Monday, 15 February 2016

Hundred Islands, Pangasinan

- Hundred Islands National Park is a group of Islands with 124 islands at low tide and 123 at high tide scattered along the Lingayen Gulf located in the Alaminos City, Pangasinan.

It covers an area of 18.44 square km (4,557 acres) and believed to be about 20 million years old. Some of the islands are actually have the peculiar “mushroom”-like shapes.

What made it on the list of the best nature spots in the Philippines is that it is wildlife and a home of the following animals. These are monitor lizards, crab-eating macaque, dugong, fraser’s dolphin, common palm civet, laticauda colubrina, olive ridley, green sea turtle, species of red turtle, gecko, various bat species and rodent species.

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