Anonymous
10/28/2025, 11:24:50 AM
No.2835959
>>2835955
Naval.....it's actually low-key a place I could see someone wanting to stay. It's not ever talked about, it's out the way, but it's a town of decent size. They have Jollibee, they have mcdo, they have hotels, they have a department store.....and they apparently have a big university with a GANG of college girls walking around town. They come from the surrounding towns to study at the University and live in boarding houses....people ask "where's a hidden gem".....I'll spoil it for you, sorry Filipinos, it's Naval, Biliran
Anyways, I didn't stick around that long, and went to the port and brought a ticket to Maripipi island for 300 pesos.
Got on a rickety old rust backet "joselito express" for a BEAUTIFUL sunset cruise around Biliran, to the north. Arrived at nightfall to Maripipi, and was directed by a man on the boat to a local pension house "Brian Claire". He said I was the only tourist on the island....He also invited me for breakfast the next morning.
Checked into the pension house then went back to the town center, where I was called into the "provincial government satellite office" to get drunk with some local official's. Called it a night around 9pm.
Woke up around 6, and sure enough the man from the boat was there to pick me up. He took me to his beach front home and fed me Argentina corned beef and eggs. He was an educated Filipino, works for some NGO doing peacekeeping missions....honestly it was kinda weird having a conversation about geopolitics In such a remote island, but I'll take what I can get. He was a super nice guy, I just think he is used to talking to people of a certain level of intelligence, and not the very simple "villagers".
Maripipi is SUPER nice, but also SUPER boring. It's a perfect circle, with a road going along the perimeter of the island, and mountain in the middle. Theirs a beach on the north shore (pic related), and some islands of it's western coast which are picturesque but with really nothing on them.....
Naval.....it's actually low-key a place I could see someone wanting to stay. It's not ever talked about, it's out the way, but it's a town of decent size. They have Jollibee, they have mcdo, they have hotels, they have a department store.....and they apparently have a big university with a GANG of college girls walking around town. They come from the surrounding towns to study at the University and live in boarding houses....people ask "where's a hidden gem".....I'll spoil it for you, sorry Filipinos, it's Naval, Biliran
Anyways, I didn't stick around that long, and went to the port and brought a ticket to Maripipi island for 300 pesos.
Got on a rickety old rust backet "joselito express" for a BEAUTIFUL sunset cruise around Biliran, to the north. Arrived at nightfall to Maripipi, and was directed by a man on the boat to a local pension house "Brian Claire". He said I was the only tourist on the island....He also invited me for breakfast the next morning.
Checked into the pension house then went back to the town center, where I was called into the "provincial government satellite office" to get drunk with some local official's. Called it a night around 9pm.
Woke up around 6, and sure enough the man from the boat was there to pick me up. He took me to his beach front home and fed me Argentina corned beef and eggs. He was an educated Filipino, works for some NGO doing peacekeeping missions....honestly it was kinda weird having a conversation about geopolitics In such a remote island, but I'll take what I can get. He was a super nice guy, I just think he is used to talking to people of a certain level of intelligence, and not the very simple "villagers".
Maripipi is SUPER nice, but also SUPER boring. It's a perfect circle, with a road going along the perimeter of the island, and mountain in the middle. Theirs a beach on the north shore (pic related), and some islands of it's western coast which are picturesque but with really nothing on them.....