Sharing our piece of home with everyone who has the same point of view and principles that we have. Hide In will probably be new or old news to people who goes to beach regularly. And I believe that there are two types of beach goers out there.  The one looking for solidarity and peace of mind and the one lacking with sensitivity and just out there doing nothing but fun. Fun is good, but in moderation and with high sensitivity with their surroundings.

Hide In did not just offer comfort on your entire stay but a chance to be with, interact, and understands more the importance of Mother Nature. Be it in our two room accommodation with excellent view of different trees and the river at our backyard or camping and hammock at our camp grounds exactly right in the middle of the woods with just fresh air and the chirping of different kinds of birds and the sound of the leaves touching with each other as your company.

As you see, Hide In coexists with Mother Nature. Everything we do here benefits the environment. We are no pro, only love for our mother nature. We are just like most everyone before, we used too much plastics especially those one-time-use plastics, the disposables, and similar items that can harm our Earth and truly destroy it in the future. But we come to our senses; we realize different things and it broadened our views about eco-life by living near our seas and in the woodlands. The danger these things can do needs to stop and needs to put to end. Surely it will not stop in just a blink of an eye. It is a long process just as we are doing it. But it is better to do it now than to do it later. 

Our goal is to promote eco-friendly camp. That through our camp we can educate people especially our guests how to live harmoniously with our environment and how to take care of them and to make them understand the importance of them being taken care of by us even in the smallest things we do that we don’t think won’t matter. We discourage single-use plastics, we provide mineral drinking water for free at our camp; just bring your own refillable water bottle, we provide sets of utensils: water glasses, spoons and forks, and plates that you can wash after.

This home is not perfect. We are still in the process and still learning and doing everything we can in our own little ways to save our Mother Nature. Respect should be given to everyone around us. We cannot love everything but we can respect everything: the neighbors, the animals, the nature, and the beliefs of each one of us. Let us be one for our nature so the kids in the future, our kids can still enjoy what we have before, what we have now.

The Family that you will meet here can be your family too. Let’s hang out over bonfire while watching good old movies at night, or you can go surfing lesson for acceptable rate from us, our surfer boys will be delighted to assist you with the lesson, or you can play with our growing resident pets: Alfonso, Puti, and Noynoy, or you can try our homemade recipes especially our everyday silog tapa meal, or go sight-seeing on two different falls in our town, or help us monetary by buying souvenirs handcrafted by us.

I fell in love with Romblon the moment I saw the photos on the internet and the possible pristine beach I will soon set foot. It’s been almost three months since I left my job and was hired and soon to start another chapter on this company but I wanted to cross one province and just take on a vacation before I start the job.

There’s no better choice than the province you’re supposed to visit but failed so here I am traveling to Romblon.

Romblon is another islets from 1707 islands of the Philippines. The Romblon itself has three islets: Sibuyan, Romblon, and . Climbing Mt. Guiting Guiting is on my bucket list but I know I can’t yet that time and I really want to indulge on some beach so I chose to visit Romblon, Romblon, instead who happens to have enough beach you can choose from or visit all for they are all stunning.

I messaged my favorite travel buddy, Belle, and aske her if she can go with me on short notice, for I know she can and she will, she said yes, of course and we head to Romblon, Romblon.

Getting to Romblon, Romblon is time consuming for you need to ride a bus going to Batangas port and from there ride a ferry going to the island that may take up to 12 hours sea travel. But you may fly through PAL but of course refular fare is costly and they don’t have every day trip to the island.

It was a fun and another bucket list ticked off because I get to ride a ferry for the first time. We chose the economy which is a bad idea. If I’m not sleepy that night and tired from the bus travel I will not be able to sleep because of these men drinking alcohol and smoking and chatting so loudly as if they are the only people on the ferry, as if it is not night and the rest are already sleeping.

Moving on, I chose to stay at San Pedro Beach for it has the most inviting accommodation of all. The beach is really far away from city, well, the island itself is unspoiled and pure perfections. No any kind of pollution no factories no commercial establishments just pure local folks and I know from that moment on I fell in love. How can some place be like this so untouched and serene? It feels like Bantayan Island of Cebu and it is as perfect as like that.

If you prefer a quiet and peaceful and really a simple life Romblon Romblon is the best place for you. My friend is thinking of buying some land there actually for like me she fell in love with the island too.

Arriving at the beach I know we will have a good relaxing stay and we had. The place is just perfect and quite. Though its just 30 minutes from the port that place is secluded. There were no guests, just us, so it feels like we rent the whole beach all for ourselves. The beach was owned by --- and used to be a resthouse by the family but ---- needs to go to Manila for medication. They open the beach to travelers and offers a great deal. Glad they did!

The beach has eight nipa huts with bathroom inside. There are non- and aircondition room to choose from. They also have their own restaurant which serves Filipino cuisine and some international meals like English breakfast and pastas. I highly recommend the tuna pasta! I ordered that for three times during our entire stay! HAHA!

Whenever I visit a province the very first thing in my mind is that “how’s sunset there?” if you know me personally, I have a huge fascination with sunsets and I collect every sunsets to each place I visited. And Romblon has one of a kind sunsets, too! I just stare at it until it was gone and I knew then on that this place is one of the best place I’ve been to.

After eating dinner, of course, the tuna pasta again, we head back to our cabin and doze off.

I woke up early to catch sunrise but I know sunrise will be on the other side but fret not, the beach is all mine so picture time and swimming time! Ugggr writing this brings back all the memories from that trip. I miss that kind of ambience.

It was kinda late when my friend woke up and she head outside to run. After that we went on the other side of the beach to explore. We were fascinated by the school of fish!!! WOW! As in WOW! They were playing on the water as if they know we are watching them. I asked my friend if she wants to visit some other beach near the place for I really want to visit the sandbard but she says she’s fine with the San Pedro Beach and just want to stay in one of the hammock and rest, I can’t  blame her, for she’s busy about work and all and I just agree with her. Nothing beats a relaxing ambience by the beach.

After drinking more beer and staying more at the hammock we slept a bit for later that night we are going back to Manila.

Don’t worry about it being secluded, the beach has a contact for the tricycle so you can just asked them and tell them what time you want to be picked-up.

Romblon is so much peaceful at night. We waited for the ferry to arrive since it was delayed we stayed on this restaurant beside the port. I was craving real bad for sisig for our entire stay. Too bad the landlady at the beach don’t know how to cook sisig so yeah my cravings were heightened. The cook on the restaurant heard that we are looking for sisig. Heaven on earth and he asked the server to get the chicken and he will make a special sisig just for us. Thank you, po!

Romblon has so much to offer and I am looking forward to visiting the other islets and hopefully climb the Mt. Guiting Guiting in the next months.



The trip that makes me fall in love in Romblon dated last September 5-7 2016 is an official entry to my 81 Before 30 Challenge.