Bantayan Island

A special experience in Bantayan is already two years back when I was just arrived on the island. Me and my wife were then newly arrived in Santa Fe when a friend invited us in an Asian lobster dinner at the beach. The location was nice because we could watch the sunrise watching from the boat and then we were able to enjoy at a small table for 4 people on the beach in the evening.
When the cook showed the Asian lobster, I was very excited because such a beautiful animal I had never seen before. Neither the Philippines nor appear Photos on the Internet. And it was incredible that he was still alive. Due to the amateur chef has informed us that this was always so that the meat is properly cooked when they are alive. The kind of preparing causes me stomach acid but when I saw the lobster on the table I had forgotten everything.

We enjoyed the tender meat with a nice bottle of red wine and had one of the most beautiful days in Santa Fe for the first time since I’m in the Philippines. Whoever has the possibility of a beach dinner should do so in any case. And if there is such a beautiful Asian lobster you have to try, it does not matter what they cost because it’s worth!

As a former globe-trotter who has always been looking for a quiet little paradise, I always start immediately to rave when I think about my favourite island of Bantayan. Since I came here years before by the ship looked at the clear blue water here, I know I will settle down here.

Length of coconut palm-fringed beaches only to walk there, a simple one as it is elsewhere in the beautiful places of the world often can not because the beaches were built. Fortunately, the Philippines here now to take their laws very seriously and cultivate threatened with fines in which the delicate beaches. Also on Bantayan where a few small hotels and private houses trying to build closer to the beaches were just recently filed lawsuits. On the one hand, we know the owner and we like them, on the other side I want to prevent by anything in the world, that these beautiful beaches are just built too.

At the moment the island is in a twilight sleep and is shunned by the large tourism industry. This bestowed normal prices, and quiet nights because of this here are no nightclubs and so the fishermen here still go from house to house for their fish products to offer. Each of the views of a small travel to Bantayan Island thinks everything should expect but not a tourist hot spot where he gets everything. Bantayan Island is a small island, although a few sites but mostly there are not more than 50 tourists on the island.