I Wanna Dance in Zambales

I realize that my past posts have mostly been about food and this is turning out to be a food blog with just some scattered spurts of randomness. Gone are my musings, emotional rants, and tales of my extraordinary adventures. They've all been replaced by things I have chewed and gulped and the places where I chewed and gulped them. I guess I've just been too lazy to come up with a sensible writeup for everything that's been going on.

It's also a bit difficult to keep up with the mounting amount of things to write about. I tried to cram them all up in one post, but it's taking me too long to finish so I'm just gonna do one right now.

And this post is entitled "I Wanna Dance in Zambales!"

The back-to-back events last February left us longing for sun and sand and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The answer: 2 days in Zambales.

It was quite an adventure: drinking on the shore, wading along the beach, star-gazing, fire dancing, and just basically enjoying the relaxing time.

In the morning, we went island hopping, visiting Camara and Capones Islands.

There wasn't much to do in Camara except to cam-whore.

Capones was where the real adventure happened. Our search for the path to the famous Spanish-era lighthouse on the island had us walking around the island for hours under the scorching sun. I have to say, though, at least I got my tan because of it.

It was some hours of walk just to find the darn arrow that supposedly points to the path towards the lighthouse. Yes, it took us about 2 hours just to find the path.

The path was uphill and involved hanging on to ropes to successfully climb. So after the long walk along the shore, there we were walking among the shrubbery. Actually more of climbing, really, until we finally reached the lighthouse where we cam-whored some more.

We weren't much into the sight-seeing since only one of us wasn't acrophobic. While at the top of the lighthouse, we spend more than half the time holding on to the walls for dear life, although the view was undeniably splendid.

After the Capones Lighthouse adventure, our next and last stop was Anawangin cove.

The cove is known to campers, somewhere you can "feel close to nature". There are no air-conditioned rooms here.

No. We didn't camp out. Anawanging was just one of the 3 stops in our tour of Pundaquit. We really just wanted to experience swimming there.

It was quite a fulfilling vacation. In fact we loved it so much we're already planning to go back this November.