Lemery

Lemery is a major municipality in Batangas. It is a commercial center for the eastern portion of western Batangas. The town lies to the west of the heritage town of Taal, with the boundary along the Pansipit River; the river area was part of the sea until it was buried by tephra deposits from the 1755 eruption of Taal Volcano.

Understand

Lemery is largely a commercial center, with most shopping options found here. It also has more available accommodation than Taal, with a few sights around. Along with Taal, Lemery forms a minor metropolitan area, constituting the eastern commercial center for western Batangas (the others are Balayan and Nasugbu).

The town is named after the Spanish Governor-General Jose Lemery e Ibarrola Ney.

Orientation

Lemery is a large municipality, including rural areas to the north, on the foot of Mount Batulao. Commercial activity is found in the Poblacion, rather divided into smaller barangays for administrative purposes, and approximately bordered by the Palanas and Pansipit rivers. Resorts and accommodations are found to the west of Poblacion. The rural area to the north houses Leisure Farms and Fantasy World.

Get in

Get around

See

San Roque Parish Church

• 🌍 Fantasy World, Km 78 Diokno Highway, Masayang. 300-hectare (740-acre) theme park, though incomplete and currently closed to the public. It has been once used in some local fantasy-themed television dramas in the 2000s. This is, however, a common stopover for picture-taking by tourists travelling from Tagaytay to Taal. (updated Nov 2018)
• 🌍 Casa Corazon Motorcycle Museum, National Highway, Sinisian (Near the boundary with Calaca). (updated Jan 2019)
• Lemery Church
• Holy Cross Parish, Bucal-Matingain

Do

• Sigpawan Festival -Celebrated during Easter Sunday, the festival's highlight is the Fluvial procession along coastal areas of the town. The festival showcases the rich culture and natural resources of Lemery, with booths displaying a variety of the town's agricultural products, native delicacies and its well-known sinaing na tulingan. Sigpaw is a small net with a handle that is used by fishermen to scoop fish and catch shrimps and small fry along the towns shorelines. Farmers also use it to pick fruits from trees.
• Leisure Farms, Diokno Highway, Payapa Ibaba (14-minute drive from Poblacion). the first hobby farming community and agro-tourism site in the Philippines. (updated Nov 2018)

Buy

• 🌍 Xentro Mall Lemery, National Highway, Malinis, ☎ [phone]. 10:00-9:00. First major mall in town. Has a Robinsons supermarket, and hotel beside it (see #Sleep). (updated Dec 2018)
• 🌍 SM Center Lemery, Ilustre Street (Beside Metro Lemery Medical Center), ☎ [phone]. 10:00-21:00. Opened in 2017. Has a SM Hypermarket, Watson's and fast food chains. (updated Dec 2018)
• 🌍 Lemery Public Market, Lakandula Street. Crowded and noisy central market, selling cheap produce and dry goods. (updated Dec 2018)
• 🌍 Citimart, Diokno II Street. 6:30-10:00. Opens early and closes late. Cheaper buys than the major chains SM Hypermarket and Robinsons. (updated Dec 2018)

Eat

• 🌍 Gangnam Korean Restaurant, Ilustre Street, Malinis (Near the Phoenix gas station). Cheap Korean dining with BBQ grill. (updated Dec 2018)

Drink

Sleep

There are almost few to no hotels scattered in town before, except perhaps for beach resorts, but the economic boom in Lemery also resulted in increasing number of hotels spawning around. The town has become a major stopover for travellers to western Batangas. Hotels around Lemery are generally mid-range, as compared to Taal, where almost all available accommodations are rather luxurious to local tastes (costs above ₱2,000 and above).

• 🌍 Apollo Hotel, National Highway, Matingain. New mid-range drive-in hotel, with A/C rooms. ₱1,430. (updated Nov 2018)
• 🌍 Dreamwave Hotel Lemery, National Highway, Malinis (Beside Xentro Mall). A/C rooms with cable TV, gym and heated shower rooms. From ₱1,160. (updated Nov 2018)

Connect

Go next

Lemery is the hub location for trips to western Batangas from the east. Car travellers who went to Tagaytay first will stop at Lemery before proceeding to the rest of western Batangas or to the south to Mabini or Batangas City.

Lemery itself has no interesting beaches, but several beach destinations are within about 50 km (30 miles). The best-known is Mabini to the south. North of town a highway runs along the bay to the towns of Calaca and Balayan, both of which have some beach resorts. There are also some resorts along this route only a few km from Lemery.

Next to Lemery is the heritage town of Taal, whose old downtown is designated a National Historical Landmark.

Routes through Lemery

Tagaytay ← Nasugbu (via ) ←	N  S	→ END
Balayan ← Calaca ←	W  E	→ Taal → Batangas City