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Lighthouse at Brooke’s Point, Palawan

March 4, 2013 by Josiah Leave a Comment

After our adventure trek to Bacbacan Falls, Makinit Hot Spring and Cabcaben River the next stop of our Tricycle tour around Brooke’s Point, Palawan would be to go around their town proper. And our goal was to visit the famous lighthouse reportedly build by Sir James Brooke himself. We went there after a quick visit at St. Joseph Parish Church, also located at the town proper.

Brooke’s Point Lighthouse as seen from the beach near Port Miller

Upon arrival at the Brooke’s Point Lighthouse, the gate was closed and we asked around on how we could get to the other side of the gate to get near the lighthouse. A lady pointed us to a Philippine Coast Guard, one of the few that were guarding and operating the lighthouse. We asked kindly if we could enter to get close to the lighthouse and luckily, he opened the gate and let us through.

There were two lighthouse inside. One was tall, white and new, it was the new and operational one to guide seafarers. The smaller one was the original lighthouse that was believed to be build by the British explorer Sir James Brooke.

Dong Ho was the first one to go up the smaller lighthouse while I was observing a peculiar stove that borders between the medieval and the modern.

Cabcaben River at Brooke’s Point, Palawan

February 28, 2013 by Josiah Leave a Comment

After our trek to Bacbacan Falls in Brgy. Mainit, Brooke’s Point, Palawan during our Southern Palawan trip, our guide told us that we can still go visit the Cabcaben River nearby. He said that there’s a trail nearby but it would be faster for us to ride the tricycle to the river.

It took us less than 10 minutes to arrive at Cabcaben River. We then walked towards the hanging bridge. The bridge was about 75 to 100 meters long.

Walking to the Hanging Bridge

Bacbacan Falls and Makinit Hot Spring at Brgy. Mainit, Brooke’s Point, Palawan

February 27, 2013 by Josiah 1 Comment

It was the third stop of out Tricycle Tour around Brooke’s Point, Palawan and we were headed to Barangay Mainit to visit their waterfalls and Makinit hot spring. We entered then a compound with cottages. That’s where we learned that a resort was being built on the vicinity, it’s name will 7 Falls Hot Spring and Nature Park.

On our way to Brgy. Mainit

We talked with the staff of the place and asked if we could be guided to Bacbacan Falls. They were quite busy that time as they were planning to plant papayas around. When they had decided on who will be guiding us to Bacbacan Falls, we then wrote on their logbook and started walking.

Entrance Fee

We were first walking on the vicinity of the soon to be resort. There were a lot of construction. We passed by some small swimming pools. According to our guide was arranged in an alternating pattern. One is hot water, then the other is natural spring water.

Tricycle Tour around Brooke’s Point, Palawan

January 8, 2013 by Josiah 4 Comments

After realizing that our mission to go to the southernmost municipal of Palawan in the port of Rio Tuba, Bataraza has failed, we rode a tricycle back to the terminal of RORO Bus (20 Pesos/person, 15 minutes) and rode a bus going to Brooke’s Point (132 Pesos/person, 1.5 hours) to spend the night and start early to go around.

Brooke’s Point

We woke up at our lodging in Brooke’s Point around 6AM to prepare for the whole day of adventure.

Before we left the lodging, Dong Ho and I had a small discussion whether to leave our things and go back to get them when we had finished the tour. We decided that we will be bringing our bags as we go around because we do not have a fixed itinerary. A chance to visit an awesome place a bit far from the lodge may occur and it would be a bummer to say no to it due to our stuff.

Ate at the eatery/karinderya at RORO Bus station and asked around on how we could visit the tourist spots of Brooke’s Point. Luckily, we found a tricycle driver and he said that the standard rate for touring around Brooke’s Point in a tricycle was 80 Pesos/hour. Not bad compared to some I’ve seen.

Without further ado, here are the places and things that happened to us while we were touring Brooke’s Point.

7:30 AM Start of Tricycle Tour from RORO Bus Terminal.

7:47 AM Arrival at Barangay Oring-Oring Beach where the largest pearl was found.

Brgy. Oring-Oring Beach where the largest pearl in the world was found.

7:51 AM Left for Ocean Spring.

8:07 AM Arrival at Ocean Spring, a spring water in the middle of the sea water just near the beach.

Lodgings on our Southern Palawan trip

September 17, 2012 by Josiah 7 Comments

When Dong Ho and I met at Puerto Princesa airport we only had one plan in mind and that was to go as far south of Palawan as possible and back in 3 days. No concrete itineraries, just plain passion to see personally what is there.

We were targetting the island municipality of Balabac, unfortunately, the boat going there already left 2 hours before we arrived at the pier of Rio Tuba. Though the accommodations at the pier was really tempting as I have not experienced sleeping on a house on stilts, but it was still 3 o’clock in the afternoon and we could still cover more ground. That’s when we decided that we would go back to Brooke’s Point and stay there for the night to get an early start to go around the next day.

At the stopover of Roro Bus in Brooke’s Point we were asking around on where we could stay for the night when one of the staff in the cafeteria told us that the establishment beside was in fact a lodging. We went there, asked for the price of their fan room (300 pesos/room/night) and decided to stay there for the night as the room was okay with our standards.