Whale Shark in Anawangin Cove Zambales

If you haven’t experience boat riding, well going to Anawangin Cove is the right choice. You can go to Anawangin Cove by land, but this is only for people who can resist long hours of open field trekking. Boat ride is still the best choice.

Allow me to tell you a story. We had great boat riding experience the second time we went there. You know what, on our second day, from Anawangin Cove going to Capones Island, our bangkero (boatman) suddenly stopped on the middle of our trip; all of us wondered and asked why he stopped. He said “May nalampasan tayong Butanding (we passed by on top of a whale shark)”. So we decided to turn back to see the whale. We were really amazed on what we saw. 

This is not the actual picture, but the skin is similar to this picture

The boatman stopped the engine; it’s true, a mid-size whale sharp is exactly there at the bottom of our boat. I think that was just 4-5 meters deep from our boat. It’s not moving and we can see its huge back. We were five in the boat, including the boatman. Some of them took pictures, but it’s not clear. By bad, I haven't manage to get a clear picture too, but during that time we can see its huge head and the tail, maybe two times longer than our boat. After some few minutes of looking down, the boatman decided to start the engine again, maybe it’s because one of the passenger insisted “Kuya, tara na! Baka gumalaw pa yan, itaob ‘tong bangka natin.” So he immediately starts the engine and we headed to our destination, in Capones Island.

Anawangin Cove, The Proud Treasure of Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales

Anawangin Cove in Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales is an excellent place to spend your summer beach vacation, not only because of its crescent shaped cove with a pristine white sand beach but also the unique unusual riddle of tall pine trees flourishing round its vicinity. 

There are no roads leading to Anawangin Cove. It is only accessible by a 30 minute boat ride from Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales or by a six-hour trek through hot, open trails thru the Pundaquit range.

Sam Milby, Bea Alonzo and Megan Young in Anawangin Cove San Antonio Zambales

Just recently in the website of The Philippine Star in a column entitled Young Star, an article appeared... "Megan Young: Youth In Revolt" The Dialogue  By Raymond Gutierrez The Philippine Star, Megan Young revealed that she's been going to Anawangin Cove in San Antonio Zambales.

This photo originally appeared in Philippine Star

Here's the exact interview:

Raymond Gutierrez: Summer is around the corner. Any plans?

Megan Young: The newest place we’ve been going to is Anawangin in Zambales. My friends and I love it because we get to camp out by the beach. We bring tents and everything! No room service whatsoever which is so refreshing.

To know the whole story click here.


Also last 2009, when we went to Anawangin Cove with these group from AIG, who also availed a 2 days anawangin tour package, they saw hunk actor Sam Milby with actress-singer Bea Alonzo. If I remember it correct, that was the time when they are shooting the movie "I Love You So" with Derek Ramsey, but Derek is not there during that time. 


Here are the pictures of our happy and lucky customers with Bea Alonzo and Sam Milby. 

 

3 Easy Ways To Get an Anawangin Package for Less than the Money You Expect

Have you tried Island hopping, mini-trekking, and boat riding? How about Anawangin tour in San Antonio, Zambales?

The first possible option that you will do prior taking a summer vacation or if you’re planning a weekend getaway is to search first on the internet, you will google the place you want to go. My wild guess is, you came to this site because you googled ‘anawangin tour package’ or some word similar, or you came here from your Facebook account or a Fan Page. Another thing that you will do is you first ask some of your friends or office mates who already been in the place (maybe, they are not your true friends, because they left you during that time, kidding!)

Another Anawangin Tour Package Experience

We had another great anawangin tour package experience last month, February 26-27 to be exact, an early summer getaway in Anawangin Cove, Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales. We also went to Capones Island to see the old Japanese Light House plus a swimming galore experience in Camarra Island.

By the way, if you don’t know anawangin cove yet or if you don't have any anawangin tour package experience yet, you may check this youtube video below. This is created by imAcursor:

Anawangin cove is a simply but an amazing beach cove. Imagine when you're there, you're facing the beach and when look at your back, fine trees! It's like you're in Bora or you're in Puerto but when you looked back you're already in Baguio. Perfect weekend getaway for officemates and barkadas.

Being there in Awawangin Cove is really a cool weekend getaway for us especially to our newly found friends from Laguna. You just need to prepare yourself just like them. Why? You will experience a 20 to 30 minutes of local boat ride (depending on water condition). Pwede ka magbaon ng gamot kung ikaw ay isang taong byahilo (kung madali kang mahilo dahil sa alon). But look at the picture below. Ganda diba? If you want to see this amazing view, you also need to stretch a little bit because it will take few minutes of trekking before you rich the view deck. But when you're there already, you will never miss to take pictures with this at your background. (Tyak! inggit si classmate or si officemates sa'yo)

Anawangin Landscape Photo by Xave Ignacio

Coming from an employee point of view, just like us, our newly found friends from Laguna are slightly tired from a routine job and just wanted to enjoy, relax and refresh their mind. Enjoy and Relax. We need these once or twice a year. Well, if you can afford, you can have it anytime you want. Don't go anywhere else. You can find many beautiful beaches here in the Philippines. We will recommend Anawangin Cove. Anawangin plus island hopping in Capones and Camarra is perfect place to go.

Anawangin Cove The Boracay meets Baguio Experience

Pristine and secluded, the beach of Anawangin Cove is fast becoming a popular tourist destination near the Subic, Zambales area. Surrounded by pine trees and carpeted by volcanic white sand from Mt. Pinatubo's eruption, Anawangin cove looks like a winter scene in the tropics. The sands are very fine and the beach is wide. During low tide, the beachfront becomes longer and the waters are calm, making it ideal for swimming. It's Boracay meets Baguio Experience.

Anawangin Landscape Photo by Xave Ignacio