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Roxas (Palawan) tourist information
Roxas (Palawan) tourist information
Working-class middle-sized town. Even though it is considered a 1st class municipality, it seems as though parts of the Manila slums have trickled out into the country.
Roxas is not a spectacular place scenery wise. It is more of an agricultural and fisheries area. The town proper itself including many other Barangays had previously been mined for Silica and still bears the scars of the environmental destruction. It is just a place where people struggle to live. Day in and day out the people living there are just going about their modest lives. They are not very accustomed to dealing with a lot of tourists except those passing through, but they are genuinely quite excited to interact with any tourists that show them an ounce of friendship or give them the time of day.
There is really no sense of local pride in being from Roxas. Most of the people have migrated there from other islands probably because of the cheap/free land and have decided to stick it out due to the decent agriculture and fisheries. The pride of the people is more about which island they came from, not where they are currently living. Because of this lack of local pride, the town itself has very little to no aesthetic appeal, things look as though they have just been scraped together in a very poorly thought out manner.
If you're looking for outdoor adventures and majestic beauty, Roxas will probably sorely disappoint you, but if you're looking for a taste of the quiet country farm life (if you make it out into the Barrio's) or the weird culture that is the Philippines (Asian, Spanish, Chinese and American all mixed in awkward proportions) then it is worth spending a moment, taking a breather and meeting a few locals, if for nothing else but a unique view on life.
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