Exploring Aurora Province

Another site for an upcoming project... we're happy to note that Aurora Governor Bellaflor Angara-Castillo is so accommodating and she welcomes us to her province wholeheartedly. She doesn't even forget us even we got to know each other for very limited time.

I heard Aurora as a place that is so far and sort of unreachable community due to limited facilities in there. That's how i understood it, when we were planning to go there. Imagine, it's like seven hours of traveling from Manila and there are so many rough roads, not so many establishments, aside from the fact that it used to be hit by natural calamities.

So when we went there, we experienced traveling to what they say as its main link to the rest of Luzon - the narrow mountain gravel road that twists through the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, just to reach Aurora.

Because of Sen. Angara's initiatives and our office has been tapped to work with the other agencies for his proposed project for Aurora, we were forced to visit the place.
Little did we know, that despite of the difficulties in reaching Baler, Aurora, we enjoyed staying there and yes, now we don't mind going there again and again.

At first due to a very limited time, we were able to visit some facilities for the project that we are working on and a side trip to Ermita and to the Museo de Baler, one of the places I enjoyed visiting because of the stories behind it. And we were able to stay in one of the best accommodations there, well fortunately because other hotels were fully booked then. It's beachfront, so we got to enjoy the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

In our second visit, I was able to bring along my son with us. This time, he enjoyed not only the waters of the Pacific Ocean, but also another pride of the province, the El Pimentel Waterfalls, which despite of the rough roads that we had to pass through, it is all worth it.

For sure, we will get to explore more of Aurora once our project started.

If you're interested, you might want to get to know Aurora more at www.aurora.ph.