The country’s highest bridge in Southern Leyte is now also the Philippines’ newest tourist attraction, specifically for brave souls who can bungee-jump 30 stories down from the 90-meter high bridge.
The Agas-Agas Bridge, which President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo will inaugurate Sunday, straddles between two mountains and traverses along the Mahaplag-Sogod section of the Tacloban-Liloan Road.
It provides a significant link to motorists traveling from Luzon to Mindanao.
But seeing its high tourism potential, Public Works and Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. submitted to the President a plan to turn the P1,024,000 billion bridge into a haven for sports enthusiasts who are into bungee jumping, paramotor, downhill skateboarding and zipline rapelling and other extreme sports.
“It has a natural tourist attraction and the way the bridge is constructed is very modern,” Ebdane said of the bridge project constructed by Philippine-Japan Highway Loan – Project Monitoring Office. (more…)
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