Sabado, Abril 16, 2011

How To Get Around

  Getting around the 64 kilometer circumferential road of Camiguin is easiest by hiring a van and driver from the resort you are staying in. Motorcycles for hire, called habal-habal, are another way of exploring the island.
  You can opt to get a motorcycle driver to show you around, or you can hire the motorcycle for P200/day, fuel not included. Getting hold of a bicycle is another great way to get around.
  Camiguin has five towns, with Brgy. Mambajao as its capital and main center of commerce. Bank, a market, the airport, and small shops are located in Mambajao.

How To Get There

  Camiguin is accessible by plane, but only if you're leaving from Cebu. SEAir flies direct to Camiguin three times a week. Planes, and the flight takes only 30 minutes.
  Most people get to Camiguin by land and sea travel. Slow boats leave from Cebu and travel overnight. Another option is take a hired van or bus from Cagayan de Oro city to Misamis Oruental, where you can take a ferry to Camiguin. Leaving from Cagayan de Oro City takes three hours to get to Camiguin. Ferries from Misamis Oriental leave hourly.

Dining

  The most canvenient place to grab a meal is your hotel, though not to be missed is eating at the restaurants surrounding the Taguines Lagoon. Fresh seafood is kept in the water, below the alfresco, stilted restaurant setting. J&A Fishpen is the most popular and serves fish, shrimps, crabs, and other fresh sea creatures. You can even fish for your own food and have the kitchen prepare your catch the way you want.
  Most tourist sites also have nearby eateries where you can have a meal without having to leave the area.

Accommodations

  There are only a handful of resort on the island, the most popular of which are Paras Beach Resort, Bahay Bakasyunan, Secreat Cove, and Highland Resort. Most resorts are located along the coastline, though Highland Resort is situated high up on a mountain, and there are small hotels in the downtown area of Brgy. Mambajao.

Lanzones Festival

  It is held every fourth week of October. It features revellers, stomping and dancing in the streets as tribute to the province's main produce.

Biyernes, Abril 15, 2011

Mantegue Island

  A four hectare white sand islet with a forest in the middle. It is four kilometers away from Barangay mahinog, a popular dive spot.

Soda Water

  Pool filled with fresh, clean, sparking water. The Soda Water pool is surrounded by mountains and is a refreshing stop that's cut away from the main road.

Enigmata Art Gallery

  This eclectic, eccentric art gallery cum guest house adds much character to the island. Filled with curios fashioned  from the most improbable materials, this part house is a veritable gathering place for the creative energies that run through the island.

Moro Watchtower

  A former lookout point for Muslim crusaders who reportedly to take its women. The watchtower was more massive in size, as women and children took refuge there while the men battled against the pirates. Now only a small section is left as a huge part of the watchtower was torn down to make way for the school that now surrounds the relic.

Underwater Cemetery

  A highlight of Camiguin, this cemetery became a watery graveyard in 1871 when the old Volcano on the island erupted and changed  the landscape. A white cross juts out from the sea, a mere replica of the original that is actually farther out and completely submerged.

Sto. Nino Cold Springs

  A bubbling pool of refreshing water that draw and crowds because of the commercial setup around it (karaoke joint, shops, and resorts).

Mount Hibok-hibok

  It is the tallest mountain in the province. It remain as one of Camiguin's active volcanoes.

Ardent Hot Spring

  This natural hot tub is defined by the activities that go on around it. The hot spring itself encompasses only a small area while its surrounding plays host to concerts, cookouts, and campouts. A resort sits beside it.

Katibawasan Falls

  A resplendent 60 meter waterfall, with a fool good for lounging around nature.

White Island

  An uninhabited strip of white sand just a few kilometers away from Camiguin. It's to go early in the morning as there is little shade on this solitary islet. Mostly everybody makes their way to this sand strip instead.

Underwater Cemetery

  Camiguin is an island where nature runs aplenty. Is boasts an impressive list of tourist attractions and activities and its an inviting escape for a nature lover who can trek to waterfalls, bike to springs (hot and cold), and just breathe bar, dive, climb, and just breathe in the fresh mountain air.
  The entire island is inhabited by about 80,000 people, and it takes just one and a half hours to go around the island on a well-paved road that takes you from architectural relics rife with history to lush clearings facing the open sea. Small and developed just enough to be comfortable, Camiguin could very well be the perfect island to travel to far a few days of adventure and exploration.

White Island Camiguin

  The Island of Camiguin is said to be "born of Fire," pertaining to the seven volcano located on this 238 sq. km. patch of land of site across the province of Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro in 1953, Mt. Hibok-Hibok erupted violently enough to spew both lava and that later cooled down to form an extended part of the province. A circumferential road now runs through the entire land, embracing the parts that created the"underwater cemetery and forming underwater canyons now inhibited by u wealth of marine life.