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see that curvy red line? that's how far we travelled last last weekend..................
i was on a luzon trip adventure with my officemates last weekend (march 14-16)...................... it was a last minute plan really, so we all need to go home first to pack our things (oops! except for E--hi E!)..................... we left manila at 1:00am -saturday and we were back 12:30am - tuesday.............. our target destination was really pagudpud, but we did a side trip also to vigan and claveria, cagayan.................. it was fun!!!
details.....details....
stop overs our first stop was at la union to have our breakfast, next was at the bridge's view deck (the bridge connecting ilocos sur and ilocos norte).................... then we decided to have our lunch at vigan (that was my third time to see vigan)........................ took a lot of pictures there and toured R because it was his first time.................. after which we continued our drive to pagudpud............ we saw a couple of windmills on our way and there was a view deck so we stopped there to take pictures also................
pagudpud since E was at pagudpud ahead of us she was the one who booked our accomodation, we stayed at villa del mar (contact nos.:0920.553.4161/0919.899.5673)............... our stay there was comfortable.................... the room has a/c but w/o tv......................it has swimming pool, resto and a bar at night.................... i didn't swim at saud beach, only at villa del mar's swimming pool............... it was dark
na kasi when i finished taking photos................ we just stayed at villa del mar for a night...............
the next day, after eating breakfast and after we cheked out of the resort we went to tour pagudpud.............. ofcourse we won't dare miss the mairaira beach-the boracay of the north...............the water was so inviting that my officemates can't help but take a dip at the blue clear waters of mairaira, while me, i just took a lot of pictures *grins*..................... why, i was too lazy to change and the sun is freaking me out so i just took a lot of pictures :p.................. we also stopped by bantay-abot (again for picture taking), agua de grande, patapat viaduct and paraiso ni san anton.......................we didn't bother go to kabigan falls but it's ok, i've seen that falls already during my first pagudpud visit..................................
claveria after touring pagudpud we went straight to claveria, cagayan to visit E's house.....................btw, try cagayan's bibingka................ it doesn't look like the bibingka i know of and it tasted and looked more like a cassava cake to me but it's so delicious! anyway, when we arrived at E's house (barrio) we just ate our lunch there and off we went to their other house (town) where the claveria beach is.................... we just went to the market to buy our dinner and we left again because E wants to show us where sentinela is................... when we reached sentinela we hiked up the hill to see how the whole claveria looks from the top.................. when night fell we did some star gazing at the claveria beach..................... we spent the night at E's house (thank you, thank you to E and her family, they were so accomodating)
time to go home we decided to take the nueve vizcaya route on our way back to manila ...................... they were telling me something about a hobbiton-like place somewhere in isabela and with that i was all excited to take that route................. so yeah, we, like, tour the whole of luzon's head *grins*...............
methinks doing that route wasn't worth it................... there's not much to see on the eastern part of luzon........................ i think we might be better off if we just re-traced our route and did more side trips on ilocos norte (paoay, batac, currimao, etc)................... but it's ok, there's always a next time............... and besides, i got to taste the alcala milk candies because of that route.............. try their frozen candies, it's Php20/bag......................
here are some of the pictures................. the 1st three were taken at vigan, the next one at pagudpud (mairaira) and the last two were taken at claveria.............
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