Dose of X: WEEKEND GETAWAY - PANGASINAN Part II

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WEEKEND GETAWAY - PANGASINAN Part II

Published Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by XY | E-mail this post

Day 3 (Sunday)
Bolinao is a coastal town lined up with many resorts fronting the South China Sea. Bing's Resort, where we stayed at, is one of them. It's a quiet little place, renting 5 airconditioned rooms and one function room, where the lone karaoke machine sits (and that piece of information is, of course, uber essential, harhar). Undoubtedly, the previous night could have ended much later, if the function room was not occupied by a group of teachers and administrators who, expectedly, hogged the karaoke. God help their singing, we had to improvise a game for us to drown the sound away :p

Sunday morning was lovely. Woke up to the sound of the waves. It was low tide, so we walked towards the sea, until the water was around our ankles. Light breeze brushing our hair, summer sun smiling upon us - it was the perfect summer day.

After breakfast, we headed to Cape Bolinao lighthouse, the second tallest in the Philippines. And yes, it's still functional (apparently, self-operating). We weren't able to climb up, so we just took some pictures, then headed towards the tip of Bolinao. We checked out Treasures (one of the more famous resorts in Bolinao). Then we went to Nilly's, the resort next door (where apparently Ruffa Gutierrez shot some scenes for the movie Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop remake).

We soaked it up some more, and after a snack of Bida (Boy Bawang's competition), we reluctantly left paradise to make one last stop in our weekend getaway.

Enchanted Cave is an underground cave with fresh water. The water was quite deep, so we just stayed by the rocks. Cool and refreshing, and the perfect last stop before we finally went back to our resort for another feast, a.k.a. lunch. After lunch, we satisfied our karaoke craving while the rest were getting ready. We finally headed back to Manila around 4PM.

The ride back home was much more calm, and all of us were really sleepy. We stopped at the Luisita Mall for dinner and Starbucks, and I was home shortly after midnight, Monday morning.

Pangasinan was definitely a lovely getaway. Reminded me of my parent's coastal town in Cebu, as well as the coastal towns we visited back in Costa Rica. Lovely doesn't even do justice.

This is what summers should be like :)