The Department of Public Works and Highways has completed the second phase of the construction of an access road that leads to the hidden Pinipisakan Falls in San Jorge, Samar.<\/p>\n
Funded under the 2023 Tourism Road Infrastructure Program (TRIP), the PHP48.95 million road project will make the waterfalls accessible to tourists, DPWH-Samar 1st District Engineering Office chief Raulito Yangzon said in a phone interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The construction began in February and was completed last week.<\/p>\n
Yangzon said the second phase project covers the construction of a road that is 800 meters in length and 6.1 meters wide, as well as the paving of the road shoulders.<\/p>\n
The DPWH also installed seven meters of reinforced concrete pipe culverts and built a 45-meter slope protection.<\/p>\n
In 2022, the DPWH completed the PHP4.65 million first phase of the road project, also funded by TRIP. The project covered the paving of 546 meters of a two-lane road.<\/p>\n
Yangzon said he is still unsure how many more phases would be needed to complete the entire 9.9-km. road stretch from Blanca Aurora to Bay-ang villages as work depends on budget allotment from the national government.<\/p>\n
The first two phases of the multi-year project have just opened and concreted 1.34 km. of road.<\/p>\n
Before the road pavement, Pinipisakan Falls could only be reached through a three-hour motorboat ride and hiking.<\/p>\n
Pinipisakan is a four-tiered waterfall cascading down from a cave in the forest deep in the jungles of San Jorge, Samar. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Department of Public Works and Highways completes second phase of the Pinipisakan Falls access road, making the hidden gem in San Jorge, Samar more accessible to tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}