Top Mind Blowing In Southern Part Of Batanes, Philippines
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Batanes is a breath-taking. A visually charming, a postcard-worthy, and the genuine hospitality of the native people, the Ivatans, the honesty place I’ve ever experienced in my life, the zero crime rate, the tourist friendly place. Batanes is a very moody, a fragile, you need to balance her which day to explore, she’s changing moods, sometimes calm and too sunny, sometimes you’ll be facing the biggest typhoon if your timing is not right.
Southern part of Batanes is one of my favourite in batanes, every corner is a stunning and a dropping jaw, a picturesque indeed! we planned to swim and fishing though its not included in the itinerary but since we are not in a group, we have freedom and we manage the time to enjoy the southern part of batanes.
Southern Batan is located six kilometers south of basco, mahatao is rich in culture, evident in the unearthed archeological sites dating back to 1200-300BC.
Batanes composed of 10 Islands with only three inhabited ( Batan, Itbayat, and Sabtang) while the islets of Dinem, Siayan, Ditarem, Misanga, Mavudis, dequey, and Vuhus are uninhabited. It has six municipalities, Basco, Mahatao, Ivana, and Uyugan this are located in Batan, and the Island towns of Sabtang and Itbayat. However, for tourism purposes, Batan Island is divided into two, the north and south batan.
Top Things To Enjoy Southern Part of Batanes
Southern Batan:
- Paderes Point and Cliff Road
A literally cliff road and need to blow ur horn as batanes abundance of blow ur horn signs carved onto the cliff at blind corners.
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- Chawa Viewing Deck
Chawa Viewing Deck is our 1st stop in southern Batanes, the perfect spot to enjoy Batanes sunset facing the west Philippine sea where one can descend more than a hundred steps down the adjacent cliff, a perfect to take pictures.
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- Mahatao Boat Shelter Port
Boats are the part of the Ivatans Life, this port is the shelter if there is a typhoon hit in town.
- Mahatao Town
- San Carlos Borromeo Church
Located in Mahatao, San Carlos Borromeo Church is declared in 2001 by the national Museum and national commission for culture and arts as one of the 26 churches recognized as cultural icons.
- Mahatao Spanish Lighthouse
- Mahatao Tayid Lighthouse
The beauty of Tayid Lighthouse is the perfect view of the pacific ocean, and the other parts of batan island and its rugged mountain cliffs facing the west Philippine sea.
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- Hohmoron Lagoon or Spanish Blue Lagoon
Hohmoron Blue Lagoon or Spanish Blue Lagoon in mahatao are mostly of my favorite part in batanes, a perfect spot to escape the city life, simply I fall in love of this place, a small lagoon but hides in between rocky cliffs, just by the road you will see this stunning view.
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- Hohmoron White Beach
Hohmoron White Beach or White Beach is next to Blue Lagoon, it is easily accessible from the lagoon by climbing back up to the road and going westward. at first, I don’t like to enter in a small cave and a few steps to get easily enter the white beach from blue lagoon, maybe there is a snake but after this you will amazed the beauty of the place, in my own opinion, white beach are still untouched.
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- House of Dakay ( The Old Ivatan Stone House )
The Old Ivatan House and the most photographed Ivatan house, built of lime and stone in 1887 and owned by Luisa Estrella.
- Spanish Old Bridge
The Bridge was constructed without any reinforcement steel and mainly with lime and stone, to hold the mortar in place, until it hardened. It is probably the only Spanish-built bridge in the province still accessible to motor vehicles.
- San Jose De Ivana Church and Ruins
- Honesty Store
Yes its literally honesty store in the whole wide world, at least we still have existing honesty like this store, an unmanned refreshments store which has became famous worldwide for showcasing Ivatan’s honesty. There is no standby seller, the owners rely on the honesty of its customers when paying for goods taken from the store, walla bow ooh wooow! 😉
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- San Antonio De Florencia Church in Uyugan
- Ruins of Songsong
Remnants of an old settlement which were ravaged by tsunami in the 1950’s. and now they called hunted house not an horror story but hunted just because no one will use this historical place of song-song ruins as one of the movie house during old times.
- Songsong Beach
Just look around the song-song ruins site you will see this beach as I call it song-song beach 😉 but not that fine sand but the historical of the place was a pure beauty.
- Our Lady of Miraculous Medal in Itbud
- San Lorenzo Ruiz Chapel in Imnajbu
- Alapad Hills and Rock Formation
A captivating view of the rolling hills and rock formation and need to blow ur horn ones you pass by this pure beauty of the place, this place is a very popular by the movie “hihintayin kita sa langit” or so called I-dawn zulueta mo ako, though I never saw the movie yet but the natural beauty of the place was amazing!
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- Diura Beach
The beauty of diura beach from racuh a payaman aka Marlboro hills view, you will seen the beauty of the beach.
- Racuh a Payaman aka Marlboro Hills
The beauty in one place so called Marlboro hills, Racuh a Payaman aka Marlboro hills is the perfect sceneries for the nature lovers and photographers, all in one place you will see the diura beach, and tayid lighthouse.
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Dios Mamajes! 😉
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