Samar

Die Hard Trekking Fanatic

Three-star Hotel Doña Vicenta is located at the side of the Wilsam Uptown Mall in Songco, just a two-minute drive from the town proper. The hotel has an Asian modern interior, with all dark furniture against neutral walls and floors, and split-type air conditioning. Rooms range from standard, going for P880, to a junior suite or honeymoon suite, going for P1,680. The presidential suite for P2,970 a night has living and dining areas. All rooms have TV with cable, IDD, NDD, and a toilet and bath with a solar heating system. The hotel has a standby generator which runs everything – lights, AC, elevators, including the cable channels. Hotel rates come with free breakfast. Room service has entrees at P120, sodas in can at P25 and beer at P35.

To inquire or reserve, call: 055/ 261 3585, 261 3586 and 055/ 560 9394. Or e-mail: hoteldonavicenta@yahoo.com.

Samar, Borongan

ISLAND SIGHTS AND STORIES

Start by visiting Borongan’s lighthouse, built by the Americans in 1906. It looks out to the Pacific Ocean and the view is well worth the effort. To get to it, we started with a 10-minute boat ride from the main island’s Locsoon Beach in Bgy. Lalawigan, southeast of the city proper to Divinubo Island at the ungodly hour of 4am. If we had approached the island in the correct conditions – 12 noon or midnight with a full moon or a new moon – we could have done it by foot, instead of cutting across the waters. Ronald Lapada, islander and our tour guide for the day, said getting to the island by foot would take about an hour. Our boat ride (P12 per person, one way) was easy, but we had to walk up more than a hundred steps built on the side of a mountain, and take the rocky, muddy, potholed and spindly path with weeds to reach the slender with.

Photo and Article Source: Infligth Magazine (Seair)