Talk:Cuenca, Batangas

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Cuenca can be one of the beautiful places in Batangas that is most visited by people. If you haven't heard of the Mt. Makulot...well, It was once featured in ABS-CBN's Sport's unlimited or could ask the mountaineers as well as those devotees. What's in that moutain? There is a big white cross on it and before you get there, you will pass the fourteen stations which represents the station of the cross. This mountain is mostly visited during Holy Week. Instead of doing the traditional station of the cross in the church, they do it in the mountain and I believe that it can also be a sign of sacrifice. People in different places and of different age gather there during that season to pray, to sacrifice, and maybe they also find it as an adventure. Even if it is not Holy Week, there are also a lot of people who are visiting this mountain. Most of them are mountaineers. They're not there just to visit the white cross but they are also there to find their adventure. They go further top of the mountain. There is a history in that mountain about a love triangle. A young girl was seen dead down the mountain. According to the rumors, either she was pushed or she really jumped from the top. It was perhaps a cause of jealousy. There were no more terrible stories after that incident maybe because the policy that the Municipal of Cuenca has made helped a lot. Before, everybody are allowed to hike in the mountain without the Municipal's concern but now, they provided a policy that everybody must first get a permit before they go to the mountain or else..I think there is a punishment (I'm not really sure about the punishment thing but I'm sure that you must first let the Municipal know that you're going to the mountain). This is just a one spot that can be seen in Cuenca, others include the what they called "lumampao" wherein you need to pass the 500 steps stairs before you get there and once you are in there, you can say that it is worthy because you can do a lot of things down there: just like, fishing, boating and others.

Also here in Cuenca is the only place in the Philippines were you can find an active church which is below general level. you need to go few steps down just to get in to the church's entrance. You can find that in a barangay Ibabao,Here in Cuenca. Tourist or visitors who uses this church as a land mark, Why? if you were taking a public transportaion and needs to get in Ibabao, All you have to do is tell the bus or jeepney driver is "mama sa may simbahang lubog po"(I'm getting off at the sunken church.)Guaranteed, you'll never be lost. Ibabao is also famous for being one of the biggest FIESTA fanatic people. They celebrate BIG! They celebrate it every 22nd of April, But Once the calendar hits April, People here starts to decorate the streets and build a concert stage along the Hi-way. Once you visited this place, you'll say "Masarap pala sa IBABAO" (It's nice here in IBABAO)

Cuenca is also known as the "Home of the Bakers" simply because they make the most delicious and different kinds of breads some of these were: "kababayan", "tiping", "pasensiya", "pandesal", "monay", and a lot more. It's not only breads that were the best foods of Cuenca. You can also love their "putos" or rice cakes, "dinuguan", "goto", and a lot more. These were just some but for sure they have more.

Punchline for this is..."It is really worthy visiting this place!!!" "Promise!" -jbl

Hi there and thanks for message above. If you think this will be constructive in the article, please put it there and not here in its talk page. Kampfgruppe (talk) 13:38, 16 December 2008 (UTC)