It took 6 hours starting from my town, Tinigban ( Municipality of Aroroy, Province of Masbate) to Carles, Iloilo. We used boat all the way to Carles with over 30 passengers with my mother to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins of couse. The boat’s time departure was exactly 6 o’clock in the morning and arrived 12 noon at the said destination. In the middle of the journey, I started to feel uncomportable and somehow afraid because in the middle of the sea the waves are getting bigger and bigger. Another reason is that, it is my first time again to experience a wavy long distance travel using boat.
Aside from visiting our relatives in Carles, we used to be there because we wanted to see the popular spot visited by the peaple in our place and peaple in its nearby places. This spot is what the call Agtalin Shrine, a gigantic statue of Virgin Mary on the mountain. It is located in the Municipality of Pilar, Province of Capiz, the said statue was considered as the tallest Virgin Mary image in the country with 80 feet of height. It is believed that it has an ability to heal even encurable diseases by praying faithfully at the shrine.
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