A day in Tandag City

Tandag Boulevard: A view from Shacene by the sea

San Ncolas de Tolentino Cathedral (old church)

Goldbar Restaurant ( Seafood Restaurant in Tandag)

Laswitan Lagoon

Laswitan lagoon is located in Cortes, Surigao del Sur. It takes a 9kilometers motorcycle ride from the Cortes junction. It is best to arrange your travel with the Municipal Tourism Office of Cortes so you can visit other attractions near Laswitan. 

Laswitan is a salt-water lake. You can see huge rock formations along the shoreline that created three basins that makes it look like a lake, also high waves will create a waterfall-like in the rock formations. The place is best visited in months of November to March.

the tarp located in the junction of Cortes

the second basin where people swim. It is 15ft deep

All in all I enjoyed the rock formations and swimming of course. Thanks to my friends Lifeiz and Rambu for the company.

Camiguin White Island

This is an unplanned getaway with my future adventure buddy (my son). We are just so bored since it's already summer and we both want to hit the beach. Camiguin Island is bus and a ferry away from home but we had the courage to travel since the place is best know as one of the great place to visit on summer.

It took 2 hours bus ride from home to Balingoan then we took a ferry to Benoni for an hour and a half. The kid enjoyed the trip since it is his first time to ride an open-air ferry. From Benoni port we took a jeep to Mambajao for our accomodation at GV Hotels and booking of a 24-hour motorcycle for rent that only cost 500Php. After settled we headed to Ardent Hot Spring for swimming then at the public beach just in Mambajao. We spent the rest of the day having a good rest for our early trip to White Island.

@ the ferry

We got up early had our breakfast at a friend's place in Mambajao then headed to Paras Beach Resort to take a boat to White Island. 

the White Island 

having fun playing with the sand

feeling the summer heat

That's all for our White Island adventure. Hope we can get back to this paradise-like place.

tried Mambajao's fish ball and making friends with the vendor. :)