My 2018 : A Tour Around My Town - Welcome to BACO

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BACO is my hometown, it is located in the southern tagalog part of the Philippines , In the province of Oriental Mindoro. My town is subdivided into 27 barangays and i used to live in Barangay Alag , Baco Oriental Mindoro Philippines

I'll give you some directions how to go to our town from Metro Manila

First , you'll have to take a 2-hour bus ride from Manila to Batangas

this photo was my photo last time we go home to Baco, in a bus

After the 2 hours bus trip you'll arrive on the Batangas City port

photo of Batangas Port, here you'll have to go to the terminal where you'll have to get the ticket for your ship ride

photo of the terminal or like the waiting area whereyou also fall in line to get ticket and seat number for the ship

you can choose if you want to ride in fast craft( smaller ships where only people are on the ship- 1 to 1 and a half hour-ride or in a big ship where there are vehicles on the ground floor - 2 to 2 and a half-hour

my partner on the photo, leaving Batangas Port , we choose to ride in fast craft because we're in a hurry that time , but if you want to enjoy the view, ocean,mountain, flying animals and sea creatures i suggest to take the big ship

After the ship ride , you'll arrive in Calapin City , the capital of Oriental Mindoro, my province , on photo is the provincial office of Mindoro

FromCalapan City you'll have to have a 30 to 40-minute land travel , either by a public transpo or your own car , on photo is my brother-in-law's car when they pick us up from Calapan City , what you can also see in the photo is The "Lungos Bridge" , one of the longeat bridge in Oriental Mindoro

After passing through the bridge , you already arrived at my hometown, BACO, WELCOME!!!, Let me tour you around the town proper of Baco

in the photo is the main building of the Municipality of my town Baco, where the curtent mayor Reynaldo Marco has his office , also the different departments are there

In photo is the Police Station of Baco located just near the main building of the municipality as well

that building is the Baco Fire station, located just in the circle within the main building

In photos are the Health Center where can people have rheir checkups consultation, they can also ask fro free medicine and vaccination for free, there's an in house doctor everyday, and the ambulance in case of emergency

in photo is the evacuation center where people can stay in case of emergencies, calamities

in photos is the officeof MSWD (Municipal Social Welfare Development) , this office is very busy everyday , especially during calamities they're the ones who take care of rhe relief goods and distribute ot to those in need

that's the public school inside the municipality circle, where students can study for free, when i was studying back then , this was not yet built

it's the town's gymnasium, where events can be held even sports like basketball, badminton, voleyball, also differents shows and activities

in photo is the "Cafe de Baco" building , it's like a restaurant , anything you want to eat is there, it can also host events,like birthday parties, and such

It's still Cafe de Baco, it's the birthday celebration of my brother-in-law's niece

in photo is the "BACO Catholic School" , it's a private school founded by Father Tunkel, after he founded the town's church which will be shown on the next photo, this is where i actually graduated in high school

In photo is the Blessed Trinity Parish founded by Fr. Victor Tunkel ,who is an SVD missionary who stayed in our town for 26 years , he served as the parish priest from 1956 to 1982 . He was originally from Hungary.He really have a good heart for the people of Baco that's why we consider him as a legend in our town

BCS and Blessed Trinity Parish is located beside each other

Now let me take you to the outside of the municipality building circle

There you got our little town pharmacy , TAURUS

in photo is a bakery, different types of bread you can buy

in photos are different merchandise storws or like little grocery stores

meat and fish stalls

vegetables stand

one of the rice store

in photos are different angles of the place we call "KANTO" , where people walk , standby and wait for jeepneys and tricycle where they can ride

Now let me take you to the two of refreshing and relaxing places in our town, a river and a beach resort

Tacligan Beach Resort

In photos are my family and me of course,where in Tacligan Beach Resort, it doesn't have white sand as other beaches do , but the good thing is it's just a 25 to 30-minute drive from our house, we spent some of our birthday celebrations there, or sometimes we just wanna relax there, we also have cottages for rent there, from 300 to 1500 philippine peso depending on the size of the cottage , no entrance fee

Lantuyang Rocky River

In photos are my family again, we're in Tagbungan River, it's a 30 to 45 minute ride from our house, entrance fee 50 to 100 philippine peso, it's a river where it's water is free-flowing sirextly from the mountain that's why it's cold and refreshing, sometimes what we do is we put our drinks on the waterto let it cool , haha.

The Lantuyang Hanging Bridge

in photos are my partner and me, and the hanging bridge, we jumped when we were in the middle part, it's made of wood and steel

Now let me take you to our home

from the town proper , you need to ride in a tricycle to reach our place , it's like 15 mins. away from the municipal office

There , pictures of our house with the nippa hut on the side and our puppies namely , stephen and curry, because my son loves basketball player steph curry hahaha

photos of our dirty kitchen , cooking using either coal or woods to make fire

Stock of woods, used to make fire for cooking

our very old water pump, our water source sometimes for gardening washing cars, or cooking , bathing

my son in photo trying to pump it hard

my son and and his cousin Syre putting some water on the large basin from the water pump so they can bath under the sun , haha

Now i'lls how you some of the activities done in the town , community and activities done by my family

Foundation of the Town Celebration

In photos is the night celebration of the LGU(Local Gov't Units)

in photos, ballroom dancing competition

Month of Rosary

in photos are different church representatives from each of the barangays in Baco, lifting rosary made of balloons done every month of October

Sunday mass

photo inside the Blessed Trinity Parish

My son reading the holy scripture

For all souls day

my brothers painting our grandma and grandpa's tomb , they do that before the month of November

it has been our tradition to bring food to cemetery and stay at the top of tomb all day

Boodle Fight

photos are our boodle fights from mama and papa's birthday, we use banana leaves as our plate and the food is for eveeybody hahaha

Fogging

in photos is our uncle felix, after cleaning the surroundings and collecting dried leaves, we do fogging usually before 6 pm they say to eliminate mosquitos as well, and it smells good for me

Sing Along

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in photos, my family, we love music and music seems to love us too, so we usually do sing alongs, "videoke time" in Philippines

Now here's the final part, mouth-watering part actually, haha get ready, Here are some of the FOODS we have in our town

sweetened banana in caramelized sugar

we call this GINATAANG BILO BILO, made with glutinous rice, rolled to balls, with pearls, bits of jackfruit, coconut milk

this one's "leche flan" its like custard cake but more creamy, made of condensed milk, eggs, caramelized sugar

we call this "champurado" , made with glutinous rice plus cocoa powder or chocolate if you want, sometimes we put in milk on top, partnered with dried fish

it is "suman Lihiya" , made with glutinous rice, lihiya mixture and milk, covere with banana leaf, boiled until cooked

this is called "puto",made with ground glutinous rice , with coconut milk, steamed until cooked, sometimes others put cheese on top of it

it's a "pork menudo" , pork with tomato sauce, potatoes, red bellpepper, pepper,

this one's "kaldereta" and afritada

sauteed water spinach with some meat on it

lechon belly

i call it "sauteed squid ", though it has a bit of its soup, haha

*this is it "pansit"

sauteed bittergourd

this one's "sopas" our own version of soup 😁

"lansones"

rambutan

"indian mangoes"

pomelo from our very own tree beside the nipa hut

banana

one sack of rice ; banana; and pineapples

That's all i can share for now, we still actually have more of those , hope you enjoyed your trip to my little town , BACO

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