DIY Two-Day Bantayan Trip

📅 Itinerary
Day 1.
From mainland Cebu, we arrived on the island at 5am via roro. Our hostel, #casaisabel doesn't open until 6am so we asked our driver to drop us at a nearby 24-hr Silogan house so we could have our bfast. Afterwhich, we took a nap, sleeping the morning away bec we were so tired and sleepy from our 4-hr bus ride the night before (gor issues 😅). Then around lunch, we went to Ogtong Cave. We paid P300 each for the entrance. We swam our hearts out there for an hour.

Next, we went to The Ruins which is nearby Ogtong. To our surprise, we saw our name painted on its wall so we had fun taking a picture with it. It was windy & low tide around that time so there was no cliff jumping.

Then we went to the market to buy fresh seafood for dinner. Casa allows us free use of their kitchen so we just DIYd our dinner.

Day2:
First on the list was the Mangrove where the famous Camp Sawi & Camp Wagi are. Entrance is P75 each. T'was quite an eventful day. My hubby accidentally dropped his phone in the water and dove after it! Thank goodness he retrieved it still alive so I guess his brief adventure was worth it afterall 😅. Bantayan trinklets are sold there too.

Then we went to Bantayan to buy dried fish, choco lanay & had his phone cleaned. I'd say u should also see their church! It is magnificent.

Our last stop was Kota Park in Madridejos. There, we basked in the beauty of the sunset. Truly, and as always, Bantayan sunsets do not disappoint.

Back in 2019, there used to be a small restaurant in Kota that served crab meat. I couldn't forget it & was hoping to try it out again with my hubby. But apparently, it isn't there anymore so we decided to call it a day & went back home to Sta Fe.

Day3:
It was time to go back to the city. But before that, we hit the beach! Beaches in Sta Fe are just walking distance from most hotels around the area. Normally, they're white sand and crystal clear. But then we came at a time when typhoons Dante and Crising just left PH plus the Habagat winds were making the water rough and murky so we just chose not to bother it anymore. We just sat there by its shore, breathing in the seabreeze (or wind), listening to the crashing of its rough waves, and just soaking it all in and appreciating how blessed we are and how good life is.

All in all, it was just a short but sweet trip. We did not even have a well planned-out itinerary. We just wanted to breathe. Luckily, we have Bantayan in our midst, our sweet respite.