budget diy day-tour beachbumming
May 21, 2011 Saturday
objective: to be able to experience white fine sands at a very low budget.
additional tasks: to confirm if this island is a threat to the world's famous boracay island.
I have once again hitched another set of unknown friendly and very accommodating group, c/o Yuri et al in an online travel forum, to satisfy my eagerness in visiting this popular underrated white beach. If you really want to go on an adventure mode of budget traveling, knowledge of schedule on earliest and last trip of public bus bound to destination is very essential. In this case, we went to an air-con bus of Philtranco liner in Pasay City. For a Camarines Norte trip, the following are the last trip from Pasay on daily basis (as of May 2011).
Daet - aircon bus - 2000H - php580
Panganiban - aircon bus - 1830H - php580
Since
we arrived at 1930H, we have no choice but to avail the Daet bound. Supposedly, Panganiban is the top priority but we didn't researched the
departure times. Fortunately, there were 3 passengers that didn't
arrived which was the exact count of my group. And so there it goes, we
left Pasay at 2000H. Around
0100H we spent 1st stop-over to Gumaca, Quezon and left after 30
minutes. at 0400H, we dropped-off to Talobatib, Camarines Norte. Then, rode a
tricycle bound to Bato-Balani crossing. By the way, if you ride the Panganiban-bound trip, bus will drop-off exactly to Bato-Balani
crossing. But the bad news, you will be there as early as 0230H.
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| Marine Bay Sands skypark cloud formation above calaguas |
