BAYANIHAN REPUBLIC:
"When God created the world, He gave his best in Batanes." -- Mandy Navasero.
With that quote alone I bet you can already visualize how beautiful Batanes and how truly blessed our Bayanihan Republic is! Considered as the smallest province in the Philippines, in terms of land area and population, Batanes is a group of islands located at northern Philippines and south of Taiwan. It has 10 islands but only 3 are inhabited, Batan, Sabtang and Itbayat.
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So what really hooked me in going to Batanes? It was a magazine article I read years ago when Filipino photographers voted / declared Batanes as the most photogenic place in the Philippines! I saw the pics and I was just amazed and got intrigued with the beauty of the islands. Wrongly, I told myself, and my friends that it just looks like New Zealand! Why did I say wrongly? Well, because Batanes has a beauty of its own, comparing it with another place is a mortal sin.
