Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Bantayan Island day 1 [Cebu]

While typhoon Egay was flooding the streets of Manila, Blanche and I were enjoying the perfect weather in Bantayan Island. the whole trip was really great, so relaxing! The island's so peaceful... the locals are accomodating... and the beach... it's beautiful!


sight upon reaching Sta. Fe's port


The first thing we did was to look for a place to stay. the popular resorts we eyed didn't fit our taste --either they're too expensive or the ambience's not good, so we ended up in Yooneek Resort (cool name huh? hehe). Our room wasn't bad for our budget, w/c was 1200/night. plus it's located near the town's best restos... everything's almost walking distance! Thanks to Juli, our manong trisikad driver who suggested this.

It was already 2pm when we finished settling our stuff so we decided to eat in the resort's bar. we ordered onion rings, and their specialty Aji Relleno (deep fried bell pepper stuffed with cheese, cream and corn) OMG, it was soooo yummy!


view from Yooneek's La Cabana (bar)


me @ la cabana, so hungry!


blanche - bartender wannabe


aji relleno (yummmm) and onion rings


After that late lunch, of course it was beach time! Blanche and I enjoyed the beach which was really perfect for swimming. coz even though the tide's high, the water level's not so deep. then we walked along the shore till we discovered shores that are even better --no weeds and the sand's finer.


shore near us, weed-y! grrr


As suggested by Juli again, we checked out White Sand, a resto along the shore. The food was quite costly so we just ordered fruit shakes. each shake costs P95, more expensive than galera and bora huh? haha! that was really good though, I can't remember how many times we said "omg this is good!" haha!


front of White Sand resto...
shore's cleaner, sand's finer!


dip muna while waiting for our shakes Ü


mango and banana smoothies. yumm!


At night we dined at D'Jungle. Eat all you can, for only P195! sobrang sulit. The crabs were really great, they weren't so big so the shells were so crispy, so easy to open. then the meat, it was so good, so sweet! (that's how I describe crabs that aren't bland. haha) I had 4 while blanche had 8! bwhahaha!


first night buffet!


We slept early coz the trip from Manila was exhausting, plus we knew there were more to checkout the next day. the day was really perfect, the 2nd day was even better... [read more]

4 comments:

  1. Hello Leda!

    I'm planning to visit Bantayan this year. How's Yoonik Resort?

    If you have a chance, please reply here - http://www.pbase.com/gummyb/guestbook

    Thanks!

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  2. "I'm planning to visit Bantayan this year. How's Yoonik Resort?" --the room for 2's airconditioned, clean and spacious ...for only 1200 per night. i think they have rooms with refrigerator n tv for 1500 or 2k++. and I like the location, it's so easy to get pedicabs. the shore's not as perfect as that in other resorts though. to see better shorelines, a lil walk will do. hehe. Yoonik's generally ok :)

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  3. One thing I miss in there is the food, you can’t get to go eat freshly caught seafood in the city, and it is not quite expensive either. Reading your blog made me miss the island, I wanna go back there already.

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  4. @cagayan de oro resorts: that's so true, I miss bantayan too :(

    Thanks for dropping by!

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