SUBSCRIBEEnjoying Bicol
Bicol has lots and lots of surprises. The butandings (whale sharks) in Donsol, Sorsogon were just awesome! Never mind if what we saw that day were the baby sharks, but what the heck, they’re still whale sharks. Fast and elusive, I missed my first shot when one swam past a little under our motorized banca but I just made me shout with joy. Add to the fact that the tour was free and the delicious seafood.
Beautiful daragang magayon Mt. Mayon never ceases to astound. Just this afternoon, I had a close view of it at the Mayon resthouse and it was a thrill seeing thick white smoke emanating fast from its crater. While cruising around it, its silhouette marvels. Sometimes it cloaks itself with thick clouds then shows itself. Hides and shows, hides and shows. There’s also a part of the highway wherein besides this mountain, the other volcanoes come into view: Mt. Iriga and Mt. Isarog.
The old Spanish era Catholic churches in Barcelona, Sorsogon and those in the first district of Albay: Sto. Domingo, Tiwi, Bacacay, Malilipot and Malinao. Monuments to this land’s rich cultural heritage that are most of the time being spruced up and renovated.
And of course the food: pinangat, which is gabi leaves cooked with gata (coconut extract) and the halo-halo in Tiwi, Albay even if it is much hyped and touted but it still tastes like halo-halo.
