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February 2006	Mario Babieri

Batanes

Batanes Islands

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Guest		13-Aug-2009 19:50
batanes is really a nice place.im danna from southern leyte and i relly love to visit batanes and explore its beauty.someday in gods right time ill b able to walk on the streets of batanes...

vicente m. babiera		10-Aug-2009 23:47
good to know meron pala ako relatives outside quezon province. i am boy manalo babiera of lucena city, quezon province. photography din ang hilig ko. nice if i could hear from you soonest. more power.

ally		03-Feb-2009 20:15
Amfofogiiiii! hehe. mga pare.

leah		22-Mar-2007 09:50
to Ms. Sotto: i am from Basco, Batanes and have a cousin there who dives and just loves the sea. i think he could help you. email me at samurong@yahoo.com and we can exchange info. -------------- my personal take on the exchange above: i was born and raised in Batanes and have seen enough elsewhere to fear for my province if it opens itself too much to "new" things (you know what i mean). i believe that the inaccessibility of a place is its own protection. i also believe that intimacy with one's native culture and heritage will enable him or her to help protect the place/culture. sadly, Batanes is opening up at a pace that in my opinion is alarming, and that many among the new generation of Ivatans, by choice or circumstance, tend to choose a lifestyle not supported by our landscape and indigenous resources. i don't think asking the Ivatans to choose the Ivatan way is asking them to remain poor. in fact, an adapted "foreign" lifestyle cannot be sustained by Batanes' as itself. Batanes has to change in order to sustain that lifestyle. I myself do not want Batanes to change. I accept Batanes as she is and would not want to change anything -- she is beautiful enough.

abkas		14-Dec-2006 08:14
Wakay, I was thinking that maybe Batanes is not the perfect place for you. I would recommend London or New York.

wakay		27-Jul-2006 11:19
Yes, guest of 7/25, that's true. I am from Batanes myself and I love my province - much more than my wife but I hope before we ask the people in my province to keep on living in the 19th century for your happiness and other people's happiness who are not living there themselves, care to share with us Ivatans a bit of how they are they gonna feed their families three square meals a day and be as financially independent like you while shying away from infrastructure, business and technology? I would like to know that because I would like to permanently live in my province but at the same time continue to be able to send my kids to the best school in Manila, have a vacation once in a while outside my country, keep my two cars in my garage and go out on Saturdays to have fund with my wife and kids in the best movie theater in Makati. Sorry but I hate other people telling us Ivatans to maintain our impoverished state so we can keep our place suitable for your annual nature vacations. By the way, you're also right, I hope 'the other guys' just drop dead in the tracks...

Guest		25-Jul-2006 05:03
I totally agree with the guess of 4/25/06. Progress is good if it doesn't destroy the heritage, moral and family value, the environment, the independency of the people and the beauty of the Island. I hope the people of Batanes will not become too dependent of the modern technology. I hope they still farm like the olden days, so when disaster or typhoon or other calamity struck the Island, they will have means to survive and able to take care of one another like the old days.

Guest		27-Apr-2006 15:46
The Ivatans will preserve their island and heritage. They are not the problem. It's the other guys. Politicians,builders and corrupt business people and.... the number one destroyer is ???????? Modern technology. Yep Modern Tekki will destroy this beautiful island and there is not much the Batanes people can do about it. Tourism should be minimize to the utmost.

Filipina B. Sotto		25-Apr-2006 10:04
I was searching for info on how to go to Batanes. My purpose is to undertake research. I am a marine biologist based at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City 6000, Philippines. Beautiful nature scenery. I could only hope that the people of Batanes can keep their nature as intact forever!