Ibalong Festival 2013 plus

Ibalong is a festival in Legazpi City, Albay celebrating the epic story of the town of Ibalong with its three heroes: Handiong, Baltog and Bantong and other heroes. The Street presentation was usually the highlight of the event. I am not a fan of Ibalong festival but i usually take photowalks during its street presentations. I always enjoy the colors of the festival, the people and the pretty faces of Albayanos dancing on the street and doing ibalong stuffs.

For this year, i am with the MPCI people and yah, enjoyed their company. Actually, we were not able to watch the exhibition because uh! tiring.. After the almost 5km walk from Albay Park to LCC, we were so dead tired. Especially in my part because of the Volleyball thingys i did in the morning. My arms are so in pain.. my whole body i mean. Plus the tanning effect of the sun that time was sooooo strong (LOL).

Just right after the Ibalong st presentation, we went straight to Legazpi Blvd. to cover the Grand Marian Procession. O_O We walked another 5km again from LCC to the very end of the Blvd. So tiring that my body was so so feeling stressed. (Sorry body! :D).

Enjoyed this hectic day after all. Promise i’ll rest today and give my body a massage grande haha…

(photo credit: Sir Custer Cano for the Grand Marian Procession photos)

Exploring Sorsogon – Brgy. Diamante, Prieto Diaz

This trip to Prieto Diaz really helped me appreciate the beauty of underwater world. The diversity of organisms living on this place made me realize that the wonders of life really comes on different perspective.

For us biology students, Barangay Diamante, Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon is known as a venue for most of our field study adventure because the place is well known for its biodiversity-rich area.

My team was assigned to study and assess the diversity of Class Echinoderms, which is really very diverse on that place. Most of the organisms we got are sea urchins, star fishes, sea cucumbers and so on. I really had a lot of fun during our work. I guess we are the luckiest team because we were able to experience everything especially the place where we need to conduct our sampling; the sea grass area, the sand area, the corals, and most of the diving sites. At first, we were really afraid to dive and do the task. Well, aside from the fear of what is underwater that we don’t know, we had a hard time constructing our line transect, which is a very important method in conducting our study. But thanks to the very active and supportive staffs of the SEAMANCOR and also to our professors who really made efforts in helping us during the hard times.

Lesson learned: It’s good that you have a DSLR camera but it’s better if you also have an underwater camera. For this trip, i failed to bring one, Uh! Failed to take good photos of the underwater world.

Antatars goes Libon

I believe it’s not too late to blog this. Haha. This is last summer and i completely forgot to share this Haha. This is one of my escapades in Libon, Albay and i am with my Antatars friends. Had so much fun during this trip. Super explore :)))

It’s really more fun if you gonna go on an adventure and you won’t bring your own car. More fun to ride on public vehicles because you will really learn a lot of things.

My younger sister and jamyr.. The view

For us to have something for dinner, we helped in pulling the nets to the shore and collect all the fishes and jelly fishes yay

Dried

Had a walk at the shore.. just checkin’ the place

Pantao is a very progressive barangay despite of its distance from the mainland..

Sinegwelas Tree

While waiting for the sunset :))

Here we go.. Our favorite.. SUNSET ❤

Night Life..

Island hopping time…

We’re like crazy crazy crazy when we got to Bantigue Island..

That is all. Failed to document the last part. Hehe. This is in Pantao, Libon Albay. 1hour away from the mainland of Polangui. You can visit a lot of beautiful places here. Really the best. It’s more fun! 😀