Days ago, I have posted my travel adventures at Batanes in my entitled blog "I Left Half of My Heart at Batanes" but I got some missing photos there to show some of Batanes' finest symbols such as this one on my featured image — the iconic stone houses.

This photo here is just one of Batanes' durable stone houses that protects the native Ivatans from strong winds especially during typhoons, as this province is susceptible to natural disasters that is very common to my home country Philippines. Just for your information, this stone house where I've took my photo is said to be the oldest among them all.

This one is also a stone house except it is coated and smoothened with cement that seems to look like a modern house as of today.

This one is a wharf found at Mahatao, a town next to Basco. Basco is a capital town of Batan Island, one of the 3 inhabited and largest islands that comprise the Batanes Group of Islands. Itbayat and Sabtang are the other two.

This is one of my photos on one of Batanes' signature structures — lighthouse. This one guides seafarers at the sea by its glowing light especially when nights are too dark that even stars are hardly seen scintillating in the sky.

On my previous post, I missed to tell the name of this bonsai-like trees that seems to look like also a bush. On right side of this photo is arius, a relative of pine and cypress tree. It is said to have a lifespan of 100-300 years that natives also called it as century plant. It is also native to Taiwan, so maybe one reason that this plant grows here at Batanes is that because Taiwan is just 9-10 hours away when traveled by boat from Batanes' other major inhabited island — Itbayat to Taiwan. Natives called this also as Batanes Pine.

The looming island overlooking on the horizon on this photo is the Sabtang island. I haven't take my chance to travel there since I only stayed at Batanes' capital which is Basco. But many folks said that there's also lots of tourist attractions there, but it'll take hours to travel by a boat. But maybe next time I'll try on my next visit.

This one is the famous Marlborough Hills that looks like a Western countryside. Its viridescence is quite a good spot for sheeps to eat grasses, or maybe a good ranch for horses and cattles. Nevertheless, this spot is very cool to the eyes and speaks of the Batanes' pristine nature.

This is a rendezvous station at Mahatao View Deck that overlooks the South China Sea. It is somewhat like a park good for picnic or even yoga and meditation.

That's all for this blog adventures at Batanes. Hope you have enjoyed my treasured original photos which were uploaded from my Facebook account. These photos were from 5 years ago. So my face here seems bit young and not too old. Just judge me when you see me for real (just kidding!)

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Have a nice day to all!

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