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Province in Cagayan Valley, Luzon
Batanes
- PSGC
- 0200900000
- Population
- 18,937 (2020)
- Known for
- stone houses, rolling hills, honesty coffee shop, coconut crab
18,937People
6Towns and cities
Stone housesRolling hillsHonesty coffee shopCoconut crab
About Batanes
Ivatan houses have limestone walls a metre thick and cogon roofs, because the typhoons up here arrive with nothing in the way to slow them down. Batanes is the smallest province in the country by both people and land, and almost as close to Taiwan as to the Luzon mainland: 190 kilometres from one, 162 from the other. Basco, on Batan island, is the capital.
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The Philippines’ SAFEST Province [EP. 1]
Jessica Lee
Where Batanes is
20.5833, 121.9000Visit
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Marlboro CountryOpen pasture on a headland above the sea, with cattle grazing and a view to Mount Iraya. It is also called Racuh a Payaman.
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Basco LighthouseA six-storey lighthouse on Naidi Hill in Barangay San Antonio, with a deck over Basco and the open sea. You reach it on foot: the hike up from …
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Sabtang IslandThe southernmost island municipality of Batanes, known for the stone-house villages of Savidug and Chavayan and for the Morong arch on its shore. Steep mountains and deep canyons …
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House of DakayThe oldest stone house in Batanes, built in 1887 and lived in since.
Eat
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BATANES LITTLE CAFECafe · Basco · ₱
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Honesty Coffee ShopRestaurant · Ivana · ₱
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Icy Hot by The Ivatan ChefRestaurant · Basco · ₱
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La Ninay's food stallRestaurant · Mahatao · ₱₱
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Taga-Uyugan ka? Say hi.Uyugan · 0 replies
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