Bantayan Island for the Holy Week

The Glamarazzi by Kristine Roa Blog | Bantayan Island

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 »