Basco Airport (Batanes)

11 Oct 2010 1 Comment

by angkuletin Batanes

Our SEAIR flight to Basco was scheduled at 5:45 AM. My mom and her friends straight from Naga via bus were already there at 2:30 AM. We left the house in Cainta at 3:30 and made it to the domestic airport at 4:30. (We paid the taxi driver who was nice enough to drive through the shortest route in the fastest possible time P300.)

Going to Basco Airport (Batanes)

After a relatively long time checking in (a party of 11 plus infant), we were inside the waiting area – where a Travel Factor friend, Maya, was already waiting.

I tried to keep my mind off the possibility that our flight to Basco was going to be cancelled, like it did back in October 2008, and tried to keep my spirits up. I silently prayed for good weather. Another Travel Factor friend, Jerome, had just been to Batanes the week before though. He came back all sunburned. “Summer in Batanes!” was what he said. More