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  Bantayan Richmond Tropical Resort
Bantayan Island, the rich and radiant tropical destination of the Pacific, is located at the northern tip of Cebu.
Bantayan is also the primary egg producer of Cebu and neighboring islands producing over a million eggs daily.
Because during this period when Jesus Christ is dead, fishermen in the island decline to venture out to sea, thus, their families are forced to slaughter their livestock and eat meat.
www.richmondhotelcebu.com /bantayan/bantayan.php   (207 words)

  
 Municipality of Bantayan
Bantayan Island is essentially a fishing island group.
Bantayan is blessed with abundant fish because of its strategic location.
However, during recent days marine resources are declining due to over fishing, blasting, use of poison, use of fine mesh nets, and the intrusion of commercial fishing boats within the municipal waters.
www.bantayan.gov.ph   (130 words)

  
 Bantayan, Cebu
In Bantayan, there are 405-year-old church the one-and-a-half century house of Anun Escario, the Ogtong Cave and the rest of the ancient unarmed caves the old Spanish kota (fort) in Sta.
Bantayan Island has an interesting dialect, mixture of Ilonggo, Waray and Cebuano but one that is Greek to both Cebuanos and Ilonggos.
Reservations to Bantayan's beach resorts for the Lenten Season should be done six months to one year earlier.
www.ngkhai.com /pointcebu/facts/bantayan.htm   (603 words)

  
 Kilusan.Net - KMU-SMR Secretary General Gets Threat to Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bantayan was on his way to a meeting when three unidentified men were seen surveilling his residence in Brgy.
Bantayan was with a companion who went out first and was the one to notice two men standing some feet away on either side the gate.
Bantayan is among the “Davao 8,” coined for eight leaders of progressive mass organizations and partylists in Davao City whom the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group linked with Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador in his rebellion charges.
kilusan.net /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=639   (646 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Bantayan looks beyond fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bantayan, one of the three municipalities in Bantayan Island, is the leading producer of yellow corn in Cebu Province and fourth in the country.
The lot where the Bantayan National High School stands was donated by a member of the Escario clan, while the first 18 classrooms were built through the generosity of the Chinese-Filipino businessmen and private individuals.
He added that the Bantayan fishermen are the biggest producers of dried fish in Taboan market, Negros and other parts of the Visayas and Mindanao.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/09/30/feat/bantayan.looks.beyond.fishing.html   (700 words)

  
 Bantayan Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whether snorkeling, windsurfing or playing in the sand, Bantayan has all the ingredients mixed with fun, sun and silicon to be a shining tropical paradise in Asia.
Bantayan island, the shining tropical paradise in Asia is widely known as an island paradise in Philippines.
The island is predominantly Christian, aside from the fact that it seats the oldest church in the Visayas and Mindanao, it is also dubbed as the Lenten capital of the Visayas.
www.dtiro7.net.ph /bantayan.htm   (890 words)

  
 Sea and Sun Inc. Bantayan Island/Cebu
Bantayan Island has always been a favorite place for lovers to escape to.
There is presently a new road project underway to improve the main road that circles the island, which is scheduled to be finished by the latter part of 2000.
Bantayan is the only place in the Philippines where the catholic church has approved the eating of meat on good Friday, because the population eats sea food all year round the eating of meat is considered a special occasion.
members.aol.com /bantayanisland/rebsorten/main.htm   (474 words)

  
 Bantayan Island, Cebu » Philippine Travel Hot Spots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bantayan Island is just one of the 15 islands clustered off the northern point of Cebu Island.
It is renowned for its powder white sands, crystal clear water, especially along the southwest coast and a low-key, laid-back resort with friendly locals.
Bantayan Island is also more than just an island of beaches and rural charms; and an important food source for neighboring islands.
www.yugatech.com /travel/beaches/bantayan-island-cebu   (306 words)

  
 Bantayan Island, Philippines. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
Bantayan Island, just off the northwest coast of Cebu, is quiet and bucolic, a flat arable island, without the moody mountains of mainland Cebu.
From Santa Fe the only means of transport is the trusty tricycle, known on Bantayan as a tricikad, although some resorts will send a representative to meet you if you call in advance.
Santa Fe is on the beach close to the pier where the ferry arrives: the breezy and spacious non-air-con beach cottages are best, sleeping up to three but avoid the rooms in the main building, which are airless and have poor views.
www.hostelbookers.com /guides/philippines/bantayan_island   (646 words)

  
 Traveling the Philippines, a visit to the island of Bantayan close to Cebu
Bantayan is a small island a little North-West of Cebu.
In Bantayan City you can take a look on the local market place and sit down at the harbour just to look at all the people moving around.
From Bantayan we went to Mactan Island, the island in front of Cebu City on which the International airport is located.
home.wanadoo.nl /mekkelmania/Philippines/Bantayan.html   (571 words)

  
 Bantayan Island - Digital Gateway to the Island - DISCOVERING BANTAYAN ISLAND - Island News - News
Bantayan Island, Cebu, Nov. 4, 2001 - While almost everyone has heard about the beaches of Boracay, Palawan and Bohol, not many have heard of Bantayan Island just off the northern coast of the main island of Cebu where nature’s blessings are complemented by the people’s rich culture and a progressive local economy.
Bantayan town also has a four-centuries-old parish church, the first to be built by the Spaniards outside Cebu, very much earlier than the Parish of San Nicolas, Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica del Santo NiƱo.
Bantayan Island is just one of the 15 islands clustered off the northern tip of Cebu Island.
xoops.bantayan.net /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2   (743 words)

  
 Sun.Star Iloilo - Experience the Bantayan Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the dawn of civilization, amidst peace and prosperity, Guimbal, a town in southern Iloilo, was haunted by fear of the undaunted Moro raids.
Originally, the bantayan is made of bamboo built along the shores and stationed guards atop so that they could clearly view vintas from the horizon and warn the people with a drum called guimbal made from a hollowed-out trunk of a palm tree, cut and covered with either goat or deer skin.
Relative to bantayan is the apparition of San Nicolas de Tolentino and of the lady of the Cord, the town's patron and patroness whom natives believed to have saved them from the Moros.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ilo/2003/03/04/life/experience.the.bantayan.festival.html   (545 words)

  
 Bantayan Island
Santa Fe Erected as parish in accordance with a diocesan decree of 7 April 1881, with civil approval of 29 March, Santa Fe took as its titular, the Santo Niño.
It was separated from Bantayan, to which it had been attached as a visita.
Doroteo Andrada del Rosario, parish priest of Bantayan in the 19
www.admu.edu.ph /offices/mirlab/panublion/r7_bantayan2.html   (268 words)

  
 Enchanting holy week on Bantayan island - Cebuprovince.com
The fishermen’s priority is their job, and tourists who need to go to Bantayan have to endure a two-hour wild ride in the open sea.
Bantayan willingly accepts her guests, but she tends not to let them leave that easy.
Most are owned by foreigners who share quite similar stories: They “discover” Bantayan, fall in love with the place, marry a local, and never return to their country.
www.cebuprovince.com /articles.php?article_type_id=1&article_id=6   (966 words)

  
 iSTORYA.NET » Blog Archive » Bantayan Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bantayan Island is an island in the Philippines located at the western portion of the northern tip of Cebu.
Bantayan is an option for those who find Boracay too expensive or too far.
i used to lived in bantayan island… i miss it so much… the clear waters of the beaches and that wonderful white sand… just like heaven and a wonderful place to live in….
www.istorya.net /?p=8   (924 words)

  
 Project Rice: Project Rice on Bantayan Island
My favorite of all my Bantayan Island images, and the backdrop for quoting the needs of the poor Families there, as told to me by Patricia Hudson from the USA, who's been a local resident & respected business owner there since 2004.
In March 2006 I was with Pat when I asked her to access the needs of the poor there, and soon after she began talking, I brought her my notebook and asked her to put it in writing.
I taught for 7 years in Manila and travelled a fair bit; not hard to see where help is needed in many areas, but Bantayan is such a lovely place and I would like to do something useful there...
projectr.nexcess.net /2006/07/project_rice_on_bantayan_islan.html   (720 words)

  
 :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
This is Bantayan Island, a haven for soul-searchers and sun-worshippers and, for a time, Cebu’s best-kept secret.
The name "Bantayan" comes from the watchtowers that were built all over the island in the 17th century to serve as lookout stations warning against attacks of the seaborne Moros.
The roots of Bantayan town as a Hispanic settlement are unmistakably stamped in its layout, with the old church and its plaza located in the center, and the houses and other establishments built around it.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/04/19/TOUR2005041932963.html   (584 words)

  
 Bantayan Island
Bantayan Island is made up of quaint rural manicipalities striving to keep up with the 21st century.
The beach property lies within 2 kilometer expanse of irresistible white sand forming lagoons.
Bantayan is located on the Visayan Sea off the Northwestern tip of cebu.
www.philresorts.com /Islands/bantayan.asp   (269 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos from adlaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The beachfront beckons with the promise of paradise...
I wish that years from now I will have a place beside the beach where I could wake up to something...
bantayan island - group pic at the entrance of ogtong cave
flickr.com /photos/adlaw/page104   (164 words)

  
 Bantayan Beach Vacation Guide
There's not much to see or do at Bantayan Island, just off the northwest coast of Cebu, but this is precisely why people come here - just to lie on its beaches or laze for a few days at one of its sleepy little resorts.
Ferries from Cebu arrive at the island's capital Bantayan, also the departure point for ferries to Negros.
Most of the island's resorts and beaches are concentrated in the pretty town of Santa Fe on the island's southeast coast.
www.beach-vacation-guide.com /philippines-bantayan.html   (167 words)

  
 Garces Real Estate :: Featured Property - Islet in Bantayan Island
Featured P. An Islet in Bantayan Island, northern part of Cebu containing an area of 113,434.37 sq.m.
The owner originally designed the island as a golf course with some minor development already but settle down to sell the islet to person / people who envisioned of living close to nature and dreams of owning an island.
To people whom thinks that owning an island is expensive but in reality, very affordable piece of property that can be a golden treasure.
www.garcesrealestate.com /fp03.html   (191 words)

  
 Daanbantayan, Cebu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Every year, Daanbantayan celebrates the Kandaya Festival which is in honor of Datu Daya, the legendary founder of the town.
The name Daanbantayan was derived from two words: the word "Daan" (which means "old" in the Cebuano language, and the word "Bantayan" which refers to a place that served as a "look-out-station" for Moro raiders before the Spaniards obtained control.
The original site of the town might have been located at an elevated vantage point near Punta which is situated near Tapilon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daanbantayan,_Cebu   (756 words)

  
 Bantayan Island Budget Hotels | Bantayan Island Cheap Hotels, Philippines
Bantayan Island Budget Accommodation > [ Budget Hotels ]
Sorry, we couldn't find any available Budget Hotels for those dates in Bantayan Island.
You could try different dates or try one of the alternative accommodation types.
www.travellerspoint.com /budget-hotels-en-ci-106.html   (77 words)

  
 Cebu Pictures Gallery - Bantayan
Bantayan – 109 viewsFacilities at Jegra John Resort.
Bantayan – 88 viewsFacilities at Jegra John Resort.
Bantayan – 76 viewsFacilities at Jegra John Resort.
www.ngkhai.net /cebupics/thumbnails.php?album=30   (200 words)

  
 Bantayan Resorts - AllTravelCebu.com - resorts on Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines - Santa Fe...
Bantayan Resorts - AllTravelCebu.com - resorts on Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines - Santa Fe...
Bantayan Resorts - Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines - resorts, lodging, tours, Santa Fe...
The town of Bantayan is the largest town on the island with the same name.
www.alltravelcebu.com /hotels/bantayan/index.htm   (179 words)

  
 Bantayan Nightlife - Reviews, Tips, Photos - VirtualTourist.com
Reviews and photos of Bantayan bars and nightclubs posted by real travelers and Bantayan locals.
We were expecting that Bantayan is a peaceful and quite town, but to our surprise (and disappointment), our 2-nights stay in Bantayan is bothered by activities at the barangay near Maia's resort.
Directions: On the way to the Bantayan Port you'll pass by this bar.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Philippines/Province_of_Cebu/Bantayan-1409430/Nightlife-Bantayan-BR-1.html   (231 words)

  
 Bantayan Island - Island of Plenty
A US serviceman was convicted of raping a Filipina.
"BAG-ONG HAON" ang radyo baktas sa Bantayan Island by Riza
How do you devise a plan so that POLITICIANS will have more accountability to their public?
www.bantayan.net   (54 words)

  
 Our Awesome Planet: [Bantayan+Malapascua #1] A Beach Love Affair...
You have two options: take the fast craft which would cost you P100 and a terminal fee of P10 (less than an hour to Bantayan), or the ordinary ferries which would take you to Bantayan for almost an hour or so.
Fe, Bantayan port, this is the scene that would welcome you.
So be prepared, and it is really suggested that you act as local cebuanos on a vacation -- so its a plus if you have someone who knows how to speak the dialect.
anton.blogs.com /awesome/2006/02/bantayanmalapas.html   (1331 words)

  
 Municipality of Bantayan
PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES and MATERIALS FOR THE REPAIR OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS AT KABANGBANG and KAMPINGGANON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BANTAYAN DISTRICT 2
IT EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR THE OFFICES OF THE MAYOR, BUDGET, ACCOUNTANT, POLICE, SB SECRETARY, SUPERVISORS OF BANTAYAN DITRICT 1 AND 2
LANDSCAPING OF THE BANTAYAN SPORTS and CULTURAL CENTER
www.bantayan.gov.ph /bac.htm   (172 words)

  
 Travel stories from Bantayan, Philippines
Aklan, Bantayan, Bantayan Island, Bohol, Bohol Island, Camiguin Island, Cebu, Cebu City, Iloilo City, Linapacan, Makati, Malapascua Island, Manila, Moalboal, Pagsanjan, Palawan, Panay, Panay Island, Panglao Island, Sorsogon, Tagaytay City, Vigan.
As a member you'll have access to your own free online travel journal into which you can upload your Bantayan stories and pictures.
Environmental Feedback Marine Resources Status worldwide It was published in Science Magazine and reported in the CNN & BBC World news last November 3, 2006...
www.traveljournals.net /stories/philippines/bantayan   (88 words)

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