Showing posts with label batan island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label batan island. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Batanes 2nd Day; Biking Marlboro Country

holy week specials for a unique philippine province
april 21-24, 2011 thursday to sunday

objective:
to visit the best tourist spots that fits my budget at limited amount of time. 
additional tasks: to conquer this 3 famous place of batan, sabtang and itbayat islands and taste there local delicacies

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MTB diy trip to marlboro country

MTB diy trip to marlboro country

MTB diy trip to marlboro country

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Batanes 1st Day; Batan Island Group Tour

holy week specials for a unique philippine province
april 21-24, 2011 thursday to sunday

objective: to visit the best tourist spots that fits my budget at limited amount of time.
additional tasks: to conquer this 3 famous place of batan, sabtang and itbayat islands and taste there local delicacies


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by the way, this trip was supposedly a solo backpacking but since the entire duration was a religious holiday especially for the ivatans, irregular schedule of public transpo has been implemented. in addition, tour services rented public transpo vehicles due to the volume of visited tourist. on that reason, i have no choice but to hitched in a package tour offered in the hiro's cafe. this was also the package tour availed by my travel-mate, the difference was inclusion of meals and accommodations because i requested to omit it. so there it was, the  itinerary of doing it alone has changed in an instant due to ignoring the holiday effect. it seems this has taken more on advantage level for having to share the fun and excitement of traveling with other fellow tourist not to mention the saved budget.

arrive 1130am at the hiro's cafe, took lunch and decided to wait for my travel-mate to hitch on his tour set for this day. around 130pm, we left and started the rounds.

spring of youth

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Northernmost Best Wonder, the Batanes Islands

holy week specials for a unique philippine province
april 21-24, 2011 thursday to sunday


objective:
to visit the best tourist spots that fits my budget at limited amount of time.
additional tasks: to conquer this 3 famous place of batan, sabtang and itbayat islands and taste there local delicacies

important notes (batanes):
The Province of Batanes is the northernmost and the smallest province of the Philippine Republic, both in terms of population and land area. The provincial capital is Basco. There is a misconception that Batanes is constantly being battered by typhoons. If Batanes is always mentioned in connection with weather disturbances, it is because its capital, Basco, holds the last weather station in the north. It is a reference point for all typhoons that enter the Philippine area of responsibility. It has no pronounced wet or dry season. It enjoys practically four seasons, the best ones being summer (April–June) and winter (December–February), when the temperature dips as low as seven degrees Celsius.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanes

marlboro country