La Union 2015: La Union

La Union is a province located in Region I (Ilocos Region) and known as the Surfing Capital of the North.

Last October 2015, we visited and explored this province. We went to Partas Bus Terminal in Pasay and hopped in bus going to Abra. We bought ticket for 12:00 midnight trip. :)

We arrived at San Fernando, La Union at 7:00am :) (it was a loooonnngg trip). We took a quick breakfast and headed to our first destination at Luna :) We rode an ordinary bus going to Vigan from San Fernando. All buses bound to Vigan passes through Balaoan town. When we reached Balaoan, we rented a tricycle going to Luna :)

Balaoan Church

Inside Balaoan Church

After 15 to 20 minutes, we arrived in our first stop, the famous Namacpacan Church or also known as Santa Catalina de Alejandria Church :)

Inside the Namacpacan Church :)

Next stop is the pebble beach. It was the first time I went to a pebble beach, well obvously, it compose of colorful pebbles instead of sand. Along the pebble beach, the ruins of watch tower is located. :)

Stone picking is the main livelihood of residents nearby the beach, like these women doing :)

Pebbles overload!

After few minutes of chatting with the locals, we headed to Bahay na Bato :) This newest attraction in La Union is located in Barangay Nalvo Norte, Luna, La Union :)

Pretty obvious that this house was made of stones and pebbles from the pebbles beach of course! This house was a family rest house owned by Dr. Edison and Dra. Purita Noble and turned into a one of tourist destination in Luna!

We paid P20.00 for the entrance fee :)

The house also composed of color painted Korean symbols/words engraved stones, carvings, wood sculptors and art crafts designed and made by Korean artist named Vong Kim :)

The visitors wrote a note on the stone and display in this table. I also seen some of famous personalities wrote a note too!

We just roamed around the house and took pictures :)

We went to 2nd floor of the house and we were amazed with the view and the interior!

We headed back to Balaoan and rode a bus to Urbiztondo :)

The famous landmark of Antonio Luna :)

We checked in at Urbiz Garden Plage. We just put our bags and look for a resto to feed our empty (and angry) stomach. Hahaha!

We rode a jeep and told the driver to drop us off in Urbiztondo Grill House.

We ordered sisig and nilagang baka. The food tasted just fine. Maybe I had high expectation because of high rates in Tripadvisor. Learned a lesson :)

We went back to our hotel and rest. We reserved a room beforehand in Urbiz Garden Plage. The B&B has a good reviews in Tripadvisor with reasonable price! We availed a room cost P3,000.00 (low season rate) with free breakfast! And the place is beach front! I strolled around and was impressed with the place :) I had a chance to chat with Tina Antonio, who manage the place. Her grandparents built the house :) The place is located along the high way, so easy to locate :)

Beautiful house and garden and relaxing :) We wish to stay here longer :)

Here are the photos :)

Spacious and super clean room :)

According to Tina, this place can rent also for wedding venue, reception and Photoshoots :)

We rested and enjoy the view of Urbiz Garden Plage the whole afternoon. We hopped a jeep going to San Fernando and had a dinner in well known resto and best halo halo in town, the Halo halo de Iloko :)

Very artisty interior :)

The food tasted very good!

The famous and yummy halo halo :)

We had a quick stroll around the area and went back to our hotel :)

On next day, we woke up early to prepare our things to check out :( We enjoyed the breakfast served and it was delicious!

We checked out at Urbiz Garden and headed to Macho Temple :)

Bit goodbye to my 36th province! :) Had a great weekend!

Here's the breakdown of expenses:

Travel date: October 10-11 2015