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Susulan Tawi-Tawi Bloggers visited Panampangan Island

5/24/2015 07:54:00 PMFJ HAMJA

The two prominent bloggers Ms. Kai Darul and Mr. Fermin J. Hamja of Susulan Tawi-Tawi visited the Panampangan Island of Sapa-Sapa Municipality on May 21, 2015. Panampangan Island is one of the most famous and visited islands in the province of Tawi-Tawi. It is also well known as "Tawi-Tawi's Virgin Island" since it is still untouched. It's beach blessed with powdery white sand, abundant of fishes and other sea creatures and crystal clear seawater.

The Susulan Tawi-Tawi Bloggers

Sapa-Sapa is one of the eleven municipalities in Tawi-Tawi in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines which belongs to the Mindanao group of islands. Sapa-Sapa is seated about 48 km east of Bongao, the Tawi-Tawi's capital municipality and about 1,069 km sout of Philippine main capital Manila. It is a third class municipality and is classified as partly urban. This municipality occupies an area of 235.61 km square. Administratively, the Sapa-Sapa Municipality is subdivided into 23 barangays. One forms the center of the municipality whereas the other 22 are in the outlaying areas. Some of them are even several kilometers away from the center of the municipality. Among the bigger cities and municipalities in the neighborhood of Sapa-Sapa there are Bongao 47 km west, Siasi (Sulu) 91 km north-east, Languyan 30 km north-west, Panglima Sugala 24 km north-west, Sitangkai 96 km west-south-west, Simunul 41 km west-south-west, Tandubas 27 km north-west-east as well as 36 km east-north-east of Sapa-Sapa, the municipality of South Ubian (Source: Google)

Panampangan Island

How to get to Panampangan?

There are two options getting into Panampangan:

The first option to get here is by riding a motor launch (lantsa) from Bongao, the capital of the province. The motor launch would take you to the Bannaran Island of Sapa-Sapa for about three hours from Bongao pier. Bannaran is the capital town of Sapa-Sapa municipality, so from here you can rent a pump boat or speed boat that would take you to Panampangan Island.

The second option is by renting a speed boat from Bongao that would take you directly to Panampangan Island. Though, it is quite expensive but your time would be saved because riding speed boat would only consume your time for less than hour in the travel.

Panampangan Beach is famous for its white sand and longest shoreline in Mindanao.

The shoreline connects to the other Island 'Basah Bulih" for more than one kilometer away.

The crystal clear water of Panampangan Island

Star fishes are everywhere in the island.

The lepa of a certain Badjao family that looked for a living in the Panampangan Island shoreline.

The visitors on their way to the island.

What an awesome sight when the rainbow came across the island.

The Susulan Tawi-Tawi bloggers were with their friends when they spent a day in Panampangan Island. Ms. Meg Kaga, a professor from Hiroshima University was also with them.