Mindoro’s most beautiful garden
Blazing scarlet and orange crotons welcome guests when they enter this weekend getaway in Calapan, Mindoro. Alighting from the car, you enter this tropical garden of exuberant foliage and striking
Blazing scarlet and orange crotons welcome guests when they enter this weekend getaway in Calapan, Mindoro. Alighting from the car, you enter this tropical garden of exuberant foliage and striking
The Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) Festival, recently held in the coastal town of Odiangan, Romblon, a province with many islands and areas with strong potential for tourism, was,
For hundreds of years they lived unnoticed and unknown, eight Mangyan tribes in the mountains of Mindoro. They harvested rice, corn, bananas and wild yam, and bathed in rivers and streams. They enjoyed the wisdom of innocence and the courage of strong men. And while their customs differed, they lived in gentle harmony and never had tribal wars.
Every scuba-diver will tell you that gearing up is the most tedious part of the sport—donning several pounds of lead weights, a steel tank, regulators, a buoyancy compensator, a wetsuit that’s very hot and tight on land. And then, you hit the water—and you fall in love all over again.
Scuba divers will never stop telling you: The Philippines is one of the best places in the world to dive. Just ask dedicated locals as well as visitors from all over the world, including award-winning underwater photographers and marine biologists, who come for stuff big and small.
Apart from the captivating ambience of Puerto Galera, there is much to discover and experience in the province of Oriental Mindoro, an hour and 10 minutes ride via fast craft from the Port of Batangas City.
With the likes of Jimmy Cliff and Joss Stone playing, it’s the rare music aficionado who can resist the song of the siren beckoning.
It almost feels as if the country’s faith is being tested, with a supertyphoon immediately following a super earthquake, and the casualty statistics hitting not only hundreds but the tens of thousands.
I’ve driven alone as far as Mindoro and back, sleeping in the car aboard a boat that also had a truck of noisy pigs screeching for their lives beside me. So I understand how, like the drivers in the avant-garde Japanese foodie movie “Tampopo,” you can be so tired and hungry that you can consume an entire bowl of ramen.
One rainy morning on the 27th of August this year, a group of outdoor enthusiasts from Calapan City went to Paitan, a barangay in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro. They biked their way to the village before embarking on a trek in the hills of Sitio Bugnay.
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