Pangasinan Province, on the north of Zambales province is where the sea-salt is found the Gulf of Lingayen . In the middle of the 16th century the Chinese pirate Lee Mah Ong, along with 3000 men tried unsuccessfully to set up a base here after failing to capture Manila.

The chief tourist attraction here is the Hundred Islands National Park near the small town of Alaminos. In fact there are rather fewer than a hundred of these little coral islets. They are covered with shrubs and flowers and indented by creeks. Sadly, fishermen with dynamite have long ago ruined things for scuba-divers. There is also the church of St James and Regional Museum which gives an insight into the life and culture of the Philippines from the 7th to the 15th centuries.