zamboanga itinerary

i've been sitting in the office for a month now without any out of town trip and i must admit that i am bored. and since ceb pac and pal's websites are bookmarked in my browser, i decided to check their pages yesterday. surprise, surprise! ceb pac is offering 50% discount on their fares. checked zambo... 2,500 roundtrip. now all i have to do is finish the questionnaire so i would have good enough reason for a travel order to tawi-tawi and sulu.yihee! i just wish the security situation would be ok. but hey, zambo is the home base so i decided to check out some good beaches there.

while it is true that adrian lives in zambo, we havent had enough time to actually go to the beaches. just la vista del mar, which i didnt quite enjoy because its kinda populated.

so this is the most amazing discovery i had: A PINK SAND BEACH! how cool is that huh?

so according to this blog,

A pink sand beach is very rare and there are only a few of them around the globe. They can be found in Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda, 3 islands from the Bahamas, Culebra in Puerto Rico, Maui in Hawaii, Santorini in Greece, Barbuda in the Carribean, Crane Beach in Barbados, and here in The Great Santa Cruz Islands in the Philippines.

So how did this beach got its pink sand qualities? It’s mainly because of these endangered Red Organ-Pipe Corals. From eons of natural surf erosion, these red organ-pipe corals were pulverized and mixed with the white sands resulting to its colorization. These corals are considered rare due to it’s unique qualities of a soft coral having a hard skeleton.

so there. am off to that pink sand beach in august! who's coming with me? =)