{"id":4913,"date":"2017-05-28T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T01:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2017-05-26T18:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:59:20","slug":"malinta-tunnel-in-corregidor-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/05\/28\/malinta-tunnel-in-corregidor-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Malinta Tunnel in Corregidor Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Malinta Tunnel<\/strong> used to be a bomb shelter during the World War II. When it was dug in 1922, they found lots of leeches, which is why they baptized it with that name, \u201cMalinta\u201d, meaning \u201clots of leeches.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4915\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0880.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0880.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0880-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0880-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4916\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0865.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0865.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0865-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_0865-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">P200 is charged upon entrance for the Lights and Sound Presentation&#8211;an illustrated documentary of the World War II events. During the tour, you\u2019ll get to see the works scripted by National Artist and film director Lamberto Avellana, and sculptures made by National Artist Napoleon Abueva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It is said that the American took 10 years to build the tunnel, which spans 835 feet long, and 24 feet wide. During the siege of Corregidor, General Macarthur set up the headquarters of USAFFE inside the tunnel where men and women could live and work. It is also designed to house huge quantity of ammunition, food, supplies, and an underground hospital with a 1,000-bed capacity. When you traverse through the dark and eerie tunnel, you\u2019ll get to notice some bomb-damaged portion of the laterals, untouched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Aside from that, this tunnel also served as the seat of the Philippine Commonwealth Government under President Manuel L. Quezon, and inauguration also took place for their second term at the tunnel\u2019s west entrance in 1941.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tunnel in Corregidor Island is full of history&#8230; and mystery, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corregidor","category-historical","category-nature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}