About below Video: Floating cottages in Batangas, Philippines / Floating Bamboo houses or "Balsa" / Bamboo Raft beach experience - Little Boracay and Sandbar - Brgy. Poblacion 4 Calatagan Batangas Philippines. Cinematic travel video and beach hopping - beach summer fun 2021. If you want to have a quick summer getaway in very affordable and nearby Manila (4 Hours travel time) this one’s for you. They called it Little Boracay where the long stretch of white sand and clear crystal water with different corals and lots of starfish. The place features floating cottages (Bamboo raft tourism) or "balsa", Sand Bar, star fish island. This is not a beach front - you have to ride balsa or bamboo raft to reach beach and sandbar, just 10 to 15 min bamboo raft / floating cottage ride.
There is really this backpacking adventure called sandbar hopping and of course you can experience it best in the Philippines. In 2019, the National Mapping and Resource Information (NAMRIA) has confirmed that there are 500 new islands in the Philippines making the famous Philippine 7,107 islands an outdated fact. The Philippines now has total number of islands in the archipelago to over 7,600 making it the best country to go hopping on breathtaking and panoramic sandbars.
