Bangui Windmills: Look up and watch them turn!

When you are on an Ilocos tour, Bangui Windmills is always part of the itinerary. It is located at Bangui Ilocos Norte and considered as Southeast Asia's biggest turbines. There are 20 giant windmills which looks like electric fans facing the West Philippine Sea. Through the efforts of the Marcoses, these windmills are renewable energy sources and helps reduce the greenhouses gases that causes global warming. Each turbines has the capacity to generate a maximum of 1.65 megawatts.

Bangui Windmills

The turbines stand approximately 70 meters high from the ground and each blade is 41 meters long.  

Bangui Windmills 

the group

making of Bangui Windmills souvenir items

Bangui Windmills souvenir item

It became a famous tourist spot because it is the only windmill farm in the Philippines. But right now, Guimaras province is also starting a windmill project which will also be a next tourist destination. As Filipinos, we should be proud that we have these windmills. Worth going especially if you are with your group of friends!