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Hinatuan river: Enchanted ever after

  THE MYSTERY behind Hinatuan Enchanted River’s source is left to the brave or superstitious. The rest of us will be left distracted with its bluest color. Most of us will be lured to at least take a dip. Maybe part of the rivulet’s charm is attributed to it being a delta, whose push and pull of tides changes its colors down the line and makes for a unique bathing experience. On one end, the Pacific Ocean traces its saltwaters into the stream.… Read More »Hinatuan river: Enchanted ever after

Of friendships, the Survivor series and Caramoan Island

  THESE days, it’s hard to believe that Caramoan still hosts the “Survivor” series—a show that depicts contestants as castaways displaced on the far ends of the world—when in “reality,” the tourists were actually everywhere in the Camarines Sur peninsula when we got there over one long weekend. This irony of being “remote” vs. “accessible” cannot escape us as observers. That while we want a taste of being in an unchartered territory as what the reality TV presents, it is… Read More »Of friendships, the Survivor series and Caramoan Island