In this episode of Nellyslife, we uncover one of the Philippines’ best kept secrets—the stunning Bantayan Island! Known for its white sandy beaches, crystal-clear waters, and laid-back vibe, Bantayan Island is a hidden paradise that deserves to be on every traveler's bucket list. Join us as we explore this tropical gem and reveal why it’s the ultimate destination for those seeking serenity, adventure, and breathtaking natural beauty.
Our adventure begins as we sail across turquoise waters to reach Bantayan Island, located off the coast of Cebu. Once we arrive, we dive right into the island’s amazing activities—relaxing on pristine beaches, swimming in the warm waters, and experiencing the charm of the local culture. From cycling through quaint villages to indulging in fresh seafood, Bantayan Island offers an authentic island experience far away from crowded tourist spots.
🎥 Become a Youtuber and turn your passion into a career 💰 https://freedomcreatoracademy.co ✈️ Check out my website for travel tips and deals: https://www.nellyslife.co 🤳🏻 Follow me on my other Socials: link.me/nellyslife__ ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://www.paypal.me/nellyslife 📬 Business Inquiries: [email protected] ____ 0:00 Intro 0:55 Boracay or Cebu? 1:55 Amihan Beach Cabanas Tour 4:05 Travel Hack with Timekettle Translator 6:24 Pearls of Bantayan Island 7:35 Exploring Bantayan Town 10:35 Bantayan Night Market Seafood 12:05 Waking up in Bantayan Island 14:01 Bantayan Beach Swim 15:59 Exploring Kota Beach 19:38 Paying my Utang
ah what a way to wake up how nice this
looks like the mives really I'm looking
at it and it's just palm trees white and
Beach how did I miss out on this
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place wow wow wow swimming time hi wow
something she prepared
earlier just Philippines being
Philippines how is this
real my next travel Adventure through
the Philippines is awaiting
I was traveling by car with my friends
Carson and Zoe and we took the roro
ferry to our next destination this time
I'm exploring a new
place Bayan
Island it's place as the Baraka of cibu
with white andand beaches less crowded
and more laid back but can it to bakai
let's see wow wow wow wow am I in borai
or am I in the northern part of SIU yes
I am I am in bantayan Island it's my
first time here and it is so so nice I
am blown away I'm currently here at the
Aman Beach Cabanas Resort and it is so
lovely as you can see turquise water
white said Beach it looks like the Baro
high of seu and I totally get it now
like so many of my followers said you
should go to Bayan bantayan Island and
uh experience it for yourself and here I
am finally
made it to this paradise here with my
friends KAS and Zoe we are going to
enjoy our time here at the resort we had
a few travel days they were quite hectic
uh changing a lot of locations um and
this is uh just our chill out spot so
we're just going to show you the
property and um hopefully make you want
to come here because wow this is like
Heavenly Heavenly right by the beach is
our lovely home our lovely AB board with
a private pool here it's a twostory
building with beach view I
mean how nice this looks like the moldes
really cute little boat over there a
look at these clouds wow this is our
little pool area the downstairs living
room lovely little couch here a second
entrance here on the side oh man this is
what dreams I made of
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ah and let me just tell you falling
asleep to the sound of ocean
waves you can't beat that it's so
peaceful so so nice the only thing that
you can hear here are some boats far
away but otherwise o so lovely I'm just
going to chill here for a little bit
order myself a mango shake food ah yeah
life can be so good how are you enjoying
your stay it's very nice yeah it's very
hot I just had to film without the airon
oh but but there is air con but there is
airon it's a nice place it's a lovely
lovely view that we have here Prett
chill pretty chill nice
blue water white sand what more can you
ask
for uh Carson filmed some drone shots
and it looks absolutely absolutely epic
I'll give it to
nilia want to get out let's get it
popping let's get it
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Popp
PE I'm hot you're hot it is really hot
very hot it's very bright so sunglasses
would be nice but we're in Paradise
there we
go w something she prepared
[Laughter]
earlier while you guys are watching this
video I'm already packing for my next
trip and one of my must haves is the
time Kettle interpreter earbuds which
I'm going to unbox with you guys and
tell you about the new features maybe
you remember I have the translated
device from time Kettle but this is a
game changer when it comes to different
scenarios in my life finally I got my
hands on the AI interpreter earbuds W4
Pro from time Kettle and here are some
features it has a battery life of 6
hours it autoc connects in 2 seconds it
comes with 40 languages and 93 accents
and the best part 95% accuracy what a
beauty what a nice packaging wow maybe
by now you already know that I love my
little travel gadgets and travel hacks
so this is definitely one that I can
highly recommend these are the earbuds
looking super super cool and all you
have to do is press this little button
in the back and connect with your time
headle app let me just see ooh this is
convenient oh hello oh feeling like an
agent here all right let's try one onone
hello I want to try this new device to
see if it translates
correctly and being that I'm a German
native speaker I can confirm this is
100% correct and what's interesting to
me it also translates the grammar
correctly second feature I want to try
is watch a YouTube video and have it
transl in real
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time that was pretty impressive I had
one piece in my ear and the other piece
I held to the microphones so that you
can listen to the translation and
another feature that they have is you
can translate your Skype calls even when
you're talking to a business partner it
can translate oneon-one and you can give
the piece to someone else it's super
convenient very hygienic it doesn't go
into the ear so all good yeah pretty
impressive nice design and of course
time Kettle gave me a discount code for
you guys it is in the description box
down below as
always okay enough talk for now let's
have some fun shall we hello oh hello
Mom okay so you can buy some pearls here
yes real real yes how much is it this
one yeah okay for you $5 only $5 yes I
only have pesos peso okay for 200 200
yes let me just have a look oh this is
nice this this one Pandora look
M scratch yeah wow no scratch these are
cute that one Pandora yeah very
expensive in m mom oh Pandora par can I
try on okay all
right this is cute ooh very nice how
much is the necklace one set big
earrings yeah 5K 5K this looks very nice
all right I decided to go with a
necklace and I got myself some pearl
earrings necklace is apparently opal um
this is poll and uh this is Jeffrey if
you see Jeffrey around say hi he's
making a living by selling PS and the
poles are actually from here and way
cheaper than in the mall right yes yes
so get it while you're here on vacation
thank you qua have a nice day have a
nice day
bye-bye all right it was time to get out
of the resort see what's happening in
town I hear some
music maybe some jazz music Hi how are
you I think there's some live music
happening here later let me check live
band every Friday and Saturday 700 p.m.
hi are you playing
tonight nice what kind of music 7M rock
song rock song okay I'll see you later
you later
woo nice lovely this is the little town
here I don't know if you can see ah
there we go this is the little town I'm
just going to take a stroll I saw they
have some coffee shops around here some
restaurants Carson and Zoe are chilling
having a little bit of a rest and I'm
just going to explore I think I spoted a
little market here uh MJ Square hello
they have some restur FR here Korean
what is this Asian American
International Cuisine Seafood House
souvenirs ice cream fute necklaces all
right found this little spot called COC
Loco let's see they have fresh Buco I'm
craving some fresh Buco it's so quiet I
don't know if anybody's here ah hello hi
hi oh I have to go over there ah this is
it yeah oh this is so cute how are you
okay I'll have a buku please Fresh B
fresh Buu yeah
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okay here is the phenomenon of the
Philippines I only had a $1,000 pezo
bill and they couldn't give our change
and they said it's okay ma'am you can
just come later and give me 50 pesos
because we we don't have change I'm like
are you sure I'm like yeah yeah come by
I later or tomorrow I'm like okay um I
told them where I'm staying so in case I
forget but uh yeah incredible look how
cute this is so nicely decorated but
yeah I do have to admit that it is very
very hot and I'm sweating I'm going back
to the beach we will come back later
when it cools down a little bit and
we'll probably also go to have some
street food or like no I heard there's a
night market with seafood I heard the
seafood here is phenomenal so that is a
must try for me so I'm very very excited
for now let's go back to the beach back
at the hotel nice Ocean Breeze yeah Zoe
told me there's actually a very specific
expression for when you go to a shop and
say you'll pay later which
isut and I'm a pal utang which means I
like always say utang so like if you
have your favorite sorry sorry store
anywhere that you're like Suki and Suki
is like a regular yeah um or like if
they just trust you then you can be like
oh what
it and I was like yeah it's just like an
honesty system which I think is really
nice yeah lovely
so I got a lot of
dogs here ma hello I got some viewers
from Sabu City hello hi hi just R into
each other nice to meet you here at the
market so we're going to grab some food
all right we found a spot it's going to
be some seafood all right our food came
out and uh we might have over ordered
that's a rice cake it's not even a cup
of rice it's a cake of rice
turn on the light here we have
everything from the menu that is
probably worth trying I hope it's worth
it because it's
1,450 yep we hungry ban is famous for
their scallops for the scallops yes so
scallops I'm Australian I said scallops
um so I said to Nelly that she has to
try the scallops in bonaya okay um oh
there she go she's G for it
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these are the shells that we found on
the beach today oh yeah yeah that's good
it's a lot of butter though but right
yeah all right we had a few pieces yeah
really good um love the P I haven't had
any crab yet Nellie said it was good
shrimp's good yeah everything's like
really good pleasantly surprised all
right he smashed it good job Zoe I'm
still going that was a portion for what
four to six people four
girls going to eat girls going to
eat wow wow wow good morning it is the
next day what a way to wake up I wasn't
vlogging that much yesterday because I
just wanted to take it all in it is so
so so relaxing here yeah I need a coffee
I need breakfast and then I'll probably
go for a swim just take you along
through the day we're going to do some
activities here a they're still here our
shells so Zoe and I took a little sunset
walk and we were just collecting shells
found these super super beautiful very
vibrant look at this one and she found a
bone so we saw this couple German couple
made some friends I mean I don't know if
we're friends we've said hello I've said
H and they're going for a swim but now
yeah right
now but they have a routine and I just
like love them for how relaxed they are
because I cannot I'm not like that I
can't be like that but they sleep on the
sunbeds they go for a swim and I will
bet my bottom dollar that they will have
breakfast after
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this yeah all they do is just sleep swim
eat repeat what
a I mean I could do that I I see why oh
man I I admire them I'm envious yeah
because my brain can't shut up long
enough to do that yeah they so cute
German couple by the way so I'm pretty
sure they put the towel at 6:00 a.m. in
the morning at the sun bed because it's
theirs it's always always the second one
it's always the second one they must
really like how that one feels Germans
like
routines would you look at that fruit
PL all the
goods swimming time woo
that's such a nice view look at these
cheeky palm trees oh my
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goodness a nice little swim water is so
salty here they basically just floating
unfortunately not so many fish uh
because it's Sandy and there's no Carl
Reef here but
I mean that's why it looks like this
it's so pretty all righty got to keep
myself busy so I got myself the kayak
for a little a little ride because why
not all right so we have a see through
kayak which is so beautiful for really
nice Instagram
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sh wow wow wow it's almost sunset time
almost this has been nice I can
definitely see why Seas love to come
here it's really very relaxing Zoe is
having
fun are you having fun Zoe so much fun
it's not like Baraka I don't think you
can compare it's beautiful Baraka is way
busier and this is a little bit more
with a laidback Vibe ooo there we go
made it to the
put a Shore I'm going to cool down a
little bit in the water and then we're
going to have I guess a little sunset
walk Zoe and I were collecting shs
yesterday I didn't Vlog it because I
just wanted to have some offline time
I've been traveling for a month and I
needed a day to just rest and just be in
the moment um so that was nice but yeah
I'm going to take you along today I feel
Super Fresh thanks to this place oo look
at those drone shots damn damn Cara
I'm currently on my Beach Walk and I
decided to just walk a little bit
further and discover this beautiful
absolutely beautiful Lagoon here now are
people over there swimming there's the
ocean on this side I have white sand
beach here white sand beach there I
don't know how this is real but this is
true Paradise like it's not even that
crowded this is the popular Kota Beach
here I'm looking at it and it's just
palm trees white andand Beach lagoons
how did I miss out on this place for so
long actually you it was you guys in the
comment section that recommended it many
many times so I'm glad I made it here
finally
to find this paradise e
a look at this little shell so cute I
have to follow this path to make it to
the other sand bank because it's high
tide right now so if there's no high
tide you can actually just walk here
nice little morning
walk I made it to the other side sand
Bank is still there there are some
people just chilling there's some
restaurants there's a family having a
little
picnic over there a girl with a dog
hey h are you oh my God you look so
wet you look so wet
huh I know this is a very chill Vlog I
need I need chill Vlogs as well because
I say to Carson and Zoe after a full
month of travel and just changing
location and having like a full program
of activities every day not being able
to rest at all like literally just
catching up on sleep while I'm in the
car or like in between it's really
difficult because even though it looks
like I'm just having fun on these trips
I also have to squeeze in some work I
mean vlogging is obviously part of my
work but I also have to sit down and
just be on my laptop for a few hours so
you know when I'm on fairies when I'm at
airports I Tred to squeezing work and
this this is really good for me like I
need to rest I need to take it all in
yeah and I feel like this is the perfect
place to to do so just unwind taking
long walks by the beach I meditated in
the morning woke up to the sound of the
ocean it's sunny wo it's sunny it's a
beautiful place it's very chill and I
can highly highly recommend coming here
there's some kids playing here by the
boat so
cute
Hello cute sorry sorry store I feel like
this is going to be an endless walk just
right by the beach look at this just
just cute just cute just Philippines
being Philippines how is this
real yeah I'm going to go back now um
unfortunately it's the last day so we
have to pack but uh I definitely want to
be back here especially if I just want
to take some days off when I'm in seu
area for sure wow look at that Palm
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Tre feeling pretty look at all these
possibilities
the world
is
we
all back at amihan that was a nice walk
the only thing that is missing now is uh
paying my utang utang utong utong I
think it's utong not sure um yeah got to
pay my dues at the coconut
stand coconut stove let's go hello I'm
coming to pay my UT
there I owee uh 50 pesos for the coconut
I was here a few days ago thank you
thank you see you next time all right
done can leave the island without
that
Sunshine everybody loves song it don't
matter where you go it don't matter
where you cuz everybody loves everybody
l
everybody loves the sunsh