CLARK FREEPORT—Endowed with rich natural resources, Capas town in Tarlac is looking for investors who can develop its three waterfalls and make it the tourist capital of Central Luzon.
Marissa V. Vital, a municipal tourism officer, said the three waterfalls covered by ancestral domain are located in Sitios Culut and Cuadra both in barangay Sta. Juliana, which is the jumping point for Mt.Pinatubo trekkers
Vital said both local and foreign investors are invited as the local government is not in a financial position to develop the falls into first class tourist spots. The other tourists spots in the municipality were developed by the Koreans.
In the past six years, the area was not developed by the Department of Tourism as it concentrated more on seminars instead of improving the sites, some stakeholders said.
One tourist destination of this first class municipality 100 kilometers north of Manila is the 35-hectare Tambo Lake, a former rice field turned into a lake after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. It is a good spot for free fishing, picnics, zipline, jetski and other water sports.
Its historical sites include the Capas National Shire, Kilometer 106, a train line that transported the America and Filipino death march victims from San Fernando,Pampanga to Capas during the Japanese occupation of Manila; crocodile farms, the Capas Death March Monument, hot springs, Tarukan Vilega, an aeta village, spas, and many other attractions.
Vital said in all these tourist spots, the local government collect only a P50 admission fee.
per tourists except when employing natives in the area.
To better serve the Pinatubo trekkers, Vital said, they developed a better business relationship with the local officials of Botolan, Zambales.