It’s not so bad, really.<\/em><\/div>\nI wasn’t as excited about going to Apuao. After Calaguas, I was already quite contented to just sleep in and take my time going to the airport in Naga. Maybe Mahabang Buhangin raised my standards too much — Apuao was quite underwhelming. It showed promise: clear blue sea, beautiful beach (not as fine as Calaguas’ or Maculabo’s), lush greenery. In fact, there’s a resort there: Apuao Grande Resort — or what remains of it. Story goes that the island is always hit by strong typhoons that most of the money made by the resort just go to maintenance, so it was just left to ruins. The resort had a swimming pool, several villas and even a golf course. The villas are still there, and can be rented for Php 3,000 per night (2 bedrooms, 2 toilet and bath, kitchen, dining, living area, veranda, electricity for limited time). The place reminded me of Manukan island in Kota Kinabalu. It’s close enough to the mainland, yet has that remote island charm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The highlight of the trip was Mahabang Buhangin in Calaguas Island, but we checked out two more beaches since we were in the area. On the way back to Paracale, we stopped at Maculabo island. Approaching Maculabo island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1433,1432],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}