Camping at Katungkulan Beach

I'm already on my last year before graduating from University so here comes the biggest challenge of my school days, T-H-E-S-I-S. Since I'm on an art college, the categories for our thesis are fashion design, events, package design, production design, ad campaign, book illustration and photography. I chose photography and decided to come up with a coffee table book promoting the nice beaches near Manila.

I don't want to go into details about my thesis since it will be too long for this blog and I don't want to spill the beans yet haha. But here's where I went first, Katungkulan Beach Resort in Ternate, Cavite!

Before, I wasn't aware that there's a beach this beautiful 2 hours away drive from where I live. I visited this beach in a weekend but it wasn't crowded (maybe because it's not summer). The water is very clean and clear. This is one of the cleanest beaches I actually went to!

Hinulugang Taktak Falls

I've always heard/read about this falls when I was a kid. I remember reading about this on books saying that it was once very famous but then people started neglecting this gift from nature until it turned out very different from what it was before. Fortunately, the government started rehabilitating this tourist spot and for the first time, I was able to visit the falls. I don't know if it's because I wasn't able to see the falls' original state or it is just still undeniably beautiful.

Of Screams & Slides: Splash Island

Before we came up with Splash Island (just the night before our trip!!!!), our original plan was actually Canyon Cove in Nasugbu, Batangas but some of us ran out of budget or weren't allowed by their parents because you can actually consider it a little far from Manila. Fortunately, my friend suggested that we just go to Splash Island, since there were only 4 of us left and it was just an hour or two away. Though I can't explain how much fun we had because IT WAS A LOT!!!! And if you're not familiar with the place, it's not a real island, I don't know how they came up with that name but Splash Island is a waterpark with awesome slides!

Photos from Mina and Tara