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Hidden Beautiful Beaches in the Philippines
« on: January 23, 2012, 06:01:32 AM »
More fun in these Southeast Asian hidden beaches
By HONOR BLANCO CABIE

MANILA, Jan. 21 (PNA) -- Often described as the Land of the Morning, from the Philippines' English version of its national anthem, this Southeast Asian archipelago takes pride in its paradise of beaches.

Given its 7,107 islands from Batanes up north to Tawi Tawi in the far south, approximately the length of China's Great Wall, any tourist, foreign or local, can make a memory in any of its available beaches.

And, with Philippine summer 2012 breathing down any tourist's need, the tourism department's "it's more fun in the Philippines" slogan is literally picking up.

One can literally have Eden in the country's beaches during summer, when the scorching sun exhales 32 degrees Celsius.

Good thing about these available beaches is the convenient proximity of beach resorts and cottages where tourists may stay for a couple of nights or more.

Up north, in the northwestern zone of the country's main island of luzon whipped by winds from the Luzon Bay are the beaches of Pagudpud and Currimao towns in Ilocos Norte where the cable link between Luzon and Hawaii begins.

In Pagudpud, 10 hours by bus from Manila, one can also have a glimpse of the power generating windmills in the nearby coastal town of Bangui, which also has its own class of resorts in the shadow of the Ilocos Mountain range.

Farther south is the Pug-os Beach Resort in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, where one can go surfing in early morning before the tropic sun could breach the crowns of the Ilocos mountain range.

There are several cottages on the beach side, with amenities of three-star hotels including convention halls.

Only three towns away due north of Cabugao is Pinili, where warriors walked at the turn of the 20th century and during the Japanese occupation of the country in the 1940s.

In the 1900s, better armed American troops met machete-wielding guerrillas of Catholic priest Gregorio Aglipat in hand-to-hand combat, spilling blood and chopping bodies along the 3-mile gravel road leading to the forested hill town.

One of the best places for snorkeling and kayaking from sunup top sundown is Quezon Island in the locally popular Hundred Islands of Pangasinan.

The place is near the Lingayen Gulf where US Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his Allied Liberation Troops landed on Jan. 9, 1945 against Japan's Imperial Forces then occupying the Philippines.

While the group has been historically dubbed the Hundred islands, it has in fact 124 at low tide and 123 at high tide.

Superstition suggests that first-timers on a boat ride to the islands will be safe if they kiss the stone statue of Princess Urduja, the legendary princess of Pangasinan at the Hundred islands National Park.

Farther southwest of the Hundred islands is Nagsasa Cove, home to the Aeta -- sometimes spelled out Ayta -- aborigines of this country discovered for Europe by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.

The Aetas have been relocated there after the bloody eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 after more than 600 years of slumber.

From the cove, where one may share a meal with the hospitable Aeta community, one can have a side trip to the Camnara island, a white sandbar only seven minutes off Pundaquit shores.

The area is not far from what used to be called Subic Naval Base, the erstwhile drydock facility of the giant US Seventh Fleet.

There are also the Calaguas Islands in Camarines Norte in the palm-dotted Bicol Region northeast of the national capital of Manila.

The group's main island is called Tinaga, which has the longest white sand beach called the Halabang Baybay -- literally long sand zone or long beach.

Tourists who have been there, accessible by bus from Manila to the provincial capital of Daet and then a jeep to Calaguas, say there is a platform of orange clay colored rocks which makes the water cascade on their surfaces.

In the central Philippine province of Cebu, tourists can have Bantayan island for paradise in Southeast Asia.

At D'Jungle for dinner, one can have a taste, at very affordable prices, more than 50 dishes in their buffet spread.

The buffet includes a sumptuous variety of seafoods, meat slices and greens cooked in different mouth-watering styles.

For culture vultures, the town has old structures that have remained standing in the sun and moon despite a major fire in the 1970s.

And the Bantayan Catholic Church has bas reliefs on the exterior and interior described by architects as rather intricate.

It was in Cebu province where Magellan was slain by the first native, Lapu Lapu, to defy foreign domination of the islands in 1521.

Now, if a tourist's pick is pink sand, he can proceed to Sta. Cruz island in Zamboanga City in Mindanao.

The island's distinct pink color comes from the small pink coral fragments mixed with the white sand.

There are two islands in the Santa Cruz island: the Little and the Great Island Protected Landscapes and Seascapes, with only 40 families, from the minority Samnal tribe, allowed by the government to stay in the protected area.

The tourtist can also have a side trip to Camiguin off northeastern Mindanao.

The uninhabited White island is dubbed the "Island Born of Fire" because of its eight volcanoes -- reason for a wealth of hot and cold springs.

Any visitor can have a view of the sunken graveyard as well as the volcanoes Hibok Hibok and Vulcan Daan.

The area can be reached by a flight to Cagayan de oro, devastated recently by a killer typhoon, then a van to Agora market, a bus ride to Balingoan port, a boat to Mambajao, the provincial capital and then a pump boat to White island.

Truly, as tourist-returnees exclaim, it's more fun in the Philippines.

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Re: Hidden Beautiful Beaches in the Philippines
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2012, 08:50:57 AM »
Thanks for featuring the beautiful scenery in the Phils. T.S

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