Boatmaster

After a 12 hour jeepney ride on windy, dusty roads and a boat ride across the Bashi Channel, you, Marissa, and Jordan arrive in Batanes, the farthest and tiniest northern island province on Luzon. Here, expert boatmaster, Florentino Gallana welcomes you and invites you to learn how to build tatauas and fallowas, tub-shaped boats used by the local Ivatan tribe to go fishing. Boatmaster Florentino has continued this ancient tradition passed from generation to generation, father to son, since the 16th or 17th century.