San Juanico Strait

(Filipino:Kipot ng San Juanico) is a narrow strait in the Philippines. It separates the islands of Samar and Leyte, and connects the Carigara Bay (Samar Sea) with the San Pedro Bay (Leyte Gulf). It is about 38 kilometres (24 mi) long, and at its narrowest point, the strait is only 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) wide, said to be the narrowest strait in the world.

San Juanico Bridge is part of the Pan-Philippine Highway and stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss design. With a total length of 2.16 kilometers (1.34 mi),^[1] it is the longest bridge in the Philippines spanning a body of seawater.

The bridge was heavily damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013 but repaired.

The MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park 

(also known as the Leyte Landing Memorial Park and MacArthur Park) is a protected area of the Philippines that commemorates the historic landing of General Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944. This event led to the largest naval battle of World War II and Japan's eventual defeat and surrender after almost three years. The war memorial is located in the municipality of Palo on Leyte island in Eastern Visayas and is one of the region's major tourist attractions. It was declared a national park on 12 July 1977 through Letter of Instructions No. 572 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos.

Near the intrance of Sohotan Caves in Sihotan, Basey, Samar

Sohoton Caves, or more appropriately, the Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park is situated at Rawis, Brgy. Guirang in Basey, Samar.

Samar & Leyte Islands

  

Samar-Leyte Islands

            The islands of Leyte and Samar are communally known as the Eastern Visayas Region VIII, comprising of six provinces such as: Samar (25 towns with Catbalogan as capital), Northern Samar (24 towns with Catarman as capital), Leyte (41 towns with Tacloban as the capital), Southern Leyte (18 towns with Maasin as the capital) and Biliran (8 towns with Naval as the capital). The regional capital is the City of Tacloban, where the regional offices of all government institutions are situated. Eastern Visayas has a total land area of 21,561.8 sq. km.

          Leyte is an island in the eastern Philippines, neighboring Samar Island. It is coated with abundantly wooded mountains. Most of the crops grewn in its fertile valleys are coconuts, rice, sugarcane and hemps. There are two provinces which devide the island: Leyte Province and Southern Leyte Province. The island's total area is 7,200 sq. km (2,800sq.mi).

          Samar Island is seperated on the northwest from the island of Luzon by San Bernardino Strait and Leyte on the south by San Juanico Stait and Leyte Gulf. Agricultural products are mainly rice, hemp, coconuts and sweet potatoes. Catbalogan  on the west coast is the major city. Samar Island has an area of 13,100 sq km (5,100 sq mi).