Trip to Batanes, Day 5

So this day I woke up fairly late and went downstairs and asked if they had bfast. They asked if I wanted rice and I was like "um....do you know where I can get a pastry" and they said "oh, the owner just came back from Manila and brough some dunkin donuts. So they then gave me 2 donuts and coffee. It was so nice of them to do that. Especially when who knows how long it was since they had dunkin donuts.

So after bfast I ask the owner what else I should do while in the island and asked about a spring I saw online where it overlooks the ocean. She told me where it was and tried explaining it and how I could rent their motorcycle but if I wasn't experienced I probably shouldn't take it. So after 20 minutes of trying to figure out how I could go to this place, she says she can call their tour guide who runs a trike around town to take me there for a good price.

So around noon, the trike owner comes by and takes me on a journey.

We took the trike to a place called Diura fishing village. This was one of my absolute favorite places on Batan. It was remote and still very much culturally in tact. It's what it is. It's a fishing village. All these people do is fish. They catch a fish called Dorado. There was some drying when we got there. So we started walking past the town to get to a spring that had an afinity pool overlooking the ocean. We had to stop though and pay a little fee to the village since I was a tourist though.

Then we walked on and continued past a place that just looked like a giant rock pile. My guide though tells me that this too used to be a village, but it's been deserted. The island gets hit with 6-8 typhoons every year! That's why you can really only visit it for like 3 months out of the year.

Finally we reached the spring and it was beautiful. It was so tranquil and I wished I had my swimming suit to go swimming in it. But of course, there was a couple there too, so I probably wouldn't have wanted to go swimming.

Anyway, we then walked down to the beach where my guide showed me a cave there called Crystal cave. We had to walk over some huge rocks and into little cravases to get to it. It was an awesome place, but he said it used to be even better before all the crystal was taken out of it.

Then we walked back to the trike and he asked if I had seen the old lighthouse. I hadn't and so he offered to drive me to it. So we drove to this old beautiful lighthouse on the island and I took a bunch of pictures of it and the beautiful green hills around me.

Then he took me back to my lodge, and I paid him nicely for the journey and then had a dinner of pork at my lodge which was good again.

Then I watched the sunset and went to bed. Tomorrow I would be off to Sabtang again to see some more sights there that I had missed.