Lies in the coast of Camarines Sur is a paradise hidden in an underdeveloped and rural soil, where white sand beaches, limestone cliffs, islands and islets are common scenery. This is Caramoan! Come south!
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| The island is very clean, the sand is white and the water is so clear. |
Well, words are not enough to describe how wonderful and enchanting Caramoan is! (*weeeeeeee, wooooooow!, oooohhhhhh. our expressions during the island hopping)
I keep on hearing about this place, Caramoan, though it is only 4 hours travel from our house in Pili, Camarines Sur. I saw pictures of my friends and I heard that the place was made popular by the international reality show "SURVIVOR".
So I did check the famous tourist spot with my Mom, 2 brothers and my sister to see whether it was really a paradise. Luckily my college friend has tour packages offer in Caramoan so I only spend 20,000.00php X 5pax for 3 days and 2 nights stay with van transfers from the port of Caramoan to the Inn, 2 days Island hopping, foods (breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks and dinner) well, I was always full and never had a starving moment! LOL. So you don't have to worry whether you have to buy and bring foods with you, which makes it very convenient for us. So all you have to bring with you are your swimsuits, sunblock lotions, camera and kikay stuff paraphernalia. And you don't even need to spend more, because it's basically cheap there.
We arrive in Caramoan port from Sangay at around 11:00 am, then after lunch we had our Day 1 island hopping where in you can swim at every stop over. It was not even boring because you will see tourist in other bangka racing to go to the other islands.
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| My sister: Buddah Jump |
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| the bangka that we used during our tour |
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| One of our viand during dinner |
On our day 2, we left early so that we can see the sand bar, because otherwise at noon, it will be high tide and water will be covering the sand bar.
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| floating cottage at the sand bar, water is only 5in deep |
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From this side of Caramoan, It doesn't seem like you are still in the Philippines. The view was really breath taking!
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| view from the hill in one of the islets in Caramoan. |
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If you will visit Caramoan, you should not miss this place, The Shrine of our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
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| The image of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is overlooking the Islands of Caramoan |
It was tiring, It was hot! (april) But it was all worth it! Yeeey!!
Cam Sur, Come South!
