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PHOTO ESSAY
'Paradise Island’
Text and photos by Bobby Tuazon
Camiguin appears as a pear-shaped volcanic island and can be seen from Cagayan de
Oro’s Balingoan Port off Bohol Sea in southern Philippines. But the
slow-moving old ferryboat takes a traveler there in a full hour.
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ferryboat docks at Benoni Wharf in Camiguin’s capital fishing
town of Mambajao. Camiguin, known variably as “Paradise Island” or “Island
of Desire,” is about 300 sq. kms and hosts four other towns and seven
volcanoes.
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A farmer dries his
palay harvest in the early morning sun by the small Mambajao airport
(right); at the backdrop is Mt. Hibok Hibok, the only active volcano on
the island.
A typical street in
the heart of Mambajao (below) looks desolate as a man bikes his way
home with a bag of pan de sal (a popular bread among Filipinos)
along a row of old and new houses. |
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Camiguin’s first day of the annual
Lanzones Festival finds a young man selling an array of colorful balloons
for children (above, left) while a proud father brings his two children on an
improvised pushcart to the market to sell some flowers for the festival
(above, right).
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The shadows of a
waterfront at Camiguin’s Bahay Bakasyunan show it’s still
7 a.m. but a pump boat prepares to anchor at a nearby fishing community to
bring the night’s catch. |
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Surrounded by hot
springs, waterfalls, diving spots and often visited by foreign tourists,
Camiguin is also where you can taste the sweetest lanzones tropical
fruit in the Philippines.
Bulatlat
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