Your Travel Guide to the Philippines
Your Travel Guide to the Philippines
Batanes, Camarines Sur, FEATURED, Luzon, Mindanao, PHILIPPINE BEACHES, Surigao del Norte
Pebble beach is a beach peppered with small to medium-sized pebbles. The formation of pebble beaches is still a big question to date. While generally it is assumed that the glacial era left plenty of stones and sand on the ocean floor and because of beach-drift they were pushed onshore, a comprehensive research needs to be carried out for each …
Batanes, Luzon
That summer morning at the heart of Basco, Batanes was uncommonly humid. Through the window of my room, I heard the roar of motorbikes and cars. But then I heard something else: drums, xylophones and loud cheering. A parade was moving down the nearby street, all vehicles slowed down to let the floats and the participants pass. It was …
Batanes, Luzon, Sightseeing
The ancient Ivatans drew comfort from a theory that the lava flow that devastated their fields and properties occasionally is also responsible for shaping up their province. Story has it, that all the 10 islands comprising Batanes were peaks in a massive underwater rim built up by lava flows from faults in the ocean floor. These underwater volcanic activities millions …
