Funny how I'm posting my travel adventure so late. Anyway, last summer this is the only beach I was able to go to out of 3 planned beaches. But 2 of them will push through this year so I'm not really drowning myself to devastation
So here's my follow-up post of our Zambales trip. It is a slight DIY budget trip since we look for someone who will accommodate us beforehand concerning our boat ride, tents, food, utensils, and other possible activities to be done there.
And the usual, I'm in charge of locating and arranging our trip. I believe there is nothing that you can't find on google. haha! Whenever I have questions or things I wanna know I googled it, I know I'm not the only one. It offers a lot of results of what you are looking for.
Zambales DIY trip. There are a lot of results with this search and very helpful of course. But as I have noticed, mostly they offer a minimum of 12 pax and cost too much if you're less than that number. As for us, we're only 4 who will have the trip.
Zambales DIY trip is not really costly. If you want to enjoy the sun and beach and the sea and its boat ride on a tight budget, Anawangin Zambales is one of the choices. Cheap it is. As I'm doing a research on who can help us with this trip I came across this facebook page who happens to offer different packages and deals at Zambales. For a first timer, I believe it's cheaper with them.
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For transportation:
We get in touch with Victory Liner. You can check their schedules here http://www.victoryliner.com/schedules/ Trip to Iba, Zambales cost around 350 and the bus leaves as early as 5:30 am. Since we will came from far place(bulacan) we decided to take the 5:30am ride. We arrive at Iba, Zambales at around 11 am. From there, we take a trike ride courtesy of the one we contacted and is included on the package we take.
When going home. Our contact who also manage van transfers offer it to us. This one specific group will take the van but the back seats are still available. The drop off will be at GMA Kamuning, its just a one bus ride away from us and since it will not be hassle for us to ride a bus we take it. Its just I forgot how much we pay for it but I'm pretty sure its almost 400 pesos.
For the Island:
Each of us contributed 600 pesos. This includes transportation from town proper to pundakit, boat transfer from port to anawangin island, boat tour to capones or camara island, lighthouse trekking, 2days 1 night stay in anawangin, entrance fee, tent (good for 4), snorkeling, cooking utensils,charcoal, cooler with ice, mineral water 5 gallons, bonfire woods 1 set and kitchen utensils.
We think we got it cheap, in a manner that we will not be bringing those specially the cooler and mineral water and cooking utensils all the way from Bulacan, since we don't have a private car to cover for it.
Total:
1350 Pesos
Of course there are other expenses but if you have 1,500 it will do just fine.
ps. I'm so sorry if I can't provide the contact person, I misplaced the number but I will do my best to look for it.
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I know. It took long before I ended this travel adventure at Puerto Galera, my set of photos gone by the time and was able to recover just today, so here it is. Second day of our stay at Puerto Galera. If you want to read my previous post about this one you can find the link here for budget friendly PG trip, adventure begins, and night life at PG.
We never really had an idea on what to do at Puerto Galera. Good thing, the place we've stayed in organize series of different activities we can choose from on a tight budget! If you remember my post on budget friendly PG trip, I've mentioned that we grab the adventure package for only 700 pesos, this includes: island hopping, fish feeding (with food for the fish), and coral reef viewing, plus the shoes that we used for only 50 pesos. 750 pesos each for the five of us. They also offers kayaking, parasailing, and many more that we didn't get because we wanted to take a rest after the island hopping. Nakakapagod po sya! haha!
Anyway, here are the photos on our island hopping. I can't help but admire the beauty of Mindoro. This is truly one of the best places I've been to. I can attest to that. The water is clean and fresh. Paradise it is!
Have I told you I don't know "really" how to swim? Bet I do. Because I don't. I can swim swim but not swim swim on deep surface! So this island hopping is a mixture of so many feelings! plus I don't know if there's any dangerous creature on the sea that might bite me hahahah ganon ako kakaba that time! But I don't forget to enjoy and be still somehow!
