Archive for April, 2010

  • Burdeos Quezon: Malaguinoan Islands

    Burdeos Quezon: Malaguinoan Islands

    It is surrounded by clear, blue waters and covered with palm trees and lush vegetation perfect for swimming and beach camping.

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  • Burdeos Quezon: Exploring the Caves of Puting Bato

    Burdeos Quezon: Exploring the Caves of Puting Bato

    A short walk brought us to the second cave, which was very different to the first, but equally spectacular. Whereas the first cave was large and cavernous, this one was small and narrow, but with some truly beautiful formations. Stalagmites and stalactites adorn the walls everywhere you look, and the cave just gets more beautiful the deeper you go.

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  • Burdeos Quezon: Camping at Ikulong Island

    Burdeos Quezon: Camping at Ikulong Island

    The sun was about to hide under the horizon when we finally reached Ikulong Island to camp for the night. The water here was so calm with mangrove trees more exposed at low tide and rows of palm trees along its shore.

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  • Quezon: Island-Hopping in Burdeos Day 1

    Quezon: Island-Hopping in Burdeos Day 1

    Our boatmen said it’s quite dangerous to go to this island because it’s already the Pacific Ocean behind it but we still went anyway

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  • Burdeos Quezon: Travel Guide Essentials

    Burdeos Quezon: Travel Guide Essentials

    Burdeos is a nature-lover’s paradise. It has many fine white-sand beaches, spectacular caves, undeveloped waterfalls, mangrove forests, fish and bird sanctuary, pearl farms, and rich aquatic resources. It has notable snorkeling and diving areas that are waiting to be explored and caves and rock formations that are comparable to those of Palawan’s

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  • Polillo Quezon: Finding Agta Beach

    Polillo Quezon: Finding Agta Beach

    It has fine light brown sand that stretched to about half a kilometer and the water is relatively clear.

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  • Quezon Accommodation: Isla Polillo Beach Resort

    Quezon Accommodation: Isla Polillo Beach Resort

    Isla Polillo Beach Resort was the only fully-functional resort that we found online while looking for a place to stay in Polillo Island in Quezon Province

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  • Quezon Accommodation: Villa Anita Butterfly Garden and Resort

    Quezon Accommodation: Villa Anita Butterfly Garden and Resort

    Villa Anita accommodation I would say is worth its price. Its most basic accommodation (Nipa Hut Jr.) cost Php800 and you get to stay in a native hut bungalow with its own veranda that also includes breakfast for two

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  • Quezon: Puting Buhangin and Kwebang Lampas

    Quezon: Puting Buhangin and Kwebang Lampas

    Puting Buhangin for me is the most scenic of all the beaches we visited in Padre Burgos and Pagbilao during our island-hopping marathon. It was the most enticing of them all and the only beach where I actually swam and lingered the longest.

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