Tacloban City is known now a days because of the historic landing of General Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944. Tacloban City is also known because of the tragedy that happened on 8 November 2013, the city was largely destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan(Bagyong Yolanda), having previously suffered similar destruction and loss of life but despite of the wrecks that happened they manage to stand up and made the wrecks a beauty and a memory. This is what I saw when I went there in Tacloban City, the M/V Eva Jocelyn Shrine, the memorial marker of the typhoon Yolanda’s blow in Tacloban City.The local government left this remnant of the ship as a reminder of the tragedy in this residential area. It’s been a while but I can still feel the peoples sadness. Also one of their tourist attraction was the San Juanico Bridge which is longest bridge in the Philippines. It measures about 2200 meters long.
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