Last Trip for 2009

Me plus my two best buds, Joy & Yami meet at Jollibee Complex for our early trip. I'm not late! Yehey! It's supposed to be 5am. hehe! Anyways, breakfast with my fave burger steak plus very hot choco drink lasted for almost half an hour.

mawnin!

Travel by van going to Lipa lasted for 45 minutes only. Startollways really brings wonder to commuters like us. Jeepney ride going to San Juan was a lot different from the van we rode. Here, you can't even close your eyes or else "pupulutin ka sa lansangan"! And that means pupulutin ka talaga! Another 45 minutes and we're already in Barangay Hugom, Laiya.

ang buhok ko!

We headed to La Luz beach resort. The place is a lot different from the place I visited years ago. There I met great people like Mayor Rodolfo Manalo (of San Juan, Batangas) and Barangay Captain Mario Sulit (of Barangay Hugom, Laiya).

We were disappointed when the receptionist at La Luz informed us that they can't accommodate us. What? Actually they can accommodate us daw but they do not have available cabana for us. What again?? Gggrrr... According to Neren, the receptionist, cabanas are for those guests who made reservation. Whew! Thats's confusing. Why? Why? Why? Well, a week before our trip I called their Manila Sales office. I inquired almost every questions a traveller would asked. I even inquired if they have cabanas for day tour guests. And they said they have lots of. I even inquired if we need to make a reservation to have a cabana. Well the answer is no, "cabanas are first come first serve basis po" . And I believe that sales person on the other line! Hump! and thats it! Ggggrrrr...

We really need to take a walk or else I might do something, something! Joke lang po! Locals here are friendly in nature. They suggested for places where we can stay. Until I saw someone who looks familiar. Aha! That's the Barangay Captain, Sir Mario Sulit. The very accommodating kapitan offered his house for a snack and requested a local to find us a resort. Thank you po!

We then reach Taramindu resort. The place is different from La Luz but who cares. ^.^ The receptionist is welcoming. The staff are all accommodating. Maybe I'm in a bad mood that I can say this things toward them but I guess La Luz really need a shake... I'm a guest and I deserve tender loving care! :)

taramindu

Going back to Taramindu...

Rooms are clean and spacious for the three of us. They even gave us a discount since it's almost 10:30am and we'll be checking out at 5pm. We just rest for fifteen minutes and were ready for the "shoot".

shooting at the roof deck

roof deck bar

We waited for almost thirty minutes for our food to arrive. Sobrang gutom napagtripan ang m & m...

barbaque, sinigang na sugpo, ripe mango shake

We have our siesta after lunch...


It was already 3pm when we hit the sun, sea and the sand...

*photos courtesy of joy

Tingloy Island

Beh, my youngest sister, introduced the "word" Tingloy Island to me. Her workmates invited her there. But it was Bang, middle sister, who informed me that Lovely (my X workmate and her kumare) grew up in Tingloy...

Eager to set feet on seashore again, i got Lovely's number from Bang and make kulit to her...

I emailed ten travelling buddies last February 3, 2009. After 2 or more exchange of emails, island get away was set last February 22-23, 2009. From the ten that i emailed only 2 confirmed, Joyee and Yami.

Travel was easy since we just rode a van from Complex, Balibago going to Batangas City. Then transferred to a jeep going to Talaga.

I was so busy sightseeing, so you could imagine how shocked we were when a pail full of water was thrown to our jeep... to our face! One elderly passengers got mad while most of them were shocked but laughing... In Batangas, that practise was called "buling-buling".

Got boat from Talaga and sailed to Tingloy...

One of the good things when your place is small is that everybody knows everybody... Well, that's what happened to us. We were waiting for Lovely's father when a tricycle driver asked us if we're the visitors of Tiyo Wat. Same question was asked by 3 - 5 more by passers.

The resort has 2 big cottages. We settled for a smaller one. It was a nipa hut style. The place was near the sea, clean and so peaceful! Rinig na rinig ang sounds ng tuko!

Lunch at 12:30pm, we had tocino, sardines in vegetable oil (c/o me), rice, salted egg and talong from Yami. Most of our foods were from Joyee. Thank you thank you sobrang busog!!!

Masasa beach can be reach both by tricycle and boat. We settled for tricycle, it's free since it's Tiyo Wat's. We were accompanied by Jofred, his son. Though the trek was kinda steep, we were so amazed by the beauty of nature.

Sa sobrang sikat ng araw, we waited pa ata for an hour before we swimmed. We stayed in the water for almost two hours because we really enjoyed the fine white sand and waited for the sun to set and not to mentioned the kwentuhan and our laughters... It was almost 6pm when we decided to go back to our rest house.

Back in resthouse, Tatay, the owner, volunterred to cooked our rice. I prepared the ingredients for california maki while we tooked turn in the rest room. The california maki by Joyee had a 5 star rate when the owner + Tiyo Wat tried...

It was already 11pm when we tried to sleep. Okatokat! Kze sabi ni yami parang she saw a pair of eye daw in between 2 bamboos. While i kept my eyes closed since the window was too big that i might saw someone or something... Nyahahaha! That night we had one common moved, we kept on kicking each other's foot slighly so that we'll know we're still beside each other!

We were awakened by Tatay at around 7am. The last trip going to Anilao is at 8am! Quick breakfast and we're all set!

For sure, we will be back!!!

P.S.

Thank you po Tiyo Wat, dun sa Municipal Police and sa bodyguard ni Mayor na nagbantay at nakipag kwentuhan sa min. Next time ayusin nyo na sched ni Mayor para ma meet namin! Hehehe! Thanks po kay Nanay at Tatay na may ari ng resort sobrang welcoming po kayo...

Thanks to my buddies, Yami and Joyee!!!
Till next time...

Here's our expenses:

P110.00 - van from Complex to Batangas

P25.00 - Batangas City to Talaga

P450.00 - Talaga to Tingloy via boat (for 3, late kami for the usual trip)

P300.00 - resthouse (that's per guest)

P55.00 - boat from Tingloy to Anilao

P30.00 - Anilao to Lemery

P120.00 - Lemery to Balibago by van via Tagaytay

P790.00 - Total/head