The Dipnaysupuan Tunnels were built deep into the rock face by the occupying Japanese during WWII using forced local labour; you can explore the tunnels with a torch. They're en route from Radar Tukon weather station towards Valugan Boulder Beach.
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A road leads up to a trail where it's an easy five-minute walk to views over rocky beach and the endless, green Vayang Rolling Hills. If the weather is…
6.11 MILES
Ivana is home to the Unesco-listed House of Dakay (1877), the oldest stone house in the Batanes.
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From Basco it’s a 1½-hour walk, a tough 30-minute bike ride or an easy tricycle jaunt up to Radar Tukon, a weather station on a hilltop with great 360…
0.74 MILES
Tukon Chapel is an appealing stone church built by the Abad family for their daughter's wedding in 2008; it's a 1¼-hour uphill hike southeast of Basco.
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This sacred fishing port for Barangay San Joaquin is a beach made up of exercise-ball-sized boulders.
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Basco Lighthouse is 1.2km north of Basco. Climbing it will give you stellar views of the coast.
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A refreshing spring and pool that's a 20-minute walk from the fishing village of Diura.
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0.67 MILES
This sacred fishing port for Barangay San Joaquin is a beach made up of exercise-ball-sized boulders.
0.74 MILES
Tukon Chapel is an appealing stone church built by the Abad family for their daughter's wedding in 2008; it's a 1¼-hour uphill hike southeast of Basco.
0.85 MILES
From Basco it’s a 1½-hour walk, a tough 30-minute bike ride or an easy tricycle jaunt up to Radar Tukon, a weather station on a hilltop with great 360…
1.22 MILES
Basco Lighthouse is 1.2km north of Basco. Climbing it will give you stellar views of the coast.
2.16 MILES
A road leads up to a trail where it's an easy five-minute walk to views over rocky beach and the endless, green Vayang Rolling Hills. If the weather is…
2.88 MILES
A refreshing spring and pool that's a 20-minute walk from the fishing village of Diura.
6.11 MILES
Ivana is home to the Unesco-listed House of Dakay (1877), the oldest stone house in the Batanes.