Padre Burgos Quezon: Borawan Beach

Borawan Beach
Padre Burgos, Quezon Province
October 26- 28, 2012


It was our 4th year anniversary as a cell group (our small group in our church), and so we decided to go off somewhere. It was just so lucky that one of our cell groupmate was from Batangas and offered to be our host in Borawan.

After our stop over in San Juan, Batangas, we headed over to Padre Burgos Quezon. The bus fare by the way from Cubao to San Juan is at 200 pesos. From San Juan, we rented a jeepney that will bring us to Quezon (the jeepney was from our friend's tito so we knew it was far too cheap from the usual rate, so better not to mention it anyway). The ride was around 5 hours. We traveled around 3am, so it was really dark. No wonder why it took us that long to reach Quezon.

Boat rental Rates

We saw ships being repaired at the Port

Island Hopping Rates

After logging in at the Department of Tourism Tourist Center at the Port, we rode a small motor boat.

After a five-minute ride, we reached the island. It was not really in Borawan Island that we stayed overnight, but the Island next to it. It was just low tide, so we were able to walk from the other Island to Borawan (Cool).

The Island was almost perfect for to be a setting of "Survivor".

There is no electricity, no tap water, just the wind and the ocean waters. The place was so amazing. We were all stunned to see such beautiful scenery.

Since there was nothing else to do, even we were all tired of the travel, we all started to explore the island.

The locals guided us to a small cave on top of the mountain.

It was one of the craziest decisions I've made for 2012. To climb a mountain with inexperienced climbers. We almost got ourselves killed (hahaha).

After we had lunch, we started walking to Borawan. We literally walked against the sea grasses and the strong waves (a storm has just passed that week). Borawan was a small deserted island. It was just enough, I'd say, to accommodate around  10 tents. It was that small. I personally wanted to see Borawan because according to what i read on blogs, it was Boracay and Palawan, rolled into one. I've never been to Palawan, so I could not compare the beaches, but to Boracay? Boracay was way too far. The sand in Borawan has lots of fine rocks and dead corals making it difficult to walk. Also, along the beach are large rock formations that seemed to be awkwardly placed in their positions.

One good thing though is that the place still has a very healthy ecosystem. Matter of fact, we saw snakes along the rocks, jellyfishes, and even large black eagle-like birds (I was not really sure eh?). Those kind of animals that you only get to see in themed parks.

Anyway, here are some more pictures. :D