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1 year ago
while i am reading and researching about camiguin i fell that i want to go back there and spend time with my love ones in a peaceful and friendly island.
i am Lily Levine, presently residing in canada, i moved here since 2001, i like it here, every year me and my family always visit philippines, by the way i am from Talakag, Bukidnon,,, this is my homeland, while we are planning to have a holiday 1 big issue is to go to camiguin for a couple of days, a bring almost the whole talakag to there just to relax and enjoy with their hot spring, sto, nino cold spring and just recently we discover the soda cold spring, my husband which is a canadian love to stay there,,, we stay at SABAKAHAN, @ yumbing, we like it there because they have kitchen where we can cook and it is very close to the seashore. they are nice and very understanding, everytime we will go there their rest house is full,, especially children, i loved to bring my nieces and nephews.. i miss CAMIGUIN so much and i want to go back there this year with my family,,, for all the people
in camiguin, you guys are so lucky to have a very nice place,,, that's a GOD'S given that no man can even measure it.
see you this year again, and best regards to the owner of the SABAKAHAN, beach resort in Yumbing, please send my best regards to them.
Lily Levine
Prince George, British Columbia
canada
PS.
just one simple comments,
to Ardent Hot Spring management
i hope that they will reduce their charges to the guest,, Hot Spring is natural, and God gave that to us to enjoy but i guess you are over charging, like us, a bunch of people is coming and we paid a lot of money everytime we go there.. you should give discount and there should be an age limit..
I hope this will come to your attention.
thank you for your attention to this.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
1 year ago
Thank you a lot and God bless
1 year ago
1 year ago
Thank you so much for this article.
Mercy
1 year ago
CHEERS
Kathy
1 year ago
When I was young I use to have my vacation there every summer with my parents and other relatives.We usually stay at our ancestral house in Mambajao,my Tita Dayday Juni- Reyes and the brother of my mom Tito Pingoy Reyes they are the only one's who are staying there.
I did have wonderful memories of that place...even if I would visit Camiguin every summer Im still in awe of its virgin beauty.
My last visit was when m mom was buried there for that is her request 7years ago with my own family.
Hopefully ,in the future we can all visit and remenisce once again the many beautiful memories that that place has deposited in me.
Maybe we are somehow related? not familiar kasi with real names only the nicknames lang...
till next time
DADA
1 year ago
9 months ago
Your cousin,
Dadan
1 year ago
first of all, please accept my hearfelt condolence for the loss of Nong Pinggoy. we lost a great man. we had a great time discussing camiguin issues after tennis games - of course, over some round of beer. that was in 1992-1998 when i started the camiguin telephone project. i'll be coming home this summer for our family reunion. surely i will miss your dad.
it's nice to see you and dada meet over the web. me, too, have memories with Nang Nenen, at felix huertas st., during my college days. i'm a frequent visitor, not only during September fiesta novenas, but to visit my cousins - jojo & ex bollozos. of course, charito barlaan stayed there, too.
Kath, this might come as a surprise for you. the last time i see you was at the classroom of Mam Titang Mora. if you still have a class picture of Grade 1 or 2, taken at the facade of Fatime College of Camiguin auditorium, i can tell you where i am. yes, we're classmates!
you have a great blog, Kath. keep it up.
best regards,
nandy
http://gcd.i.ph
1 year ago
I just had a time off from work and had spent my weekend there. I miss the old Camiguin where you can count by hand the number of vehicles and the silence. What I miss most is the warm welcome by locals, like me!
A new site was just opened, it's in Sagay, Camiguin. (Where I grew up.) It's the Binangawan Falls. I haven't been there but they say that the falls creates a rainbow hence the name "bangaw" = rainbow. And there are also wild strawberries growing near the falls.
Another site is the Ilihan hill, a dormant volcano visible in Guinsiliban and Sagay. I've been there and it has the best sunrise Camiguin could offer. Heavenly! And it has pine trees, fog and clouds below, a little unscathed Baguio.
Camiguin is a real treasure.
7 months ago
Nice to know we have another cousin, we never met.
I am a daughter of a first cousin of your mom, tita Nenen. My fathers name is the late Carding Reyes.
I only know the son of Tita Nenen only. I am close to Tito Pinggoy and Tita Dayday.
Do you have contact with Dadan and Erlinda, from LA, also Filipino friends members? He, Dadan is your first cousin.
Regards
marites Reyes Rami
1 year ago
p.s.
my bestfriend's last name is Reyes as well although they're not from Camiguin.
9 months ago
7 months ago
Schedule: (subject to change)
Departure Camiguin: daily at 8:00 am, arriving Jagna Bohol at 12:00
Departure Jagna Bohol: daily 1pm, arriving Camiguin at 5:00pm
6 months ago
6 months ago
The Island of Paradise
A paradise where a few would know
A place to pamper and relax self
To appreciate ecstasy on earth
A sight to immerse wildest dreams
A town with simple memories of days
Where life is easy and worry-free
Enjoy scenic views in its splendor
Where sunburst makes you alive.
Saluting dawn to a rooster's crow
To awake town to sunset's breathtaking sight
With moon glow in the ocean blue
Replica of glitter specks of diamonds
Where mist of hugging clouds
Cuddling the peak of highest tip
To the austere and majesti volcano site.
Where time is leisure and getting old
Unhurried and unnoticed
With gentle wind embracing
Cocoanut trees that grow wildly
Swaying and beckoning
Like an open arms of a maiden
Anticipating for her lover to appear
Ebb tides whisper a familiar tune
To revive a lonely heart
To rekindle or start, to discovery or recovery
A new or one love affair
Where white sand in blue lagoon
Come together
Inviting to a warm, clear water
Hidden hot spring like emerald gem
Alluring one to submerge gently
To calm an aching body that feels like million fingers
Massaging tenderly
Where waterfalls make rainbow
Like cascading bride's veil
Thanks to the beauty of Creation.
Jeanette W. Dunn
Copyrighted book of poetry "The Emotion of Love and Life Poetry Book sold in the Internet, Barnes and Noble and all bookstores.