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Balangay Shrine Museum

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:54:19

Towards the airport, at barangay Libertad, is the Balangay Shrine Museum, home to the remains of a balangay (seagoing outrigger boat) dating from 321, one of the oldest-known artefacts in the Philippines. (The word ‘barangay’ in fact derives from balangay, as the boats were big enough to move whole communities of settlers in one journey.) Unearthed a few metres away are several coffins dating to the 13th and 14th centuries. A tricycle (P50) will take you to the site.