Corregidor

The Preserved Island of Historical Artifacts

We started planning this trip as early as January of this year; we were more than ten that time.
We were very excited because finally, most of our friends will be joining and thank God we had the we have availed the cheapest rate of Corregidor tour promo. We booked for trip March 12, 2011.

Due to the unfortunate event (tsunami)  happened in Japan (Match 11, 2011), we decided to cancel our trip. Because going to Corregidor will take more than 1hr of sea travel, just to be safe.

Many things happened after we cancelled our trip.
However, we still tried to reconcile our schedules because our tour promo is up to December 31, 2011 only. All effort have been exerted but most of our friends can't go and requested to have their tickets re-sell. So, Rhea and I decided to push this trip and asked our friend Brian if he wants to join us for Corregidor.

So there we were, December 3, 2011 at Corregidor -- The preserved island of historical artifacts.

We board at Sun Cruises ferry/boat around 7:30am and left Manila bay around 9am. (Sun Cruises is the only authorized company to sail from Manila to Corregidor and vice versa)

We were more than 200 passengers including tourists and crews inside the ferry/boat.

The travel took an hour or so then we arrived in Corregidor.

This is the Tranvia, the only allowed transportation for tourists in Corregidor. We're in Tramia no. 7.

This is Stella -- our historian and tour guide.
As I remember she's an on-call tour guide and doing this career for 9 already years.
If you listen to her attentively you'll discover a lot of new things from our history. Especially from what happened between the lines of our history book and the story missed by our history teacher during high school/College. I guess you need to go to Corregidor and find Stella. :)



Enough of me, I bring you Corregidor...

This is Stella sharing to us her experienced about the different versions of Corregidor history from point of Japanese and American.





At Malinta tunnel..

Random pictures...

Goodbye for now, next time overnight naman....

Lingayen and Sindayen

"I shall return" The famous words of Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur when he was forced to leave the Philippines due to Japanese invasion.

Indeed, he returned. After two years, he fulfilled his promised and returned to Philippines.

Together with his forces they arrived and landed in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

The Americans were victorious by accepting the surrender of Japan and the rest is history.

I have described Lingayen as a modern day historical landmark. Beautiful and progressive municipality of Pangasinan that you can no longer notice that it played an important role in our history. Unlike Corregidor, you can't find structures or buildings that were damage during WWII. However, artifacts and photos were placed in a small museum type within the vicinity of Provincial Capitol.

Some relics from the war like tanks, planes and anti-aircraft cannons are still there as if war is not yet over. :)

Lingayen beach is also okay (clear and white sand), open to public (free), and it is clean (because cottages have enough distance to the shoreline).

Unfortunately, we hadn't chance to swim when we went there; only visit and took some pictures. :(

I guess this is not the last and definitely we shall return. :)

Some pictures of our Lingayen trip:

Lucap Halo-halo

Lucap Halo-halo

Halo-halo (from Tagalog word halò, "mix") is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served in a tall glass or bowl. Wikipedia

Halo-halo is a favorite summer dessert by Filipinos because of its refreshing taste that quenches the thirst and heat of the summer. I remember when I was a still kid; I really have to wait for summer just to buy halo-halo from our neighbor. However, now it’s already available in some restaurants and food chains.

Lucap is one of the Barangay's in Alaminos. In Lucap, whatever the season is, with or without occasion halo-halo is always available and ready to be served.

Whenever our family visits our province (Alaminos, Pangasinan), Lucap halo-halo is never missed. I think it's already part of our tradition.

Lucap halo-halo is a typical halo-halo that distinct its taste on the season it will be served. Aside from the common ingredients, some put papaya or sweet corn or other fruits available that can make the halo-halo more flavorful.
You may also choose your desired ingredients but limited only on what are available.



Take note that not all ingredients is available per vendor, but you have many vendors to choose from.

It comes with Regular and Special.

P15-P35 per serving is an already enough partner while gazing at the view of 100 Island's. :)