2009 in Batanes
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Happy New Year to all of you, my readers!
I just got back from a five day vacation in the beautiful island of Batanes. I can not fully describe to you how magical, wonderful and totally heavenly this place is but the pictures I took will try to. I planned this trip three months ago, wanting to go there for as long as I can remember. I always thought of Batanes as the Philippines’ version of Scotland and I was right but the feeling of it being in our country is just too much. We took a Seair flight at 6 am that arrives in Basco after an hour and a half and from the airport, went straight to the best place one should stay in, Fundacion Pacita, owned by the Abad family, this was the late artist Pacita Abad’s studio and is now a high end inn where the view of the South China Sea and the mountains of Tukon, Batanes is at your side the whole time.
I am just too overwhelmed with all the beauty that was in the island, everything was just naturally heaven on earth.
After two hours of resting, we left for an island tour which included, most of the sights in Batan Island; Tukon Radar Station, Ivatan Fortress, Valugan Boulder Beach which was full of big round rocks, Naidi Hills that had a light house, and Rolling Hills. Great sights, greenery, cows grazing and the coldness of the weather was just right. We also had a very good tour guide, Roger and a van with a driver, Homer who gave in to all our request. We also dropped by a fishing village where I slipped and fell and bruised my right hand, first accident of the day…..everything was just right, then it rained, became very windy and cold, so we had dinner at the Fundacion of very fresh steamed parrot fish with chop suey, pako salad ( ferns which is abundant in the island ) and rice. More Batanes posts to follow soon.
