With the summer season and Holy Week upon us, quench your thirst for that ice-cold buko juice and wanderlust for...
MANILA, Philippines — Miss Batanes Jan Alexis Alcano bagged the Best in Tourism Video award in the Miss Universe Philippines...
Still reeling from three moderate but destructive earthquakes which struck in just a day, the island-province of Batanes is definitely going to bounce back, rebuilding both lives and structures damaged by the tremors.
Green Faith Travels will bring Catholic pilgrims to Bicol and Batanes.
Brave enough to hop on a boat for a three-hour journey on rough seas? This is just the beginning of Don Lejano and DJ Clark’s adventure in the fourth episode of the Drone and Phone special featuring Batanes.
In the third episode of the Drone and Phone series in Batanes, DJ Clark went to climb the highest mountain in the province while Don Lejano ventured into finding the best places to eat around Basco.
In 1989, Batanes was a lot harder to visit. Flights got in only from Tuguegarao, Cagayan or Laoag in Ilocos Norte, and even then, you weren’t really sure you could get in—or out. For much of the year, the Philippines’ northernmost province was pretty inaccessible—they don’t call it the “Home of the Winds” for nothing—so people took advantage of a window.
In the second episode of the Drone and Phone special in Batanes, Don Lejano and DJ Clark braved the rough seas going to Sabtang Island. There they managed to do some trekking, visited a stone house village and had lunch by the beach.
INQUIRER.net joins China Daily in this new Drone and Phone series featuring the islands of Batanes. For the first episode, the show is featuring Mt. Matarem, a 500 meter-tall volcano, and other attractions on the island of Batan.
The Philippines has its own version of Shangri-la in the northernmost group of islands known collectively as Batanes. With a...
