As I mentioned on my previous post, at the first day of our trip to Coron Island we decided to visit one of the attraction of Coron Island which is Kayangan Lake. As I show you from my previous post the beauty of the place on our way, that is nothing to what I have seen when we arrived the Kayangan Lake.

The place is maintain and guarded by the Tagbanua minority group. According to our tour guide Kayangan Lake is part of the  Tagbanua ancestral domain water.

Before see the beautiful lake we need to climb the hill, with very narrow stair.  It will take 10-15 minutes climbing before you reach the beautiful lake.

Finally after 10 minutes of climbing the hill , we have reach the beautiful lake of Kayangan. The color of the water is very clear , there are many other group of foreign and local tourist enjoying the place and can’t resist the water of the lake.The lake is walled by beautiful lime stone I guess, which was form by thousand of year.

Ahhh I can’t think good words to describe the place and what I feel while we are there so I will show you the pictures I have taken and enjoy viewing them.

More kayangan lake pictures to come later, as this post so many pictures already. I want to show you everything I have seen in the place.

At the day we arrived at Coron Islands Palawan, we are excited to see the hidden beauty of this Paradise Island. Even we are tired for the 12 hours voyage we decided to go to our first destination in the Island.  We 5 place destination all in Coron visinity but we need to ride Banka (local boat) to reach the beautiful places in the area.

On our way I was really amazed to what I have seen. I am leaving at urban area so I never expected that there still a place like what I saw in our way to Kayangan Lake our first destination.

The water is color Blue maybe because it’s deep, but the water is really clear and very peaceful.  I have taken lot of pictures on our way, islands, mountains, lime stone mountain and more.

I can’t think a nice word to picturized or describe the place, I have been in so many beautiful places in the Philippines but I have never seen a place like this before. I will say Coron Island Palawan is a hidden paradised hope that soon will not urbanized to maintain it’s beauty.

Here are some pictures I have taken while in the boat.

More Pictures to come so watch out for the update of this blog the fun is just started….

This is an unplanned vacation to one of the best tourist destination in the Philippines. I and my wife not really expected or planned to visit Coron Island Palawan very soon because our first priority in mind is Boracay. But my wife grand mother already planned to visit Coron Island together with her friends. She ask us to go with her in Coron so that she have companion. To make the story short, we agreed to go with her in Coron Island for a vacation.

The group agreed to go to Coron Islands via Supper Ferry financial wise according to them, but we traveled for more than 12 hours before we arrive the Coron Port. You can go to the island by plane and it will take more or less than 30 minutes via Busuanga Airport. I guess SEAir is the local air company providing the service.
We leave Pier 15 at Manila at around 5 PM and we travel by sea trough Super Ferry ship for 12 hours or more.

To be honest it’s my first time to visit a place by sea (ship). At first I feel little bit dizzy , but while the ship go on , I later found out that it’s comfortable to ride ship. There are 2 restaurant in the ship one for economy and one for first class. Food are good in the ship and affordable I guess.

Bur if you ask me what is the best way to go to Coron Island, I suggest that you go via airplane bound to Busuanga , then take bus bound to Coron Island. Trip will take 2 hours according to the locals.

Finding place to stay in the area is not that hard there so many places to stay and take note all of the people in the place are very kind, helpful, and friendly.

Here are some pictures we got during our 12 hours trip to Coron Islands

Finally we don’t need to go to Singapore to only view under water creatures. After long wait and plan to visit the newly constructed Manila ocean Park, we have finally visit the said park.

I, my wife and my in laws really enjoy the recent visit to Manila Ocean Park. Here I have seen under sea creatures that I never seen before. I say the place is big and well organized, during our visit there are so many tourist visiting the ocean park.

Here I saw shark very near and other tourist have the chance to hold them.

Going there is not that hard because it is situated behind the famous Quirino Grand Stand in Luneta Park in Manila.

Here are some pictures I got, sorry for the quality of the pictures, I can’t used high quality cameras during our visit because they don’t allow camera with flash, I only use my CP to take some picture. I have no pictures from dark rooms.

As I promised on my last post. Here is the continuation of the Mt. Samat related post I made last night. I want to show you how beautiful the place is. Mt. Samat is declared as National Park under the supervision of Department of National Defense with a minimal entrance, for as low 20 pesos per person, this includes the ticket that you will use as passes at the Mt. Samat Museum where you can see the equipments being used during the world war II, but take note you are not allowed to take picture inside the Museum.

If you want to go inside the Dambana ng Kagitingan you need to pay 10 pesos, the money being collected here is being used to pay for the electricity used by the elevator.

Here are the pictures…

This historic place is located at Diwa, Pilar, Bataan , Philippines. According to the Philippines History and World War II history. Mt Samat have a big rule in the history of world war II, and played significant rule during the invasion of Japanese Army in Pacific.
That’s all for now I have more pictures to show , so watch out for my next entry as I feel sleepy now

You will see at my next post the biggest gun in Mt. Samat , how the cross like inside it.

Mt. Samat is used by Filipino and American Forces to defend and delayed the invasion of Japanese Army. Because of this historic place, the time table of Japanese Army to occupy the entire Pacific was destroyed , this is the reason why they have not invade Australia.

Every 9th of April Philippine Government declare as national day, which commemorate the bravery of those Filipino And American Soldiers who fought to defend the country.

On 1968, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos , who serve the army during the World War II as Army Lieutenant of the combine force of Philippine Army and American Army. He is also known as one of the Bataan Defender and hero during the “Fall of Bataan”. Raised the monument of Dambana Ng Kagitingan (Shrine of Valor) , to perpetuate for all time the heroism of the Filipino race.

Mt. Samat is a must seen place when you’re visiting Bataan. The national park is open to public. At the top of Mt Samat you will see the Dambana of Kagitingan.

Here are some pictures I have get during my last visit to the place….

This picture was taken on our way to Mt. Samat more or less 8 km from the samat cross

Here is how the dambana of kagitingan look like, showing a great sculpture.