To cap off our Summer 2011 Leyte escapade, we headed to Inopacan, Southern Leyte. Since we were billeted in Maasin City, we traveled 35.71 kms to Inopacan for P80 one way. If you are from Cebu, you can ride a boat to Hilongos (P350 for tourist class) and travel 15.26kms to Inopacan. Inopacan boasts of the Cuatros Islas, composed of Digyo, Mahaba, Apid & Himokilas (part of the municipality of HIndang) Islands.
Digyo Island was our destination, and despite the rainy weather, the water was cooperative (and still! thank God!), and we got to the island after a 30 minute boat ride (P3500 with life jackets!). And the long trip from Maasin City was worth it because the island was a paradise!
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| digyo island |
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| reaching island paradise |
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| wati enjoying the sand & taking in the view |
Since there are no rooms, except for some open cottages, in the island, so we brought a huge tent to accomodate all. And since there's no electricity, we brought along a petromax so we'd have light during the night, and we can charge batts. And since there's no store in the island, you need to bring a lot of liquids & your food and utensils. But there is a nearby island, Apid island, where you can buy stuff though.
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| pitching the tent |
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| the only accommodation in the island |
The island is so small that we went around the island in a few minutes. And based on some research in google, the island is named Digyo coming from the old Cebuano word "digyot" which means small. We got to the island quite late and it was cloudy, but still, it looked lovely. But when we woke up the next day, the sun was shining, the blue water looked so still, and the sand so nice, that you could not help but marvel at the beauty of this God given gift. :) I read that the sea shore is not as big as years back since there was some illegal quarrying of the island's sand to ship to a hotel in Cebu. booooo for those who did that! :(
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| digyo island |
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| Digyo's Sandbar |
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| beach bums, beach lovers |
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| the crystal clear water with Apid island at the back where you can buy stuff :) |
Before we headed back to the mainland, we stopped over another beautiful island, Mahaba Island. Unfortunately our cam's battery got depleted, and our friend's cam batt got depleted too, that we were not able to take pix of the magnificent view of the island. Here are some iphone pix of the place.
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| Mahaba Island's tempting water..you can't help but jump out of the boat |
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| the sand bar |
The island hopping escapade was indeed a great ending to our week long Leyte Experience. The summer is almost over and too bad, our Bohol trip was stopped by typhoon Chedeng...:( But summer 2011 was awesome for us...and we're looking forward to more places to visit for the rest of the year!
may CR ba sila sa island? tsaka safe ba dun magovernight?
ReplyDeleteUu safe naman but walang electricity. What we did was we brought our own lamp. Amd there's a small house there where they would allow you to use the cr for a fee. I think p5 for peeing.
DeleteUu safe naman but walang electricity. What we did was we brought our own lamp. Amd there's a small house there where they would allow you to use the cr for a fee. I think p5 for peeing.
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ReplyDeletei am looking for details on digyo island and i stumbled on your entry..
can you provide details how to get there and how much it cost you guys to get there? any contact of any boatman? thanks so much~ :)
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Hi! If you are from Cebu, you can ride a boat to Hilongos (P350 for tourist class) and travel to Inopacan. I'm not sure how much is the fare from Hilongos ro Inopacan coz we came from Maasin Leyte and we spent around P80 one way from Maasin to Inopacan, Hilongos is nearer though so I guess it would cost P50 plus.
DeleteMy friends contacted a certain boatman but when we got there, we were quite late, the boat ferried a different group na. so we just looked for another boatman there. it cost us P3500.
if you run out of stocks/food, you can ask the resident in the island to take you to the nearby island where there's a store.