Cheap, affordable and memorable experience in Calatagan Batangas

Rafters is an eco-friendly rafting paradise located in Gulod Calatagan,Batangas 3-4 hours away from the busy city of Manila. Rafters management offer the best rafting and floating cottage services that caters adventurous beach goers, a fun and exciting way to spend your vacation. Relaxing the signature rafts roams with beautiful beach spots and sand bars at Gulod, Calatagan. Then enjoy the beautiful beaches, breath taking sunsets and relaxing sea breeze as you become one with nature at Rafters Rafters are offering two kinds of floating cottage Tadahana and Tagpuan

TOUR AND RATES:

You will be required to pay P30/ head for environmental fee at the port (child, pwd and senior citizen is free of charge)
For parking fee- P50 daytime / P100 overnight
  Day tour : 6AM to 5PM
Ovenight : 9AM to 9AM

Tadhana:
Only 3,500 for day tour and 5,000 for overnight.
PAX 12-15 person capacity

Tagpuan:
Only 6,000 for day tour and 8,000 for overnight
PAX 12-15 person capacity

Floating cottage made of bamboos

Long table and kitchen utensils

Hammock swing

you can find a lot of star fish

 Sand bar - submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or coarse sediment that is built by waves offshore from a beach. You can walk, play and see some sea creatures.

catching fish

Selfie without hesitation

Sea urchin

Sunset - This is the time when the sun goes down in the horizon creating a beautiful view that strongest words aren't to describe its magic. Indeed, the phenomenon of the sun drowning in the endless sea makes a magnificent prospect with its colors going from red to orange then a mixture of warm, dreamy colors colors like purple and indigo.  

Sunset almost gone

Night Swimming - There were 2 boatmen that will serve as life guard for daytime and overnights swimming activity.

Dinner

Night swimming

 

Day Swimming they called it " Little Boracay" because the sand is very fine, white, clear, crystal and clean water.

 Boating

 Snorkeling

 Other Information

 FACILITIES:

-Toilet, sink and bath
-Kitchen with stove and gas, cooking wares and grill
-services rendered
-Beds, pillows and blankets are provided
-Extra pillows and mattresses
-Tables, chairs and hammocks
-Lifevest available on board
-Fire extinguisher provided onboard
-First aid kit
-includes 2 boatmen that will serve as your life guard for daytime and overnight (please tip is encourage depending on the service provided)

Reminders

✔️ The best time to travel is during the summer months when the waves are generally calm
✔️ It is ideal to spend for atleast overnight to fully explore the place
✔️ Secure your things esp. gadgets with a waterproof bag
✔️It's still best to be self-contained by bringing extra cash
✔️ You can still bring and pitch your tent in the sandbar when it is lowtide and in the raft where you are going to stay at night
✔️ It is highly recommended to bring your own food and drinks including charcoals for grilling
✔️ You can also ask for freshly catched seafoods to the boatmen Kuya Vic and Kuya Orlan
✔️There is no electricity on the raft, only solar powered bulbs are provided and USB socket for your mobile phones, so it’s better to fully charged your powerbanks, wireless speakers and other electronic devices that are with you
✔️ Both Globe & Smart networks has signal but could be limited only for calls and texts, internet signal is quite erratic

Leave nothing but footprints👣
Take nothing but pictures📸
Keep nothing but memories 💛 


Enjoy and live life to the fullest ..

About Me

You can call me Joanna! I'm doing this blog for my creativity while working with travel incentives. I have been some places in Asia’s like Macau, Hongkong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, and Indonesia. Then in Germany at Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Netherland, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Belgium. I want to explore more places and try some exotic foods in every place I’ve visited. I’m not a professional photographer, but I’m trying to capture and document in every activity moment in my life. This blog’s content my personal life activity and my passion being a solo traveler. I am also a member of CouchSurfing (https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/jo-anrefugio). The Couchsurfing is a hospitality and social networking services accessible via a website and mobile app. The members can use the service to arrange home stays, offer lodging and hospitality and join event such as “Couch Crashes “. 

  During my vacant time, especially when I go back in the Philippines, I used to cook our meals and trying to innovate from ordinary to extraordinary in my owned version. I graduated as a Bachelor of Food Technology I learnt how to cook, baked and decorate. Though I did not practice what I’ve learned from the school, but I’m trying to apply in a simple way and manner. 

 I am a first timer blogger, I will try my very best and research more on how to improve my blog and stunning to my readers and followers.

Healthy Paksiw na Bangus with no MSG Added

Healthy Paksiw na Bangus with no MSG added

Taste.... taste my healthy Paksiw na Bangus with no MSG added.

Paksiw- is a Filipino style of cooking , whose names " to cook and simmer in vinegar". Most of Filipino's eat Paksiw with hot rice and bare hand. Some also wants to preserve paksiw until two days because they believed that the more it preserve long the taste is more delicious.


To give you more details on how to cook my paksiw version :

Ingredients:

Bangus (1 pc.)
Green chili ( 2 pieces)
Syrup Honey ( 1 tbsp)
Slice ginger ( 1 small)
Garlic ( 1/2 glove)
Onion. (1 glove)
Salt to taste
Lemon (1 tsp)
Oil (3 tbsp)
Cane vinegar or any kind of vinegar (it depends on your taste)

Procedure

1. Slice fish into 6 slices
2. Heat the pan and add 1/2 cup of water and wait to boil
3. After water is boiling add fish bangus and cover the pan.
4. Wait for 5 mins (set the fire into low flame)
5. Take out the fish from pan and set aside
6.  Drain the water from the pan
7. After draining the water add oil and heat it.
8. While heating the oil add onion, garlic and ginger
9. Add fish, vinegar, honey, green chili and salt. 

Note :

Be careful when mixing the ingredients to avoid the deformation of the fish.

I hope you like the taste....

Traveling and foods: Bali Indonesia things to do and place where to go ...

Traveling and foods: Bali Indonesia things to do and place where to go ...:  Everything you want to know about Bali Indonesia Bali is the most popular island holiday destination in the Indonesian archipela...

Bali Indonesia things to do and place where to go for a solo traveler

 Everything you want to know about Bali Indonesia

Bali is the most popular island holiday destination in the Indonesian archipelago. The island's home to an ancient culture that's known for its warm hospitality. Exotic temples and places set againts stunning natural backdrops are some of its top attractions. Dining in Bali presents endless choices of local or far- flung cuisine. After sunset, famous nightspots come to life offering exciting clubbing packed dance floors, inland, towerng volcanoes and prestine jungles greet you with plenty to see and do.

Amazing Beach Resorts and Luxury Resorts in any of Bali's famous areas.

Most can't stay away from the beach for long, but enjoy the amazing beach resorts and luxury resorts. These inlucde Kuta, Seminyak and Jimbaran where most of the great hotels and villas are right on the beach. They're also home to most of Bali's exciting surf spots.

If you want private and silent place seascapes and sunrises.

The best  part in Bali is in eastern beach resorts, these include Sanur, Nusa Dua and the remote coast of Candidasa.

East and Region part in Bali Indonesia

You'll find some world-class diving spots with caml bays. This is usually farther and lesser travelled. Once you reach that place its home of pristine and coral gardens teeming with colorful marine bio-diversity. The islance centre is offering plenty of reasons that it can be better than the beach.

What to expect once you visit in East and Region part in Bali

You can explore  the scenic central highlands of Ubud with its flowing rice fields, valleys and forested rivers. 

 

 What is Ubud Bali

Yet Ubud's is not a place for cultural day-trippers it is also offers adventure seekers and shopaholic. Picturesque mountain jogging tracks are within a short walk from designer botique and chic cafe lined streets. Sightseeing opportunities in Ubud are virtually endless. The town itself is densely dotted with a multitude of anciant temples, palaces, and historical sites. There are many more off the the beaten track spots around this magical island worth discovering.

The best things to do in Bali Indonesia 

1. Tanah Lot Temple

 Is located in  Beraban, Kediri, Tabanan Regency, Bali 82121, Indonesia

Tanah Lot must be the island's most iconic temple. This temple is perched on top of a huge rock, and surrounded by the sea with waves constantly crashing on to its base. As among Bali's most important sea temples. Tanah Lot pays homeage to the guardian spirits of the sea. The temple serves as foreground to the most picturesque sunsets.

 

 2. Uluwatu Temple

Is located in Pecatu, Kuta Selatan, Badung, Kabupatèn Badung, Bali, Indonesia

Uluwatu is among the Bali's most important sea temples, perched on a cliff edge in the southwestern Bukit peninsula. Here you can catch dramatic sunsets such as at Tanah Lot, Uluwatu aslo features an open amphitheatre close by, where sunset kecak fire dances can be enjoyed. A monkey forest also boarders the temple grounds. 

3. Pantai Pandawa Beach

Pandawa Beach Bali is one of the renowned white sand beaches in southern Bali. Pandawa beach located in Kutuh Village, Badung Regency and previously popular among foreign tourists, with name Bali secret beach while the local community is more familiar with the name Kutuh beach.The location of the beach is behind a very high limestone cliff, and from the top of the cliff, you will be able to see the Indian Ocean beautiful view.

 

 

 

 4. Seminyak Bali 

Seminyak is Bali's most stylish and upscale beach resort area. It's home to among the island's most luxurious resorts. It also host a number of fine restaurants and boutiques. Fashion stores line Seminyak's street.  You can also find some of Bali's top dining spots where international chefs cook up world class cuisine. The scenes along Jalan Petitenget and Jalan Kayu Aya can be quite eclectic. 

5. Garuda Wisnu Kencana

Located at the centre of Southern Bali, this is the biggest statue in Bali. This statue is amazing and has to be seen to be believed. This is a work in progress and will be so for many years to come. The completed part of the statue is the upper part of Vishnu's body, the head of the garuda and Vishnu's hands. The cultural park has become one of the favorite places in Bali for art and cultural performances, exhibition, and conferences. 

Garuda Wisnu Kencana, or GWK for short, is the name of a cultural park on Bali’s hilly southern coast famous for the ongoing construction of a gigantic statue of Vishnu riding on the back of a ‘garuda’ (a supernatural eagle-like being). The completed part of the statue is of the upper part of Vishnu’s body, the head of the ‘garuda’ and Vishnu’s hands. The cultural park has become one of the favourite places in Bali for art and cultural performances, exhibitions, and conferences. GWK, once completed at 145 metres, will be one of the world’s tallest statues and erected on the top of the hill, with a magnificent panorama of Bali

Read more at: http://www.bali-indonesia.com/attractions/garuda-wisnu-kencana.htm?cid=ch:OTH:00

6. DMZ Bali 3D Art Museum

Dream Museum Zone (DMZ) Bali is a fun and interactive art gallery featuring a vast collection of three dimensional, life size murals for visitors pose and play with. The gallery features a rich array of masterfully painted artworks that each serves as interactive backdrops of illusory three dimensional photography. There are an impressive total of 120 unique artworks in 14 different categories spread over three levels, which provide a full day of discovery and creativity. THe museum is located on Jalan Nakula, right off the junction  of Jalan Dewi Sri and Kuta's Sunset Road, and just down street from the TS Suites in Seminyak.

7. Upside Down World (Fun Trick- Eye House in Bali)

Upside Down World Bali adds to the growing list of fun indoor activities on the island, where you can enter seven specially designed rooms whose decor and furniture are simply, and deliberately, the wrong way up. It is where you can enjoy a fun day with out with your partner, family or friends and strike many whacky poses only to end up as gravity defying stunts in photos. Selfie sticks really work here..The concept of creating a photo that makes the world look upside down. It is a nice concept on where the kids, family and friends will love it. But it's not a long activity about an hour of photo session.

If you’re looking for a tour guide, a friendly and English-speaking driver you can contact Mr. Agung. He is a nice and trusted driver in Bali he has been our driver for the first time I went to Bali for three consecutive years 2016, 2017, and 2018.  You can negotiate with him with a reasonable price and places to go.