ideal for river cruising, kayaking and
swimming.
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MAMPUROG RIVER |
This river is wide with clear and deep cold water, a nice
place to wade in and explore. It is a very popular
choice for swimming, excursions and picnics during
summer.
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BAGASBAS BEACH |
The most popular beach resort in the province is in
Barangay, Daet. You reach it after a five (5) minute
ride on any type of moter vehicle from Daet Poblacion.
The beach has a long and wide expense of fine gray
sand. During clear but windy days, the waves that roll
in from the Pacific Ocean make it a paradise for surfing
beginners and afficonados. It is considered one of the
most beautiful beaches in the country.
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MANGCAMAGONG BEACH |
This is a clean gray beach facing San Miguel Bay with
clear water suitable for swimming and outings. Its
scenic and peaceful ambience provide excursionists and
tourists a nice place for relaxation. Cottages,
restrooms, roadside eateries and sheds are available to
tourists at reasonable prices. Here, you can broil capiz
shells- a delicacy.
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MERCEDES GROUP OF ISLANDS |
The islands can be reached in about 30 to 45 minute
motorboat ride from Mercedes town proper. The major
attractions in these islands are its clean white beaches,
corrals, underwater sceneries, rock formations and fish
sanctuary. Additional come-ons are scenic landscapes
and seascapes, the attractive lighthouse in Canimog
Island, unexplored Canton Cave, and the different
types of seashells and tropical fishes that abound. The
place is good for island hopping, swimming, bird
watching, boating, snorkeling, trekking, scuba diving,
golf in Apuao Grande Resort, jet skiing, spear fishing,
and other related activities.
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CALAGUAS GROUP OF ISLANDS |
This group of islands is suitable for water based
activities such as swimming, snorkeling, wind surfing
and island hopping and land-based activities like
trekking and sunbathing. The islands all have beaches
with white, powdery sand similar to that foundin
Boracay. During good weather, you can reach them
after a two-hour motor boat ride from Vinzons town
proper.
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QUINAMANUKAN ISLAND |
This tourist attraction offers white wide sand beach and
clear water ideal for swimming and snorkeling. It is
about 40 minutes ride by motorboat from the town
proper of Vinzons.
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CALAGUAS GROUP OF ISLANDS |
This group of islands is suitable for water based
activities such as swimming, snorkeling, wind surfing
and island hopping and land-based activities like
trekking and sunbathing. The islands allhave beaches
with white, powdery sand similar to that found in
Boracay. During good weather, you can reach them
after a two-hour motor boat ride from Vinzons town
proper.
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SAN JOSE BEACH |
This is an extension in Talisay town of Bagasbas beach
which is known for its fine gray sand. It faces the
Pacific Ocean and features strong winds, making it ideal
for wind surfing. You can also snorkel, jet ski, swim or
just laze around.
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PAG-ASA BEACH |
Just 3 kilometers away from the town proper of Jose
Panganiban, this beach became popular among
enthusiastic swimmmers, bathers and night
promenaders.
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LANOT SODA SPRING |
A fascinating creation of nature, it is a soda spring on
the beach in Barangay Lanot, Mercedes, near the
Camarines Sur boundary, 39 kilometers south of Daet.
Barangay Lanot can be reached by sea from Mercedes
and by land from Daet via Sipocot, Camarines Sur.
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KALAYAAN PARK |
One of the most beautiful parks in the Bicol Region with
panoramic garden view, fountain, man-made lagoon,
Wenceslao Q. Vinzons and Jose Rizal bronze statues
(the talles statue of Jose P. Rizal outside Metro
Manila). It showcases the cultural, historical and
natural resources of the province. It is located infront
of the Provincial Capitol in Daet, the capital town of
Camarines Norte.
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PROVINCIAL CAPITOL |
One of the most beautiful Provincial Capitols in the
entire country. Reconstructed from 1986-1995, it
provide a permanent seat for the Provincial
Government of Camarines Norte. It has 12 big front
columns or posts representing the 12 municipalities of
the province.
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ELEVATED TWON PLAZA |
This tourist attraction sports panoramic garden view
with fountain, benches, children’s playground, fountain
at its entrance, snack bar, piped-in music, wide screen
public colored television and skating pink. It is only
three (3) minutes away by tricycle from the terminal.
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RIZAL MINI PARK |
It is located beside the former Daet Municipal Hall andit
is where the First Rizal Monument and Monument of the
Martyrs of Camarines Norte were erected. It has a
playground and benches. About 5 minute ride by
tricycle from theIntegrated Bus Terminal gets you to
the Park.
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TOWN PARK |
This is a mini-town park with panoramic garden view
and mini sports complex infront of Talisay Municipal
Hall, Talisay, about 10 minutes ride by jeepney or bus
from Daet.
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PEOPLE’S PARK |
This Park which haws a panoramic garden view with
fountain, benches and a monument of Rizal is located
in Poblacion Labo, besides the Labo Sports Complex,
about 15 minutes by jeepney or bus from Daet.
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FIRST RIZAL MONUMENT |
It is a three-tiered stone pylon with its square base
supporting a triangle in tow stages, the last one
tapering off to a point. Built in 1898, the First
Monument of Rizal in the Philippines is located across
the Old Daet Municipal Hall. Its foundation, it is
believed, is made of mortars and boulders from the
demolished Old Spanish Jail in Daet where many
patriots died, making it historically and culturally
significant.
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LANITON LANDMARK |
It is the site of the first guerilla encounter against the
Japanese Imperial Army at Barangay Laniton, Basud,
Camarines Norte. It could be reached in about 15 to
20 minutes ride from Daet town proper.
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VINZONS CHURCH |
One of the oldest church in the Philippines which
celebrated its 400 years anniversary in 1981.
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CAPALONGA SHRINE OF
THE BLACK NAZARENE |
One of the famous tourist attractions of the province
where all roads, it seems, lead to it every May 13. All
devotees and / or pilgrims of different nationalities flock
to pay homage to the miraculous image of the Black
Nazarene, whose shrine is right in the town proper of
Capalonga.
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VINZONS SHRINE |
It is a tow storey house, the residence of Wenceslao Q.
Vinzons, Sr., a hero during the Japanese War. It was
converted into a shrine complete with public library and
museum which stores the memorabilia of the hero. It
is located in the town proper of Vinzons (formermly
Indan).
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JOSE MARIA PANGANIBAN’S MONUMENT |
This is a bronze statue (9 ft. tall) erected inhonor of
Jose Maria Panganibn, a Filipino Propagandist in Spain
and hero, dubbed as the “Avenger of Filipino Honor”,
who was born in Mambulao (former name of the
Municipality of Jose Panganiban). It stands right in
front of the Jose Panganiba Municipal Hall and contains
the remains of the martyr which have been laid below it
and inside the center of the monument’s base.
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PARACALE GOLD MINING INDUSTRY |
Sites of this industry are located at the barangays of
Pinagbirayan Gumaus, Tawis and Paracale town
proper. These are some of the richest gold mining sites
in the province or region. Thousands of gold panners
come here from the different provinces of bicol and the
province of Quezon and Batangas.
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