Capiz | Pan-ay River,Sta.Monica Church & Bell & Baybay Beach

The province of Capiz is located on the northern part of Panay Island in Western Visayas. This place popularly known for Aswang. Aside from aswang this province is also the birthplace of President Manuel Roxas. Its capital Roxas City is named after the late president. This also dubbed as the seafood capital of the Philippines.

As part of my #ikotPinas project straight from my vacation in my hometown Iloilo going back to Manila I decided to drop by this province. 

Pan-ay River lies in the middle of the city. This is one of the cleanest rivers in the country. Panay River, which has given the City of Roxas the moniker as "City by the Sea," is a 152-kilometer waterway that starts from Tapaz town, passing through several municipalities and Roxas City. It empties itself into the Tinagond Dagat Bay in Pontevedra town.

Sta. Monica Church and Bell in Pan-ay town is established in 1572. It was heavily damaged by typhoon and restored in 1884. The bell of the church is the largest in Asia. It is made of seventy sacks of coins from the donation of townspeople. It measures seven feet in diameter, five feet in height and weighs 10,400 kilograms. This church is declared as a national historical landmark.

Baybay beach is about 3 kilometers north of downtown Roxas. It’s near the airport. This 7 kilometers brown-sand beach is lined with restaurants that served delicious and incredibly cheap seafoods.

I stayed at Halaran Plaza Hotel.

How to get there:

From Manila budget airlines have daily flight to Roxas. Frequent buses/airconvans from Iloilo runs to Roxas. (P146.00/3 hours.) From Kalibo only aircon vans are bound for Roxas City (P120.00/2 hours). Tricycles are mode of transportation with the city and nearby Pan-ay town.