Zambales Trip - Anawangin Cove & Capones Island

Last Saturday we decided to have a vacation and this time we tried going to the famous Anawangin Cove located at Zambales.  We woke up early morning around 3 AM to commute via Victory liner in Pasay.  Bus fare (aircon) is only P275 pesos going to Iba Zambales, we dropped off to San Antonio Market and rented a tricycle going to Pundaquit beach.  

At Pundaquit beach, we rented for a boat to take us there.  We paid for P1,500 for anawangin cove and capones island hopping.  Rental fee is already for 2 way trip, for the entire group!

More photos while on the boat :)

This is Capones Island.  I must say, the rock formations and the entire beach is really amazing! We decided to hang out for a while to take some photos.  

We experienced Capones for aboutan hour just to take photos, we headed to Anawangin Cove after because that's we we're about to Camp.

Some sceneries while on our way to Anawangin... This was really amazing!

Finally we made it here at Anawangin Cove camp site.  There's a lot of people when we arrived, good thing we had a spot to build our tent.

Building our tent...

The use of this table is free.  For overnight campers, the fee is only P100 per head.

Oh how i loved the Sunset :)

There's no electricity and Network signal at Anawangin so it's really best to have bonfire or have led lights or flashlight with you.  You can buy chopped woods there but it's really expensive around 200 pesos.  But for us, we decided to roam around and just gather some wood and then fire it up! Lol

We spent the night in the camp site and slept in our tents.  It's my first time to camp so i was really excited. 

The next morning we decided to go on hiking on this beautiful mountain.  There's already trail so climbing up there was not that hard.  It only took us about 45 minutes to reach the top.  And I would say that the view was really amazing! You can see the 360 degree of the entire Cove up there.

After that tiring and body sweating hiking on the mountains, we got excited to go on Swimming! The beach water is clear and kind of greenish, it's really inviting! 

After that super fun swimming, we prepared already to gome home, we asked the boatman to pick up us at around 2 PM.

More pictures before going home... We really enjoyed staying here at Anawangin!

We got hungry so we decided to looked for a restaurant to eat our lunch.  Some guys told us to go on this restaurant called "Big foot" 

Overall,our vacation was a success! Anawangin Cove is really a fun and nice place! You can find serenity in that place... Just enjoying the beach and its mountains and just camping there was really a great experience! I love the idea that it has no electricity and signal, and so you can really have a good time with your friends or family.  We are looking forward for our next vacation, soon! :)

Ciao! :)

Visiting San Jose, Nueva Ecija

We went to San Jose, Nueva Ecija because my sister's hubby wanted to visit his brother there.  Nueva Ecija is up north and we travelled about 5 hours to get there.  It was really a long drive, and it was kinda tiring to travel.  I thought Nueva Ecija is like those typical provincial like, but I was surprised that it's like living in the city! Restaurant's and establishments are everywhere.  

With mom and nephew Max

We went to a certain "Diamond Park" and the place was really big.  It feels like a forest, with lots of trees, playground and some food stalls inside the premise.  There were also cottages with videokes which can be rented for only P50! No entrance free but you should pay for parking. 

Having fun at the store, eating halo halo LOL

Road sightings 

Kiddos and their dad riding the "tricycle"

Family Outing 2015

My sister and her family just came home from the U.S.  Our entire family went to Matabungkay Beach for our family swimming :)

Having fun at the beach

At the balsa

Hubby and I trying the Jetski (loved it!)

After Matabungkay, we decided to stopped over at Tagaytay City for lunch.

Bulalo for lunch with entire fambam

Visiting Via Dolorosa (White Cross) & Hinulugang Taktak

Today is lenten season, most of us are having time with our families to reflect and also to have a vacation because it's holiday.  So today, me and hubby decided to go on a trip to Antipolo City again.  Actually, it's not the first time we visited this city. But I must admit, it is one of my favorite place because first, it's near Metro Manila (travel time less than an hour only!), and second because there are a lot of places and landmarks to visit to.

We wanted to pray to church so we headed straight to the famous "Antipolo Cathedral".  It's Good Friday today so we expected that there were a lot of people (those who went for "Alay-lakad"). We just rode with our Mio Scooter.  Travel from Taguig to Antipolo took us about 45 minutes. 

This is the facade of "Antipolo Cathedral"

The altar inside the church.

We heard about "Via Dolorosa" is just around Antipolo and so we decided to go there too.  Via Dolorosa or also known as White Cross is a sacred place where you can see stations of the cross, and large religious statues.  As expected, they were a lot of people visited the place.  Via Dolorosa is open for public and has no entrance free.  The place is really great, however as you pass through each station of the cross it's quiet hard to walk because the path is getting steeper (because of the uphill and downhill way).  It was really tiring walking and trecking just to pass through each station, but I should tell you that it's worth it!  It is something that you should never miss.  You can pray each station and stop for a moment yo reflect as what we did.  Oh by the way,on the entrance gate, visitors are not allowed to bring food and drinks inside because they wanted to maintain the cleanliness of the place and ofcourse all were asked to keep quiet as much a possible. 

The entrance gate - Via Dolorosa.

Jesus with his diciples.

Stations of the Cross.

At the end of the Stations, there is a large White Cross.  

Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage statue at the tip of the hill. 

Indeed, Via Dolorosa is a nice place for us to go to this Lenten season.  I definitely recommend it!

Just before Via Dolorosa, you can pass by the famous "Hinulugang Taktak".  There's no entrance fee here and parking space is free.  They said that the government of Antipolo made an effort to re-open this place and made it more attractive to visitors.  On the entrace, people are required to log in or register on their logbook and also lighters, cigarettes and bladed weapons are not allowed inside.  Cottages are also free for all and you can bring food and have some picnic inside if you wish to.

Although the falls is inviting, still it is not that clean to swim to.  Swimming is not allowed in the falls, I noticed some bubbles forming below the falls which indicates that its still not that clean.  But I must say the entire place is clean and well maintained, so Kudos to the government of Antipolo for making an effort to relive this place!

So there you go! Our trip to Antipolo on this Lenten Season :)