April is Manggahan Festival in the scenic island-province of Guimaras, 15 minutes away by motor boat from Iloilo City. The annual festival calls the world's attention to the most popular produce of the province - export-quality sweet mangoes. Beyond the sweet mangoes, the Manggahan Festival also showcases the best of the fiestas of the province's municipalities and barangays, most of these beautifully blending agro-fisheries productivity, tourism and ecology -good reasons why the peaceful island-province has reaped a number of citations for tourism development. Moreover, the Manggahan Festival is an annual reminder that tourists, foreign and domestic, need not go far to find the ideal place for relaxation and fun. Guimaras is just nearby, offering not only its sweet mangoes but also its fine beaches, inland resorts, nature camps, coves and caves, diving areas, shrines/monastery, heritage/historical sites, and its sweet, smiling people.
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