Damires
Hills Tierra Verde in Barangay Damires, Janiuay, Iloilo has been a popular
rural escape for many city folks. It has a good range of quality farm resort accommodation
to choose from. With Farmtourism in this
area of the province being particularly popular, it has maintained much of its natural
charm, a charm you will find abundant in this welcoming farm resort.
Visitors
can get that “remoteness feel” with its neighboring towns, its distinctive local accent, an abundance of clean,
cool air, homely traditional dishes and the overall warmth and friendliness of
the people.
Farmtourism
is getting popular for the province, with farm holidays spent in Damires Hills Tierra
Verde being especially fashionable. It was, and is, farming municipality after
all and it became a nice example of how tourism do not eat up traditional
industries, given the right environment and the right type of tourist it can
fit in fairly seamlessly to what is already there. So despite the tourism boom
for the province, the resort seems to get it right, and accordingly standards are
very competitive. Quality and comfort in some really authentic, peaceful rural
settings.
The
stay to its rolling hills approximately measuring 40 hectares where 16 hectares
were developed to facilitate tidy little cottages and accommodation units and
areas for leisure that are such an antidote to the stresses of the city.
The
area has 33 rooms all in all. Its newly-opened Heliconia Hotel houses 20
standard rooms good for double or triple occupancies with free breakfast for
two. The view is mainly hilly and green, everything is tidy and clean with
well-tended farmlands with patches or pretty little villages. It has eight (8)
family-style rooms that can accommodate to a maximum of 8 persons per room and
five (5) additional garden standard rooms to a maximum of three occupants per
room inclusive of breakfast for two persons.
With
open cottages being possibly the most popular choice, you will find that the personnel
here have a long and well- deserved reputation for looking after visitors and
guests and are unlikely to be disappointed. It has three (3) big open cottages
for a maximum of 40 persons, consumable for food and drinks and 15 more for a
maximum of 15 persons per cottage, consumable for food and drinks. Thee
cottages are positioned on a beautifully serene area of rolling hills and
meadowland.
There
are many things to do in the area. Visitors will surely enjoy swimming to its
adult infinity pool and kiddie pools. For the adventurous in spirit, dare the
canopy walk suspended 214 feet above the ground with a length of 218 meters. Or
try its two-stationed zip-line with 375 meters on its first station and another
180 meters to its last station. Ride
around the hilly terrain of the resort in ATVs with 10 units available. The
area also has a hiking trail on its rolling hills and woodlands.
From
Damires Hills Terra Verda, this municipality is steeped in Iloilo’s history. It
has many points of interest to the tourist, the ruins of the old St. Julian
Parish, Janiuay Catholic Cemetery, Baraslon Cave and to name but a few, but
those that stop over and on a countryside drive from the city are missing out
on the joy of a drive across few more farm resorts in neighboring
municipalities with beautifully peaceful areas of gentle hills and green fields
that attracts city dwellers.
Your
farmstay in Damires Hills is generally somewhat a bit of upmarket affair, and
you can expect excellent service and hotel comforts but at something of a
premium. For more information, please call (033) 3968144/ 5316519 or at
09399060689/ 09176325901. For city bookings at the Ground floor of Carmelita
Building, Quezon Street with telephone numbers (033) 3369670/ 3373882. You may
also email them at damireshills.71@gmail.com
or like them at Facebook at www.damireshills.com
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