LIFE IN BASILAN - I'M BACK ONE YEAR LATER.

I first came here last June, and loved it so much that I came back a month later.

This time around, I spent one and a half days trying to really understand how life is in 2023, with lots of different explorations around Isabela City, the island's largest.

From Marang-Marang, whose women's association is rapidly developing with a new floating cottage and a thriving weaving industry, to the former JW Strong/American Rubber/BF Goodrich rubber plantation in Barangay Baluno that's now under a cooperative, to seeing old friends on the boulevard, to Isabela City's public market on bagsakan day (products are brought from the nearby mountains to the city every Sunday) to a local-style lunch on Block 4 beach - these were such great experiences.

Isabela City - I love its diversity, its vibrancy, and its openness.

*** I STILL RECOMMEND YOU COORDINATE WITH THE ISABELA CITY TOURISM OFFICE BEFORE COMING HERE. CONTACT THEM ON FACEBOOK:   / isabelacitytourism  

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