A falua (above) is a hardy boat that plies the roiling waters between the islands of Batanes, the northernmost island group and province of the Philippines. These waters, where the vast Pacific Ocean and the smaller China Sea meet, are to say the least, unpredictable. You could sail on them in the morning, towards say Sabtang Island, as if the sea were a placid lake, and come back in the afternoon to Basco, the main island, in a boiling cauldron which, if you were not familiar nor partly Ivatan, you think you might not survive. Ivatans, the Batanes natives, take the afternoon sea as a matter of course. On clear dawns, they say, you could hear the cock crow from Lanyu, the southernmost isle of the Taiwan group.
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What do balîgang/duhat, Edd Aragon
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