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Come Away to Balesin - by Rome Jorge for the The Sunday Times
Balesin Island is the anti-Boracay. No noisy  rabble hogging the beaches. No misplaced themed restaurants spoiling the local fauna. No noisy tricycles farting diesoline fumes. Balesin Island is nothing but a horizon of white sand, crystal waters and lush greenery at daytime, and a sky of glittering stars and fireflies at night. more

Balesin-Fatuation - by Tals Diaz, Philippine Daily Inquirer
SO THE temperatures have soared north, a canvas of a cerulean sky out your window peers back at you temptingly, and it's an impossible feat to convince your companions that the growing sweat stain splashed across your T-shirt is really the map of Africa. Short of shaving your head and tearing out your clothes to run amuck through the air-conditioned byways of shopping mall complexes, you're dreaming of a real escape, to traipse barefoot and half-naked through the natural Shangri-Las of sand far away from the stress in the city. Yep, summer has arrived, and you're starting to feel beachy. more

Some thoughts on Aging, Birdwatching and Greenspaces for the Working People - by Leni Sutcliffe
Just to stir up the pot a little, I'd like to cite the example of Balesin, which we visited recently. This island of more than 400 hectares is partly a resort (complete with a golf course and a runway for six-seater or four-seater planes), partly a barrio of fishermen and their families, partly rocky headland, partly grassland, but mainly a low forest interspersed with tall native trees like >the buro-buro, antipolo, talisay, balete. more