192.00 php - airconditioned bus fare from Tarlac City to the Alaminos Victory Liner Terminal (regular fare)
154.00 php - airconditioned bus fare from Tarlac City to Alaminos Victory Liner terminal (senior citizen fare)
1500 php - 1 kubo for a family of 5. There is a common CR outside.
600.00 php - two tricycle (300.00 php each tricycle) from Burgos to Cabongaoan Beach.
30.00 php - regular bus fare from Alaminos VL terminal to Burgos (Sta Cruz route)
24.00 php - senior citizen bus fare from Alaminos VL terminal to Burgos
25.00 php - regular jeepney fare from Burgos to Alaminos VL terminal
21.00 php - senior citizen jeepney from Burgos to Alaminos VL terminal
We left Tarlac City at around 11:00 PM and arrived to Alaminos VL terminal minutes before 1:00 AM. The terminal has it's own comfort room and there's a bakery nearby.
Metrobank ATM across the Alaminos VL terminal
Buses bound to Burgos leaves the terminal at around 3:30 AM. Unfortunately, the conductor of the Burgos bus was absent that time so we rode a Sta. Cruz-bound bus instead. We left at past 3:30 AM and arrived at Burgos at around 4:30 AM. We got two tricycles since there are 5 of us and a tricycle has a capacity of 3 people. It was mostly a rough and bumpy ride to Cabongaoan Beach because the roads were still under construction so if you're commuting it's a must that you go there early because the roads will be dustier if the sun is already up. We arrived at Cabongaoan Beach at around 5:30 AM. Lessons learned on this trip, it was already March 25 which is almost peak season and we we're not expecting the crowd on the beach so we did not make a room reservation and it turned out most of the rooms were already occupied. Since we don't want to go around looking for a room anymore because we're bringing a lot of things,
we just settled for a kubo at The Cabo Beachwhich we can occupy only at 11:00 AM since the occupants would only check-out at 11:00 AM. For this reason we had to idle around for more than 5 hours which caused a lot of stress and disagreements. If you want to be nearer where the Death Pool is it's better to check-in at D'cousins Beach Resort.
We ate our lunch before 11:00 AM. When we we're finally able to check-in we slept then went out at about 12:00 PM to see what the Death Pool looks like.
 |
| below the cliff |
 |
| On the cliff |
 | ||
| they call it Death Pool but my sister would rather call it Nature's Pool |
After wading at the Nature's Pool, (we don't like calling it Death Pool as it sounds morbid) we went back to our kubo, ate and rested for a while then went back to the shore for a sunset swim.
The next day we woke up at 4:00 AM as we heard that there will be a jeepney that would be passing along the main road to Burgos for only 30.00 php per person. The jeepney arrived at around past 5:00 AM. There were some stopovers along the way so when we arrived to Alaminos VL terminal it's already about 8:30 am. My father went to the Alaminos market to buy food. He bought halaan and some dried fish. Buses bound to Dau or Cubao depart from the terminal at about 9:00 AM.