{"id":5765,"date":"2017-09-07T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:12:21","slug":"balanga-nature-and-wetland-park-in-bataan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/09\/07\/balanga-nature-and-wetland-park-in-bataan\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanga Nature and Wetland Park in Bataan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Everything seems serene when you see birds fly\u2014and what better way to get such amazing scenery than to head over to<strong> Balanga Nature and Wetland Park<\/strong>\u00a0located in Tortugas, one of the three villages in Balanga City, Bataan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5776\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6472-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6472-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6472-1-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6472-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6472-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Balanga Nature and Wetland Park is a perfect place to do bird watching.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Balanga Nature and Wetland Park is the perfect place to do bird watching while having a picnic with friends. This place is one of the favorite stopovers of the migratory birds from countries like Canada and China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5777\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6564.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6564-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6564-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6564-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Birds in nature make a refreshing sight.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Balanga City\u2019s thick mangrove forest, wetlands, grasslands, and mudflats have provided a nature food basket, making it one of the archipelago\u2019s most populated bird sites. With at least 35 species and 15 families of birds recorded, it is one of the country\u2019s bird watching havens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5780\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6470.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6470.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6470-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6470-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/IMG_6470-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Nature is everywhere.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you happen to be in Bataan, the best time for bird watching would be early in the morning or late in the afternoon. There are view decks and huts that can provide a better view. You may even take a long walk or read a book while enjoying the tranquility of the place complemented by the chirping of the birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>How to go there:<\/strong>\u00a0If you are commuting from Balanga, ride a tricycle and tell the driver to take you to Balanga Wetland. It will cost you around P15 each person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds in nature is a refreshing sight at Balanga Nature and Wetland Park!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47,69,453,682,64,71],"tags":[214,452,687,688,689],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amusement-theme","category-park","category-animal-park","category-feature-of-month","category-bataan-and-corregidor-2017","category-nature","category-tourist-spot","tag-bataan","tag-birdwatching","tag-balanga-city","tag-balanga-nature-and-wetland-park","tag-nature-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","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=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5782,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}