PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan -- Viva Europa 2018, which is showcasing Europe's culture and heritage this month in Palawan, will highlight the event on April 27 with a bike tour in northern Palawan that will be joined by all European Union (EU) and member-state ambassadors.
The Provincial Information Office (PIO) under information officer Gil Acosta Jr. said in a release Thursday that the bike tour, dubbed “Sikad Palawan,” wishes to promote bicycling as an “illustration of a healthy and climate-friendly lifestyle.”
The envoys will go on a bike tour from El Nido through the municipalities of Taytay and Roxas, and finally, to Puerto Princesa, spanning 200 kilometers from April 27-28, 2018.
Alongside the bike tour, the diplomats will reportedly meet with local communities and representatives of the business sector in Palawan.
The ambassadors in the EU delegation to the Philippines who will join the bike tour are Ambassadors Franz Jessen of EU and his family, Michel Goffin of Belgium and his family, Gordon Kricke of Germany; and the Charge d' Affaires of the Embassy of France, Laurent Legodec and of the Embassy of Romania, Mihai Sion.
"Sikad Palawan" is considered as an offshoot of the Padyak Para sa Kalikasan (Bike for Nature), a yearly bike tour to Irawan watershed in Puerto Princesa held at the sides of the Cine Europa.
Last year Jessen with other ambassadors of EU member-states signed a manifesto of support to the provincial government of Palawan in raising environmental awareness. (PNA)
