Visiting Liloan’s Lighthouse

The weather is quiet cloudy and I was expecting to rain last Saturday afternoon. When I left home, the rain had just started to fall and my friends decided to visit Liloan’s lighthouse. I’ve heard this place a couple of times from my berks and to some fella photographers. As a matter of fact, this is one of the favorite shooting locations for most of them. And to note, Lilo-an’s lighthouse had won several grand prize entry to photography contests like Petron.

According to Wiki, Liloan’s Parola(lighthouse) is one of the best known landmarks in Lilo-an located at Bagacay Point. The original lighthouse was built in 1857 by the Spanish. However, the current tower was constructed in 1904 by order of William Howard Taft, the first Governor-General of the Philippines and later the President of the United States. The tower is 72 feet tall and remains in active use today.

Since everyone of us were first timers, we lost our way getting to the lighthouse. When we reached at the corner of municipal plaza, we asked one lady and she told us to go straight right after the bridge. We did so. We’re almost 10 minutes travelling far from the corner of the plaza and we haven’t found yet the landmark. We went back and ask another guy and this time he guided us going there. Thanks to this man as without him we might going to nowhere.

Well take note, the lady who instructed us how to get there was right but she also forgot to tell us that we will take a left turn when we reached or have seen the Amara signage perhaps 1 or 2 minutes away right after the bridge(there’s only 1 bridge). Amara is a private village near the lighthouse. You don’t need to get inside the village because the lighthouse is far straight at Amara’s entrance.

I didn’t noticed that the rain already stopped and the sun came out. It’s a breath taking experience also when it’s your first time, right? I really wanted to capture the lighthouse with drops of rain or that leaves of the trees falling from strong winds. I was assuming then it would give me a nice effect. But i think, my expectations were not meant to be and we ended taking photos of ourselves and the 72-feet tower. Upon reaching the landmark, we saw a group of photographers, lovers, friends and families having their picnic. Dusk is coming and it’s time to go home.