Cagbalete Island

From Lipa city, we drove all the way to Mauban Quezon. It's just a 2 hour drive from my place. If you're coming from Manila, it may take 3-4 hours  depending on traffic situation. From Lipa, we passed by the town of Tiaong, Candelaria, Sariaya, Tayabas and then finally we reached Mauban Quezon. If you like to commute, tou can take a bus bound to Lucena Grand Terminal. From there, there is a bus bound to Mauban, Quezon. Fare is just P50.

We parked our car inside a school near the municipal hall and paid P100 for an overnight parking fee. We took a tricycle and ask the driver to drop us in "pantalan", we don't know the exact name of port so we just told the driver that we are going to Cagbalete Island. We paid P50 or P10 per passenger.



photo of "pantalan"

You'll find a tourist assistance office just as you entered the pantalan port where you can buy ticket for the boat ride to Cagbalete. But the driver told us to pay once we are in the boat. Boat fare is just P40 thus avoiding the additional P100 environmental fee.

We were able to have a small talk with the locals there while waiting for the boat to leave the port. The boat left the port at exactly 10:30 in the morning.

It's like a roller coaster ride caused by strong and huge waves. Luckily, I do not have this fear of water even though I do not know how to swim. We just enjoyed the ride.

We arrived at villa cleofas at around 12:30 in the afternoon. We rented some utensil from them and they also let us use their kitchen.

very relaxing

my sister flor - enjoying the view

i love this place

venus and neri - ang makukulit na dalaga

Except for a couple, we were the only guest in villa cleofas during that time. And because of that couple, we had an electricity from 6 pm till morning. We tried their videoke but the quality of the speakers are not that good. After singing 2-3 song, we stopped and went in the shore again for star gazing while having a bonfire.





At around 6 in the evening, the tides were already low exposing the sand ripples. Unfortunately, its getting dark so I was not able to see the sand ripples clearly. But that gave me a reason to come back here.

There is only one trip bound to Mauban from cagbalete and we were afraid to miss this so we left the island early.  The boat ride going back to Mauban is more exciting and made my heart beats a little faster. We covered ourselves by towels to avoid getting wet from splash of waves. Waves are more stronger and bigger, as if they are chasing us.

We arrived at pantalan port at around 9 in the morning.