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The Farm at San Benito
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Located in an exceptional healing environment, The Farm at San Benito rests on 119 acres in the foothills of Mount Malarayat. Guests enjoy year-round tropical weather and the comforts of a world-class resort while discovering paths to a healthier and happier lifestyle. Programs are supervised by on-site Integrated medical physicians and licensed therapists, movement consultants and live-in chefs. Experience the miraculous healing hands and caring hearts for which Filipinos are known.
Consistently recognised as one of the few truly integrated medical and wellness resorts in the world by leading publications and sophisticated travellers, this award-winning resort in Batangas, Philippines offers complete immersion into healthy and mindful living.
Dedicated to the promotion of overall health and wellbeing, The Farm specialises in “wellness holidays” or “healing retreats”. A specialty retreat is the performance enhancement program—a powerful, week-long experience designed to help one make positive lasting lifestyle changes through integrative wellness methods.
The Farm’s team of professionals creates a personalised plan to improve one’s physical-emotional health, spiritual vitality, fitness and movement, nutrition, and stress management. Other expertise includes treatment of lifestyle related diseases such as digestive disorders, weight loss, diabetes, infertility, arthritis, hypertension, and other chronic degenerative diseases. Each program is designed to be specific to the individual to achieve optimal health and recovery.
The resort’s Salus Per Aquam SPA, offers an extensive menu of treatments ranging from nurturing asian treatments and massages that incorporate signature Filipino healing methods. All products are handmade fresh for each treatment, 100 percent natural and organic. The Farm, itself, produces a number of ingredients used for the treatments including fresh coconut milk, virgin coconut oil, coffee and cocoa.
The Farm’s award-winning rejuvenating cuisine features freshly harvested ingredients from the resort’s organic garden. It has a high nutritional value that is energising, beautifying, detoxifying and age defying.
Additional on-site amenities include three swimming pools, a boutique, library, meeting hall, working organic gardens, open-air yoga amphitheatre, and a gym. With just 24 rooms, privacy and personalised service are guaranteed in this picturesque setting.
Guide to Luzon & Manila
Northern Luzon is rich in panoramic views, green landscapes and old Spanish houses. Nicknamed the summer capital, Baguio City is a cool climate escape for Manila’s wealthy. The Neighbouring city of La Trinidad, the provincial capital just north of the city, has some interesting sights. You can visit the vegetable market, climb Mt Pulong or see the well-preserved Kabayan mummies from burial caves in the north.
Visit Asin, a woodcarving village with a hot spring swimming hole, natural streams and relaxing steam bath. A side trip to the tranquil mountaintop town of Sagada offers beautiful scenery and a cool climate. It claim to fame is the hanging coffins, seen on cliff sides surrounding the town and in limestone caves.
Hugging the north-western slopes of Luzon are the provincial towns of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur. There is a strong Spanish influence in Vigan Ilocos Sur, with 16th century Spanish houses lining the streets of the old section and a museum full of Spanish treasures.
Antipolo is the centre of the May-time pilgrimage, while Angono is home to the Higantes Festival, held in November, when gigantic papier-mache figures of men and women are paraded down the streets.
In northern Palawan, El Nido has towering black limestone cliffs where swiftlets build their nests in caves. The edible nests are highly prized as the principal ingredient in nido soup, a delicacy in Chinese restaurants.
A couple of hours by boat from El Nido are the snorkelling havens of Simisu Island and Cathedral Cave, Snake Island and Cudugman Cave. South Palawan is quite different to the north. Quezon is situated around 100 kilometres from Puerto Princesa, and is the nearest town to the archeologically interesting Tabon Caves (a half-hour boat ride away). Quezon is famous for its Pahiyas Festival, celebrated in the towns of Lucban and Sariaya in mid-May.
Manila has a population of around 10 million. The city is a mix of old and new, of traditions and modern customs, of quaint street stalls and modern shopping malls, excellent museums and happening restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
Although the city spreads a great distance along Manila Bay, the main places of interest are fairly central, concentrated just south of the Pasig River. Immediately south is the fortress of Intramuros (literally ‘within the walls’), once the preserve of the ruling classes.
The Manila Cathedral and San Augustin Church are two of the oldest churches in the country. Nearby, Casa Manila is a beautifully restored Spanish colonial home. The Cultural Centre of the Philippines is the central venue for all the diverse arts of the provinces, including ballet, concerts and stage plays. Within the complex is the stately Coconut Palace, made of materials from the coconut tree and other indigenous materials. This is also a great place to view the spectacular sunset across Manila Bay.
At the huge Chinese Cemetery in Santa Cruz, tombs are fitted with crystal chandeliers, air-conditioning, kitchens and flushing toilets, to ensure comfort on the trip to paradise.