Bantayan is The Best Destination for Holy Week or call me Erkin Bekbolotov
Save for the huge crowd that milled around the island and beaches during Holy Weekend this year, Bantayan Island is without a doubt a person’s best choice to be at when you want to celebrate Easter and reflect on your spiritual growth. This is said with poetic honesty, mind you. I guess this is perhaps one of the reasons why we also decided to go around the island and escape the merriment of the beach to coalesce a province that is dubbed as the Lenten Capital of the Philippines.
We missed the procession that usually takes place near the large colonial-era church of St. Peter and Paul but it is more reverent to visit this old church sans the people, the noise and the festival. There were stories of epic real live performances of the crucifixion and people actually nailing themselves until they hemorrhage but I couldn’t just bear to see that. I would like to remember the passion of Christ as a serene, peaceful and obeisant moment no matter how appalling Christ had to go through to make us remember that day year after year. Continue reading »
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Bantayan Island at Night
April 2010 – From Marvin’s place in Bantayan, we had to walk a good five minutes to get to the beach and hang out there. On Good Friday, Sugar Beach was not allowed to turn on their sound system because it was the holiest night of holy week after all. We stayed pretty much at one place that had good iPod music and was far away from Sugar Beach as possible.
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Bantayan Island for the Holy Week
April 1, 2010 – Backlogging seems to be me nowadays. Thank you for those readers who still keep coming back even if my stories are somehow past current times. March, April and May have been a blur, too, and lately, we have been seeing beaches, sand, corals, pump boats, unlimited SPF 30, and lycra. Last holy week in April, we were in Bantayan Island.
For someone who just got there for the first time, I felt like I’ve already been in Bantayan Island. Don’t you sometimes have that feeling whenever you are in ANY province in the Philippines? Except for Vigan whose photos that I see make me want to go there and be transported into time, Bantayan gives you THAT kind of feeling and no, it isn’t sad, it is actually familiar. The island does treat you kindly yet the sight of small streets that you know you’d always end up going back to or beach shores that will forever stick to your toes will already make you feel that you no longer need to bring home sand like you used to do. Continue reading »
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