Life on the Happy Lane!

 Anawangin Cove The last stop in our San Antonio, Zambales trip is Anawangin Cove . After the group had their share of sunshine, sea breeze, great views and lots of fun at Camara and Capones Islands, we then headed to Anawangin Cove where we are going to have lunch and spend the rest of our remaining hours before going back to Jimz Resthouse in Pundaquit. Anawangin Cove is one of the coves created by the fateful eruption of the nearby Mount Pinatubo in the 1990s. Hence, with its pretty landscape of near white sand beach and agoho trees, the island attests to the saying that out of bad comes good sometimes. I read about Anawanging Cove several years back from one of the top travel blogs, and I was sort of expecting that it would still look the way it was described back then--an islet of tranquility, where one can spend hours of peaceful solitude with nature. I was excited. But apparently, this beautiful place is no longer a s...

The Capones Lighthouse @ Capones Island After Camara Island , our next stop was Capones Island . Capones is the second location in our day's itinerary, the other two being Camara and Anawangin.   The rocky shores of Capones Island Capones is a rugged beauty. Large white boulders are scattered on its shores and a rocky mountain towers  imposingly over our seemingly minuscule boats. It's like a scene from a pirate or an island cast-away movie. What makes the island special, however--in fact, the main attraction therein--is the Capones Lighthouse. Save for the lighthouse which is now a popular tourist destination, the place has that atmosphere of isolation. With its picturesque view, Capones is beautiful and serene but also rugged and desolate. These girls are toughies as much as they are beauties :) In order to reach the lighthouse, we have to climb a flight of stairs on the side of the mountain. Stairs are not exactly my specialty hehe, and I quite expected n...

Lakwatseras! The author with her friends and travel besties @ Camara Island :) The Plan. With all the travel buzz around us, my friends and I were also itching for our own out-of-town adventure. The girls are also uber biyaheras , only that we rarely travel in the company of each other and we think it's high time to fulfill that long overdue bloc outing :) Our idea of a weekend get-away, however, is one that is not so far from Metro Manila, will only take several hours of drive or commute, quite accessible and safe,affordable, and more importantly, idyllic for a relaxing weekend for a bunch of busy girls. This led us to decide on Zambales . Our original plan was only to go to Anawangin Cove since we've been hearing a lot about this place already. Little did we expect that there is a whole lot more in store for us in Zambales--that apart from Anawangin, there are still other beautiful islands worth a visit, such as the Camara Island and the Capones Island . View of A...

Hello again! I was gone for a while to focus on my review for the bar examination held last November 2011. The bar exam was the one-time-big-time, make-or-break EXAM of my life, so I had to pour all my energy and attention to that humongous quest. Nevertheless, the wanderlust still burned inside me. The desire to taste the fullness of life never ceased, so I ended up searching for simpler and smaller pleasures--those that are within my budget and will not take a long time. And, what better locations are there for a short rendezvous than those just within Metro Manila ? The wonderful busy streets of Binondo Our bar review classes have just adjourned and Jessie, my friend and fellow reviewee, was about to go back to Naga City. Hence, we thought that we should fulfill our long-time dream of going on a foodtrip in Binondo , otherwise known as Manila's Chinatown . One Friday afternoon, we--Jessie, moi, Kendi (byahera's roommie) and Czarina Mae--just went ahead with the plan. From K...