Batangas (Batangas City)

Masasa Beach

- Just across Anilao lies Maricaban Island under the township of Tingloy, also popularly referred to as “Tingloy Island”. One of its fast-rising stars is Masasa Beach, which caters best to those more game for a roughing-it-out kind of beach trip. A public beach, Masasa is devoid of the usual string of resorts, save for some nipa huts loosely strewn in the area for rent by enterprising locals. Tourists are encouraged to patronize the small inns and local homestays that are slowly sprouting up inland if you wish to stay a night or two.

Fortune Island

- Closer to the mainland now in Nasugbu is the mysterious and haunting Fortune Island. Originally developed in the nineties as an uber luxury, the absence of any viable freshwater source forced the development to a halt in 2006.What is left is a surreal collection of abandoned spaces and buildings, most notable of which are the pillars of a Parthenon-inspired structure along a narrow strip of land that would give any tourist a taste of the Athenian ruins.