Philippine Travel Notes

On my way to Borongan this morning I had a chance to drop by Canhugas Nature Park somewhere on the Pacific Coast of Hernani in Eastern Samar. All I could say was "oh wow, our country also has this"? For the past 2 or 3 years, I've been seeing signage along the road, pointing the way towards this place. That early, I already wanted to come and see this place. But, there was just no opportunity, until today! Why the interest? Ah well, I'm a beach lover, many of you know that. And seeing that the arrows on the road pointed east, I said "this Canhugas thing must be along Eastern Samar's Pacific Coast. Tingnan"! So, thinking this was some strip of "sandy beach", this was on my bucket list for quite a time. And this opportunity was even just an attempt to "make my bad day become a good one". A "stop gap activity"! Thus, I did not ever think this was going to be "one fantastic day of discovery"! Y'know pol...

It's like this... I passed by this town yesterday, after Jagna , but it was already too dark, not only for my phone's camera, but even for my ("aged", okay fine) human eyes! So, especially that it was raining, we just breezed-by the center of town (although I shot a few pics). And today, I returned to see more of it. Yesterday Entering Garcia-Hernandez from Jagna , that wonderful view of the vast Bohol Sea continued... This was about 4 kilometers to center of town, which over at that end across the big cargo ship. Oh, I caught a snap of this cute signage along this road, a few meters before the above scenic shot... Wala lang. I just found that cute. The sign itself is nothing fantastic, it's fairly normal-usual-rural. What made me smile (I guess), was the thought of what was being offered! Do you know what a " baktin " is? In most of Central Visayas, "baktin" means "piglet". In Tagalog "biik". Now, have you ever seen...