TAKE 2 AT KWEBANG LAMPAS

It’s our second time to visit ‘Kwebang Lampas’ at Pagbilao, Quezon but this time we’ll be joining Ate Ne’s family (her sisters and their families plus Inang) …my only regret is that Kit would not be able to come with us because they have quite a big brood and so it was quite difficult to fit him in anymore …anyway, he says it was OK naman daw for him since he had already been to that place before…but still I could not help but worry…

With a heavy heart, we left him alone at home last Saturday morning at around 3 am to pick up Ate Ne’s sister and mother at Sapang Palay and Garay, respectively. Then, we proceeded to Lagro to unload some of the passengers to Ate Ne’s Revo and April’s car. We finally left at around 4:30 and after 3 ½ hours of traveling reached Ate Ne’s house in Pagbilao. Her new house there was huge and very airy…with very large windows that lets in so much air…it was already quite finished except for the paint and we ate breakfast there first upon arrival before leaving for Kwebang Lampas at around 10 am. Kwebang Lampas was still as beautiful as I remembered it – its water still pristine, its pure white sand beaches still untouched by commercialism. The wooden huts still remained the same, just blending in the background, never sticking out like a concrete sore thumb like in most popular resorts like Puerto Galera or Boracay…and I hope it stays that way…







The only thing was that there were more people now, so I guess the place is not our secret anymore…it’s become popular not just among the locals here but even to some outsiders since it truly is like Boracay but without the crowds and noise. I guess it would be quite difficult to keep a secret like this for very long huh?











We returned to Ate Ne’s house for dinner and to retire for the night…the main house had (I think) four bedrooms and a huge sala upstairs which can be slept in too… but we slept in our own room in the next house (where Analyn stays in) which had three more rooms – so I guess her place is truly fit for an office outing eh? Maybe next year? (saying, I forgot to take pics of her house)

We had a good night’s sleep and were, in fact, the last ones to awaken. We then had our breakfast, took our baths, packed our things to leave and waited for the others to get ready. It turns out we’d still have our lunch here pa pala and so we ate first before leaving for Tayabas, Quezon or maybe it was already Lucena …to visit the Kamay ni Hesus shrine. We went up some 300 or so steps to reach the statue of Christ with arms upward to the sky while the old ones stayed down and heard mass lang. We said a prayer and lit candles lang for our own personal intentions. After that, its time for more picture-taking, souvenir shopping before finally leaving for home at around 6 pm…just stopped over at McDonald’s at Tiaong, Quezon for a bit of dinner and finally got home at 12…