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Win two (2) SEAIR round-trip ticket to Batanes!

Lakbay Pilipinas – The Philippine Travel Blog and SEAIR Adventure Club is giving away two round-trip SEAIR tickets from Manila to Basco, Batanes. All you have to do is leave a comment in SEAIR flies to Batanes telling us why you love Batanes till Sunday, 20 April 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

Make sure you place your full name in the name field since you will need a valid ID to claim the tickets if you win. The winner will be drawn at random and will be notified by e-mail so make sure you double check your e-mail address before submitting your comment. Finally, one entry per IP address so only the first entry from each IP address will be counted. Tickets will be valid from now until 15 October 2008. Good luck!

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Batanes is Taiwanese?

By Antonio C. Abaya
Written Jan. 28, 2007
For the Standard Today, January 30 issue

batanes islandA retired, former high-ranking Philippine naval officer has emailed to me the following article written by a Chinese history professor which, in a nutshell, claims that the Batanes Islands are not rightfully a part of the Republic of the Philippines because they were not part of the Philippine Islands that were ceded by Spain to the United States of America through the Treaty of Paris of 1898. Read and judge for yourself. (more…)

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Vacul – Ivatan’s native headgear


Batanes – Ivatan with vacul

Originally uploaded by estan.

An Ivatan native dressed in the traditional vacul, a woman’s headgear to shelter from the elements. This minority of Batanes, the northernmost province and islands of the Philippines have a unique culture of their own including a dialect that can’t be found elsewhere in the country. However, they do have a sister community in a tiny island the south of Taiwan where they have cultural affinity.

If there was one thing that I promised myself to bring back from Batanes, it is vacul, the unique headgear of the Ivatans. Made of shredded leaves of a unique palm in Sabtang island, it is truly waterproof. We got stares at the airport in Manila and Cebu when we hand-carried this one.

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Faluwa boats of Batanes

Batanes boats

Batanes colorful boats are called Faluwa. If you need to travel to Sabtang or Itbayat you need to take a motorized boat called faluwa. Ivana to Sabtang takes around 30 minutes while Basco to Itbayat takes 3 to 4 hours depending on sea condition

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Batanes oldest women in Batanes oldest house

batanes oldest women

Batanes Oldest Women in Ivana town

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Batanes : the northern adventure

 SongSong Ruins

The ruins of Songsong, a ghost barrio between Uyugan and Itbud, is one testimony of nature’s wrath and its effect on humans. The seaside town of Songsong used to be inhabited until a tidal wave swept through it in the 1950′s. The survivors have since then migrated to Mindoro, Palawan and Mindanao.
Song song ruins

 

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