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Lavishing Potipot Island, Zambales
August 25, 2008It’s where Silver Surfer’s third team building was held. Dream come true as I have been planning to explore this island with my RMH girl friends na di matuloy tuloy. Let me give you some information about this island and its beauty.
Potipot Island is located roughly 1 km from the mainland shore of Uacon, Candelaria, Zambales. Uacon is about 240+km from Manila by road.
Some of the attractions of Potipot Island are: its white sands that completely surround the whole island, the calm clear waters, its proximity to the mainland that allows visitors to reach the island in only 5 minutes by banca, the lush vegetation and trees that provide shade along the beach (and even on the water).
There are no resorts on the island. Visitors usually stay at the resorts on the mainland in Uacon where they hire bancas to take them to Potipot.
If you are planning to just head for the island directly and not stay on the resorts (as on a day trip), you can contact boatmen who hang around the beach near the resorts or at the fishing village several hundred meters north of Dawal and get a banca to the island. Rate for round trip is P500 per banca that could ferry up to 10 people.
(Waypoint.ph)
The good thing about this island is its natural state. No resorts for accommodation. You have to bring everything you need for your whole stay. However, I believe that there is a small sari sari store on the island. Unfortunately, I was not able to confirm if there really is.
By the way, there’s a rocky part in Potipot. It is in the Southhwestern part of the island.You have to wear slippers on this part as the sand is coarse.
And where’s the best place to go photo op, but on the area of the island where you can see dead trees and big rocks on the shoreline! Perfect for modeling!
Yearning to come back to explore this place again.
