Dive and Trek, Anilao (aka Batang Yagit goes Diving) – May 12, 2012
People go on lakwatsas for various reasons. Once it a while, it isn’t about you. Sometimes its about sharing an experience with a friend. For around a week, Benj Espina and I had been chatting on Facebook bringing Winston Almendras (aka Batang Yagit) Scuba Diving. I had been hearing about this from both of them for months, I thought it would make for an awesome adventure.
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Mapanuepe Lake, Zambales – April 5, 2012
If you are looking for an adventure to a place virgin to tourists and campers in the same way Anawangin Cove was just a few years ago, there is a small out of the way town in Zambales home to a young lake formed after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
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Laiya, Batangas – April 28, 2012
Laiya, Batangas is a great beach just 2.5 hours south of Manila. Clear water, calm waters. great beach. It's definitely a peaceful alternative to Boracay. That said, aside from the beach... it lacks Boracay's nightlife and variety of activities.
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Easter Island – April 1-4, 2012
One of the “must-see” items on my bucket list has been to see Easter Island located 2,180 miles (3,510 kilometers) west of the coast of Chile in South America and is the south easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Ever since I was a child, I was always fascinated by pictures of the “big heads” and the theories over who built them and why (of course, these included the “they were built by aliens” theory).
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Anakena Beach, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Anakena is a white coral sand beach within Rapa Nui National Park. There are two Ahus on Anakena. One with six moai… another with one. According to island oral traditions, Anakena was the landing place of Hotu Matu'a, a Polynesian chief who led a two canoe settlement party here and founded the first settlement on Rapa Nui.
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Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Ahu Tongariki was the main centre and capital of the Hotu Iti, the eastern confederation of the Rapanui. Ahu Tongariki was substantially restored in the 1990s by a multidisciplinary team headed by archaeologists, in a five year project carried out under an official agreement of the Chilean Government, the University of Chile, and a group of Japanese.
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Akahanga, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Of the things I loved about this entire trip isn’t just the sightseeing… but the Cultural Adventure of learning about the history of the island and understanding the true story behind the awesome but mysterious Moai that blanket the Rapa Nui.
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Ahu Vinapu, Rano Kau, and Orongo, Easter Island – April 1, 2012
After trekking around on a self-guided walking tour of Hanga Roa during my first few hours on Easter Island, it was time for my first...
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Hanga Roa, Easter Island – April 1, 2012
Easter Island, Day 1. The plane from Lima lands on Easter Island’s Mataveri International Aiport at around 5:30am after two long flights totally around 14 hours from San Francisco. It was a comfortable ride on LAN Air and slept most of the time. In the afternoon was my first encounter with awesome Moai
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Getting to Easter Island – March 31 – April 5, 2012
Planning my trip to Easter Island wasn’t as much of a challenge as I expected. Granted that Easter Island is said to be to “the most remote inhabited island in the world.” A high school classmate of mine, and fellow adventurer, Gabby Malvar, is the only other person I personally know who has been to Easter Island. When I asked him how to get there, he told me it was “complicated” to get there, requiring several transfers and modes of transportation. Perhaps I heard him wrong, but that is what stuck to my mind. When I actually researched it… it wasn’t that complicated at all.
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