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BICOL REGION - Camoteng Kahoy in Caramelized Sugar

ALBAY – Land of the perfect Cone CAMARINES NORTE – Bicolandia’s Goldmine


- Capital: Legazpi City - Capital: Daet
ATTRACTIONS ATTRACTIONS
- Cagsawa Ruins - Bagasbas Beach in Daet
- Cagsawa, Daraga Church - Calaguas Island
- Tabaco Church - Date Pineapple Festival – June 15-24
- Mayon Volcano in Albay
CUISINES
- Pinangat Festival – June 10-24 in
Camalig, Albay - Sinantol
- Magayon Festival – May 1-31 in Albay - Binatog - glutinous rice (malagkit) that's
cooked in coconut cream, salt and
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ginger, just like the common suman in
- Kinunot - This dish is made from contrast with the one boiled in white
stingray meat and malunggay corn kernel.
(horseradish) and is cooked in coconut
CAMARINES SUR – World’s Smallest Fish and
milk.
Higher Climbs
- Pinangat - Pinangat is made from local
“natong” leaves (taro/gabi leaves) and - Capital: Pili
“gata” (coconut milk) and most houses
in Bicol Region will have these planted ATTRACTIONS
nearby. - Mt. Iriga
CATANDUANES – Land of the Howling Winds - Caramoan National Park in Caramoan
Peninsula
- Capital: Virac - Camsur Watersports Complex (CCC)
- Misibis Bay in Bacacay, Albay
ATTRACTIONS
- Our Lady of Penafrancia Festival – 3rd
- Binurong Point Sunday of September in Naga City –
- Cagnipa Rolling Hills, Pandan Patroness of Bicol Region
Catanduanes - Kaogma Festival – May 24-31 in Pili,
- Puraran Beach CamSur. The word "kaogma" is derived
- Catandungan Festival – Otober 20-23. from the Bicolano word meaning
held in honor of Our Lady of La Naval. A “happy.” Kaogma Festival is a week-long
provincewide observance, it is a pageant of colorful activities.
remembrance of the historic creation of
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the province on October 26, 1945
- Abaca Festival – 4th week of May - Sili Ice Cream
- Laing Pizza
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- Dawa - sandy-textured kakanin made


from millets, a type of grain that grows
abundantly from march to april.
MASBATE – Rodeo Country of Bicol meat wrapped in leaves and cooked in
coconut milk
- Capital: Masbate City
- Kuyog Kuyog
ATTRACTIONS

- Palani Beach
- Buntod Reef Marine Sanctuary
- Bituon Beach
- Catandayagan Falls, Ticao Island
- Cattle Farm
- Rodeo Festival – March 30-April 13

CUISINES

- SuTuKil (Sugba, Tula, Kilaw)


- Caramelado & Molido
- Sinagol - The shark meat is flaked and
mixed with the other ingredients which
are then cooked in coconut cream
sauce with spices

SORSOGON – Bicol’s Whaleshark Paradise

- Capital: Sorsogon City

ATTRACTIONS

- Barcelona Church
- Island Hopping in Matnog
- Pili Festival - held every June 29. It puts
a spotlight to the bountiful harvest of
pili (Canarium ovatum), a fruit-bearing
tree that grows abundantly in the
province, and it also coincides with the
patronal feast of Sts. Paul & Peter.
- Butanding Festival – May 17-24
- Donsol is leading the way (in the
Philippines) for sustainable tourism but
also for involving the public in a great
interaction with a gentle giant, the
Whale Shark or Butanding as it is known
in Tagalo.

CUISINES

- Kinagang - A bicolano dish made from


young coconut meat, crab and shrimp

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