A well deserved Bolinao trip

This will be my very first travel blog. I've visited a couple of provinces and some other tourist attractions before, but unfortunately, because of my busy schedule, I wasn't able to find time blogging those escapades. My most recent adventure was in Bolinao Pangasinan. It was our team building. Our assembly time was 4:00am, but because of our very own Filipino nature, we left Ortigas (our meeting place) at around 5am.

It took us about 6 hours from Manila to Bolinao Pangasinan (thanks to our super adrenaline-rushed driver),  which is considerably fast compared to what was told to us which is 7-8hrs travel time.We had our lunch at the town proper where we also bought our foods for our 3D2N stay. There was this old church, near the market, that reminded me so much of Barasoain church in Bulacan. There was a souvenir shop on the side and a couple of monuments and other man made sculpture around the church.

After a couple of minutes from the town proper, we finally arrived at our resort. It was own and managed by a foreigner (maybe her/his name was Bing) according to its care taker.

        

We rented the "kubo" type house that could accommodate 15 person (by the way, we paid it for 20k. No kidding!) for 3 days. It has its own dinning, cooking, living room area. All rooms (3 rooms in total, every room has 3 beds) are air-conditioned plus it has its own bath & toilet (which should really be the case). No cable tv available. But renting of videoke could be arranged (if I remembered it right, it cost around 700 for 24hrs) though. I would really suggest that you buy all you need (such as mineral water, tube iced, soda, bread, chips, & liquor) in the city before going to the resort because everything sold there is too expensive! (they sell ice for Php 5 each!).

But aside from the costly priced items and no cable tv, everything is pretty good. The picturesque scene of the blue-green beach really captured us. It was an amazing sight.

Although the sand is not too wide and lengthy on the side of beach that we stayed, the strong waves, specially during in the afternoon, made our day. 

The food was great too! My team mates grilled a couple of bangus (milk fish), tilapia and pork liempo. It was a feast! Really good food!

Our Bolinao adventure is really a well deserved break from a stressful kind of work and environment that we have in Manila. It was relaxing. We don't even want to go back to our real world after it. Well, everything, even a well planned vacation, has to end, But this won't be our last time visiting this place. This province has a lot to offer and we will soon find out whether Bolinao has come up to the challenge.  

(For more pictures of my Bolinao trip, visit: http://traveladdict0323.multiply.com/photos/album/1)