Lucban, quezon - a water city. Every drain and ditch is filled with moving water, all from the surrounding mountains, running down the slopes. And it's typhoon - season, egay has just left, falcon already reared it rainy head, the water rushes into the town like nobody's business. Lucban also is a clean and tidy city, compared with a lot of cities and towns in the philippines, and even other cleaner places in the other countries. clean, not much rubbish around, no faul smell of rotten garbage around the corners or at the back streets. Tidy, as its layout is simply a matrix of horizontal and vertical streets, like some well planned subdivision. It's also an enegrtic and closely knit town, with the streets measured only two-car-lane wide, everything is next to one another. With people in every street, it also exudes a lively atmosphere. It's a green town, plastic bags are banned here. Moreover it's a haggle-free town, prices of all shops are uniformly fixed, no bargain, no discounts, esp on the product they are famous for, longanisa. lucban also produces a lot of pineapples from the farms nearby, very juicy and tasty type - like the sarawak pineapple. the market is full of activities, buying, selling, people walking, taking jeepeys, driving cars, motors.....
they put up one night in a hotel(only one?) in the town centre and had a very good tour of this somewhat very-normal but very-well-kept town.
and the people - very peaceful, that's why itchie the property agent said, "DON't worry. there's no NPA - new people's army, here."
he likes the town - a place of peace and good sense.
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