Tour of Balesin

I have been hearing so much about Balesin from friends.  I am so happy I was able to visit and finally see this place.  

Tito Rob is the expert as he has been here more than 30 times already.  He is such a great ambassador of the place – he really promotes it to all his friends, and I am fortunate he is friends with my Dad and Mom who tagged me along! 🙂 Tito Rob made a good point that  It’s only a 30 minute ride from the helipad ( located nearer home than the airport ) to the Balesin airport.  Though a plane ride takes 25 minutes, the real time is longer because you have to go to the airport, wait to board, then board the plane.  By the time you add up the time for all that – it would be more than an hour from stepping out of your house till the Balesin airport. Unless of course you are taking a private plane ( though you still have to drive to the airport ) 🙂 

This is the island as you are approaching it – I was at the back seat of the heli so I could not take a better photo 

 

The photos are in order of how we saw the island.  I thought this was a great way to see the island since we had a limited time only to stay

We started approaching the airport

then we turned left to go around the island

That’s us flying over the island

 

Taken from their website ( Click below to go to their website )

St. Tropez

Still under construction – Costa Smeralda

Mykonos

The view of the island from the tip

Phuket

Bali

landing after the tour- approaching the runway

These are the photos leaving the island 

The villas are the Balesin villas which is the Filipino part of the island

This is the Spa which hopefully I can come back to one day 

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