ONOK ISLAND BALABAC 🇵🇭THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND WE HAVE SEEN
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- 🇵🇭ONOK ISLAND in the Balabac group of islands is undeniably the most beautiful ISLAND we have seen during our 4 days and 3 nights island hopping expedition in the Balabac area.
Moreover, it’s without a doubt the most beautiful island we have seen in the Philippines and maybe in the world!
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Because we have chosen to do 4 days island hopping, on our second day we spent the entire day at Onok Island and we can honestly say it was still not enough time! 🥹
Onok Island is known for the GIANT CLAM SANCTUARY. These clams are so large and beautiful!
If you come here, do not miss the chance to see these amazing creatures! There can be current, so it takes a bit of effort to swim out to the sanctuary, but it’s so worth it! ♥️
The island is also famous for the big TURTLES that like to swim around the beach here, we have seen about 7-8 of them very close to eachother!
Please do not chase them, just observe them from afar, without causing them any distress (any video in this vlog that seems very close is just zoomed in).
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Right before we left the island, a large STINGRAY showed up next to our boat - it was very interesting to see how she started to cover herself in sand when we noticed her!🥰
Just be careful around them as their tail is really venomous! If they will sting you, in the best case scenario you will be in pain for days (I won’t describe worst case scenario)
I know by experience how painful their sting is, I got stung 2 years ago in Linapacan by a much smaller one (maybe 25% of the size of the one we will show you in this video) and I was in huge pain the first 8 hours - in fact, the scar area is still sensitive today.
We highly recommend choosing the 4 days expedition so you can chill here for an entire day, the island is simply JAW DROPPING and there is no chance to get bored! 😍
P.S. The are many nik niks (sandflies) on the far side of the island - we got bitten about 50 times each 😫
These bites can itch for weeks! As a solution you can put coconut oil all over your body, they will not be able to bite through the oil (don't forget to reapply) - we tested this method later in Coron and it worked - thanks for someone in the Filipino community for suggesting it!
Philippines is the most beautiful country on earth.
Most Filipinos don't have much but they are friendly, respectful and kind.
Their culture is a bonus.
Totally agree. We worked with Filipinos for many years and each time we come to the Ph we feel like coming home 🥰
OMG, IM DREAMING OF THAT PLACE, SO AMAZING
U DONT NEED TO GO MALDIVES, THE MOST EXPENSIVE ISLAND. N YET HERE IS AFFORDABLE.
Honestly, I think there are so many places in the Philippines that are way more beautiful than the Maldives, in my opinion.
I would rather spend that money and really explore the Philippines ❤️
That's they call our country a paradise because they are places not known by tourist but by the locals..so welcome to our pride and humble country the Philippines 🇵🇭.
Thanks so much♥️
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GREAT video content about Philippines, definitely the best country in the world, worth visiting and exploring. Friendly people, delicious tropical food and drinks, crystal white sandy beaches, has a lot to offer. Mabuhay to PARADISE, I love it
Thanks so much! Totally agree.
Love the place what a beaitiful place
One of the most beautiful places we have seen! 😍
Destinatia mea de vis!!! Ma bucur ca Romanii nostrii au ajuns acolo❤
Speram sa puteti ajunge acolo cat mai curand! ♥️
A paradise to behold!
Indeed😍
Nice for you guys to visit and enjoy Onok Island!
Thanks, we had a great time!🥰
Amazing 🌞. Very fortunate to visit such a beautiful island 🏝. Thanks for bringing us with you.👍🇵🇭
So pleased you enjoyed it! ♥️
You are really privileged to visit that paradise.
I personally don’t like the use of “privileged” as none of us is/was a rich kid, so we worked really hard to be able to visit so much in the Philippines. “Privileged” yes, in a political sense because a Romanian passport allows more free travel than, let’s say, a Filipino passport.
But of course we are extremely grateful to have had this chance to visit such pristine islands that we have only dreamed of when we were kids 🙏♥️
Very nice
Thanks 😍
Such a beautiful place. I want to go there soon! ❤
I hope you can visit. Don’t forget inssct repellent, especially over the “rainy” summer season in the PH, Palawan is full of nik niks 🥺
Such a beautiful place 😍 ⛵️. The Philippines 🇵🇭 is so blessed with such natural beauty 🏝 and we are so fortunate to have a ❤️ couple 💙 👩❤️👨 like you who have the passion to travel ✈️ off the beaten path and take us with you 🇹🇩 ❤️
The Philippines has it all, if only we would have the time and $$$ to go everywhere! 🙏🥰
Super!!! Have a nice life, George!
Multumesc mult! 🙌
Beautiful
Thanks ♥️
Great photography as usual. I enjoyed watching your vlog, thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for the feedback. Glad to hear you enjoyed it. 🤗
This is heaven on earth
One of the most beautiful places we have ever seen.♥️
There are very tourists there and the facilities are still being improved. Thank you for appreciating that southern part of our nature - blessed province, Palawan
Probably now with the high season there are more tourists than when we visited in June last year. It is really beautiful, I hope they will not overcrowd it like it happened in El Nido🥺
I mean very few...
OMG…it’s my dream to go here 😍✌🏻🇫🇷
We hope you will be able to go here soon ♥️
Im really happy to see you guys in the last frontier of the Philippines. Nature at its best👍👍
It’s a really amazing place, hopefully it will stay like that🙏
Wow, I can only describe it in one word PARADISE it so beautiful its so unreal amazing, thank you for showing this island, keep safe guys and Godbless
Thanks to everyone who worked to make the area safer for tourists so we can visit and show it to the world too ♥️
It’s really a piece of paradise, hopefully available to the public for a long time still- all the islands in the Balabac Group of islands are privately owned already 🥹
You're so lucky to have had the chance to experience Balabac at a time when there are still few tourists who go visit there. Watch out for crocs though.
We slept on Bugsuk island, not the main Balabac island, but I guess every now and then they wander out to the other islands too. The sea is beautiful but one must always be aware of the dangers, the stingrays are no joke either. Yes, sadly they have already started to build a resort on the island where we slept on.
Hopefully it will not get spoilt like El Nido bay - although this year with few tourists I can say the water was spotless in El Nido bay without the boats, very beautiful, compared to 2 years ago, when it was full of trash.
Saw your guys post on the travel Philippines page on Facebook. Love the vlog! Can’t wait to explore that area :) we were there last April and we head back in January :)
Thanks so much! Aw, so excited for you! Philippines is always a good idea! ♥️
Good thing EDCA is already in Balabac islands to deter the treat of terrorism that having plaguing the country quite a while meaning that isolated place will be opened and introduced to both local and foreign
Tourist or the free world that will be printed in the world map with dignity and flying colors!! ❤❤❤ 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸’
EDCA, very much
WELCOME!!
I hope we can all take care of this ecosystem and avoid polluting and damaging it 🙏
very nice. very private tour. i love it... thank you.
It was a good option to be able to create the videos. In group tours it is difficult to make videos without disturbing the other passengers 🤗
All good in the hood
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Finally! ❤ As good as expected 😍
Thank youuuu ♥️
May Allah SWT bless you and your family from Pakistan 🙂
Thanks so much, many blessing to you and your family🙌
Wow! Great video!
Thanks so much!!
Beautiful 🤩the Maldives of the Philippines
Please don't bring maldives to the Philippines. Leave it where it is. Philippines is a country of it's own. It doesn't have to be compared to another.
Agreed - we personally don't like the setting in Maldives, we're adventure travellers and can't stay in commercialised touristic spots like that. I see where Marlou is coming from, she is talking about the colour of the water and sand. Here's to hoping the Balabac Group of Islands will never become this resort controlled place.
P.S. we would rather spend the money in the Philippines, it's much more diverse❤
Maldives is 80% man-made.
@@Ravishing_Mr_Perfect exactly - for whoever likes that kind of environment, they can go to Boracay I guess?
Hi im new subcriber welcome our country and enjoy god bless us all😍😍😍🇵🇭
Salamat po! ♥️
So breathtaking
Yes! One of those pictures I used to see in travel magazines as a child and couldn’t believe they are real 😍
wow such a nice place😊
It is breathtaking. Hopefully everyone will take care of this beautiful paradise.
Happiest human alive... 🎉🎉🎉
It was indeed a very happy day🥰
What a nice place,😲
Paradise ♥️
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That was such a beautiful experience. Were the dog and cat owned by anyone or they live there.
Oh yes, the dogs belong to the family who runs the basecamp on Bugsuk island.
Garfield (the cat) belongs to the caretaker of Onok Island. The happiest cat alive to live on Onok island 😂
Hi, beautiful video! May I please ask who did you use for this tour? And if you don’t mind, can you share how much did it cost for the private tour, we are planning to do the same soon. It will be myself and my 2 teenage sons. We are so excited!
Hi Jeremy, please see the last video of Balabac on our channel, it’s a full guide.
We paid 17k PHP per person for a private tour just the 2 of us. The tour was 4 days 3 nights. I see that if it’s 3 people then it costs 15k each.
We used The Wanderwalkers:
balabac.ph
Beautiful beach ❤ what month did you visit?
@@luzkerenochoa7830 We went there in June 😊
There are still beautiful islands to discover, Calaguas, Caramoan, Balesin, Tablas, Jomalig. Off the beaten path, not known to tourist/vloggers, secluded and unexplored
Balesin is for members only dinnyan open sa public.
Romblon is a bucketlist one ❤️
But surely there are sooo many more islands in the PH, the possibilities are endless 🥰
Caramoan was once future in survivals series episode a tv series show back in 2000 in america
@@leethoo2684 Caramoan island in Camarines Sur you mean, right?
This is why the Phils. Wins every year in an International for the best beaches and tourist spot destination😁
You have it all in the Philippines 😁♥️
Amazing! What time of year did you visit?
Thank you 🥰 This was in June 🥰
Buna ziua! De la ce companie ati luat turul?
Buna ziua, de la The Wanderwalkers:
balabac.ph
Soon as the megaworld built 10 thousand acres high end resort and the giant sea turtle convention center a proposed luxurious mega resort, the tourist would be flock more than a number of tourist in boracay hoping that this development will cater all tourist needs that create more jobs for locals including zamboanga a home of spanish culture to Bangsamoro regions in BARMM
Where are they building that?
Have a nice romantic dinner on me. And thank you again for your travel-inspiring vlogs. It's so heart warming to see how in-love you are with each other! 👩❤️👨
Oh, my! Thanks so much for your kindness and generosity🙌 Much appreciated ❤️
It’ll be our 12 year anniversary soon, right on time 🥰
@@roamaniacs Advance Happy Anniversary and my wishes for many more years of happiness, health, and safe travels together!
@@travellingvloggerfan12 thanks so much ♥️
Bakabacbis unlike pacific oceania..not much dangerous sharks, no too much deep water, no too big wave,
The most dangerous are the nikniks :)
@@roamaniacs maybe you mean in bisaya called wak-wak :-) yes to many here
How to get there from cebu city?
Fly to Puerto Princessa. Book a tour with The Wanderwalkers, they’ll pick you up with a shared van and take you to Port Buliluyan down South Palawan.
Please watch the Balabac Travel Guide video on our channel, we covered everthing you need to know about this trip ☺️
During the early 2000s to 2015.nobody dares to come to such.places . It was infested by terrorist . But during the advent of President Duterte he modernize the navy and be friend the separattist rebels to such extent that they become the confluent of peace and security throughout the archipelago. Nowadays you can reach as far as Tawi tawi with tourism officials to greet and guide you to perfect destination on the islands.
Yes, thanks for this, maybe others who are afraid here will see and understand we haven’t wandered out there mindlessly without researching the current situation. I can confirm we have never felt unsafe. Yes, the locals are much less shy than in other more popular areas of the PH, but that is natural as they were not so exposed to tourists🙏
The reason is not because of Duterte, but because of social media. People now tend to look for instagrammable experience.
@@japanese_flashcard_channel the entire Philippines is “instagrammable”. This entire planet is. Now it depends what everyone finds more important, to actually enjoy the place and be there in the moment, or live for social media. We have seen people (especially local travellers) only taking pictures, videos following all trends and not stopping to breathe for a moment and acknowledge the great place they are in.
However, not to argue, but more people coming here can’t be the only reason why suddenly the area is safer. Whilst we were there actually we have seen very few other people. As you can see in the video, most of the time we were the only people on every island.
@@roamaniacs i prefer your vlogs than other vloggers. I wish you have 50k subscribers while you're in the Philippines.
@@japanese_flashcard_channel thanks so much for your kind words. Happy to have likeminded people here 🙌
Where is base camp?
Punta Sebaring - Bugsuk Island
Balabac waters are extremely blue and it's glowing. I've been to other beautiful islands also, but Balabac blue feels that there are lights underwater, because they glow in different shades of blue
Yes, the glow and sparkle is different, so beautiful! ♥️
@@roamaniacs if you have time to visit the Philippines in summer. Check out Palumbanes island in Caramoan Catanduanes. That area are different kind of landscape and seascape beauty, also the bodies of water is Pacific Ocean that's why i want to saw it in your eyes to witness how beautiful the islands on that area.
@@roamaniacs Canibungan and Bancalan/Bancalaan island island area has the most concentrated blue, but the pure whitesand seabed that has zero corals and sea grass. The area of Bonbon beach around Bugsuk island they have infinity pools there and the area are so wide Cerulean Blue waters
Deci cum arata… 🥹🥹🥹
Bate pana si plajele din Caraibe pe care am fost ❤️
Is there a store in onok island?
There is no store, only private tours come here. But on Bugsuk island where the basecamp is, they do have a sari sari store, you can buy chips and crackers and stuff like that :)
This is where Geo Ong found DOMENG!!!!
Wow!
Stingrays! Better watch-out for those before you get stinged!
I already got stung in Linapacan 🥹 2 years ago. Told the story in the Balabac part 1 vlog. It was really painful 😫
@@roamaniacs Nobody will go there anymore. Too much risks involved.
@@emmettasinas8890 oh it happened to me in Linapacan, not in Balabac.
Well every day is a risk anywhere according to where you live, I think there’s a bigger chance for a car to hit you than getting stung by a stingray :) I just happened to be in the exception percentage 😄
@@emmettasinas8890 please stay in your room you might trip over and hit your head while roaming inside your house.🤣
1 don't play with your food 2 most beautiful island? show me something if you just swim it's nothing different from most other beaches
It’s all about perspective, what’s beautiful for me might not be as beautiful for you 😊 There are plenty of places in this world to satisfy our individual visual pleasures, thankfully 🙌