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Plan a sight-seeing tour of Morong-Bataan and its neighboring places because during your stay in Sunsetview Beach Resort, you have the opportunity to explore tourist attractions and the historical places such as the notably known Pawikan Sanctuary, the Bataan Technology Park, the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Dambana ng Kagitingan-Mt.Samat, the nearby SUBIC Ocean Adventure, Zoobic Safari, Jungle Environmental Survival Training Camp (JEST Camp), and so much more. So, when you sense the need to tour the places of your interest apart from assured enjoyable stay at the resort, our staff can assist and guide you arrange a number of rewarding tours.
Besides its scenic beaches, Morong-Bataan, is notably known as the site of the community-based Pawikan Conservation Program located in Barangay Nagbalayong. Many tourists go to this sanctuary during the nesting season and especially during the Pawikan Festival to witness turtles come up to seashore at night to lay their eggs. The Pawikan Festival, which is an annual celebration of the endangered Pawikan or Sea Turtles, is usually held at the end of November up to the beginning of December in Morong, Bataan. This duration is more or less coincides with the hatching season of the baby pawikan in the Pawikan Conservation Center.
The weeklong festivity is highlighted by a ceremonial releasing of Pawikan hatchlings into the waters off South China Sea , street dancing competition where the participants are dressed in turtle-like clothing, walk for a cause, trade fair, beach volleyball, sand castling contest, coastal clean-up project, and other beach activities.The Festival aims to draw awareness for the pawikan and its nesting site in Morong, Bataan.
The Bataan Technology Park, a 365 hectare of land along the rolling hills of the Morong Special Economic Zone in Bataan overlooking the South China Sea, is the former site of the United Nations Philippine Refugee Processing Center which existed from 1980 to 1994. This Techno Park, now a tourism, leisure and retirement park, maintains and preserves the symbolic monuments and shrines constructed by the refugees including the boat used by the refugees in their escape is also in the park’s museum.
The Philippines’ first shrine of the Blessed Pope John Paul II was also built and inaugurated (May 2011) in the actual site of the Techno Park where the late pointiff held a mass in 1981 before a mixed crowd of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees.