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PG141 back in its home port in Pasacao, Camarines Sur after the Philippine Navy supported mercy mission of Team Albay in Negros Oriental. PG142 was also part of Team Mercy Mission in Cagayan de Oro last year.
PG141 back in its home port in Pasacao, Camarines Sur after the Philippine Navy supported mercy mission of Team Albay in Negros Oriental. PG142 was also part of Team Mercy Mission in Cagayan de Oro last year.
PG141 back in its home port in Pasacao, Camarines Sur after the Philippine Navy supported mercy mission of Team Albay in Negros Oriental. PG142 was also part of Team Mercy Mission in Cagayan de Oro last year.
GETTING INTO CARAMOAN FROM METRO MANILA
The trip starts in the evening at around 8:30pm to 9:00pm from Cubao Bus Terminal. The first step is to get to Naga City(or Pili Airport if you fly). The trip would take about 8 hours so it’s not advisable to travel with an empty stomach. From Naga City Central Bus Terminal the next direction is to go to Sabang Port by taking either an aircon van (Filcab) or jeepney. Travel would be a litte over 1hr and the fare is 100 pesos. Then from Sabang Port off to Caramoan Guijalo Port by taking a boat ride for almost 2hours at 120 pesos fare.
It’s your option to catch a bus from Cubao Bus Terminal that goes straight to Caramoan via NATO Port (instead of Sabang Port) in Naga. Penafrancia bus fare is 850 pesos and this excludes RORO vessel regular fee of 150 pesos (or higher if you take the aircon accommodation of the vessel) and there’s another 15 pesos for the town fee.
If you missed to take your breakfast, no worries, the vessel has a small canteen that serves cup noodles at an instant for 30 pesos! And if your mobile phone battery is almost dying you can sneak at the TV outlet near the canteen with no questions asked.
:lol::lol::lol: mods natawa lang ako....dapt gawa na lang po sila ng kahit maliit na pier ..kaysa naman ganyan parati ..kaso maraming mawalan ng trabaho
Fare is Php120.00, plus Php25.00 for the porter. Travel time is approximately two hours.
M.V harry the boat, which has capacity of around 30-70 passengers sails to and from guijalo port..
Boat schedule from sabang to guijalo port
1st trip 05:00 o'clock in the morning
2nd trips 07:00 o'clock in the morning
3rd trips 09:00 o'clock
4th trips 10-11:00 o'clock
last trips 01:00 o'clock in the afternoon
Guijalo to Sabang
1st trip 07:00 o'clock in the morning
2nd trips 08:00 o'clock in the morning
3rd trips 09:10:00
last trip 11:00 o'clock
Motorized boats are the primary transportation to/from Caramoan Island
We actually anticipated for boats docked near the beach where passengers are to be carried atop the shoulder of the porter. The scene was different, probably because it's high tide that boats can dock and take passengers in the main port itself which is on the other side and opposite of the beach.
Guijalo Port, Caramoan
The town center or "Centro" of Caramoan is 20 minutes from Guijalo Port. You can rent a habal-habal, tricycle or multicab depending on the number of persons in your group. In our case, Kuya Boknoy has already arranged a tricycle under RiverView Vacation Inn Caramoan where we were staying.
Reaching Guijalo Sometimes it comes so low tide does,passengers are "ferried" out of the boat to the "pier" by small un-motorized bancas (de-sagwan).
From Guijalo, a tortuous land travel takes you to Centro (Caramoan's town proper). Not bad for a 15-minute bumpy and dusty ride - which could be worse when it rains. Take another 15-20 minutes of the same adventure to reach the shores of Paniman or Gota where motorized bancas take you to any of the islands of your choice!
At Guijalo port at last! The trip from Sabang took about 2 hours. By this time, we were practically vibrating with excitement. We arrived with the water low enough for us to cross directly from our boat. Apparently, when it’s high tide, passengers will have to ride a canoe from the boat to get to the port.
They use to carry each passenger on their shoulder to the boat. Now they use a make shift floating bridge. It costs 10 pesos each with a maximum of ten people at a time.
Here's Sabang Port. Can't get any basic than that. We didn't have to wait long. The boats schedules are hourly from 5:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. From Naga, you take another bus or jeep that takes another 2 hours. On our way back we took the van that only took a little less than hour. We didn't know you can ride a van or where it was at the bus terminal. I'm sure you can asked any of the more helpful people at the bus terminal to point you at the right direction.
I have seen pictures of Sabang Port posted by a photo buddy, but I couldn't quite imagine how/why they looked so laid back...until I saw it for myself. There was no structure whatsoever that would identify the place as Sabang Port. When everybody got off the Filcab van we rode from Naga City, hubby and I knew that it must be the place. And when men came scampering to meet the van, and with loud voices offered to carry passengers' bags, we knew they were the porters.
We travelled light with only one traveling bag for our clothes (which hubby could have carried by himself in addition to his backpack), but we decided to get one porter. The porters walked so fast so we thought we had to be there at once to catch the boat. Our porter offered to carry my backpack, then breezed through small alleys, passed through sandy ground until we reached the beach. He put our traveling bags on a long bench made of bamboos. It turned out to be the waiting area for passengers, conveniently located under the coconut trees. From there, we had a good view of the coastline and Mt. Isarog.
It was a little past 9am, and we expected a boat to leave at 10am because we saw a boat arrive, but we were told that the next trip would be at 11am. Perhaps, it was that way during weekdays on lean months when there were few tourists. Most of the waiting passengers were students, teachers and other Caramoan locals who came from Naga. I was already feeling hungry (only had very light breakfast) and uncomfortable (personal necessity). I looked around but couldn't find a public restroom.
Thanks to my VT bag tag, a curious waiting passenger asked me what Virtual Tourist meant. I guess I warmed up on her, she asked me to join them to have a meal at a nearby carinderia. Hubby didn't want to join us because our bags would be left unattended on the bench, so only I went with them. More than alleviating my hunger pangs, my utmost concern that time was to find a comfort room. Fortunately, the carinderia was just behind, a few steps from the waiting area, and it had a CR for their customers (read about this matter in another tip).
At about 10:20 am, passengers were asked to write on the boat's manifesto. At about 10:30 am, passengers were already allowed to go to the boat. Our boat left Sabang Port before 11am, about 10:45 am. I looked back as we left the port, and appreciated the simple beauty of the small coastal barangay of Sabang.
When we returned to Sabang from Caramoan, I was surprised to see that we didn't dock at the same place where we left for Caramoan. We docked near the Caramoan market. I asked the skipper before I left the boat; he said they dock there when it is not yet low tide. Since we got the first trip (7am) from Caramoan, waters were still high, enabling boats to enter that side of the port.