Road Trip: Taal Heritage Village

Last Friday, we were thinking of places to go to this weekend.
Since my husband wants to see Ala-Vigan type of places (which are not that far), we've searched our way through Google.
We came across this place called "Taal Heritage Village" (or Town).
At first, I had an impression that this place is a less-traveled one.
Seeing not too much reviews, my hubby hesitated to go.

Come Sunday, my hubby had an extreme change of mind and have decided to go out and explore this place.  Talking about spontaniety, huh?!!  We didn't even get a chance to research on how to go to this place.  We did read some articles about it BUT, we forgot to check out maps or directions on how to go there.  Silly us!  We were only equipped with a single knowledge (or CLUE) that our point of reference is Tagaytay.

And so, what the heck, go!


Details of "How-To-Go-To's"...

We cruised along Skyway and then, SLEX.
From SLEX, we went through Sta. Rosa Exit.
Since it was a spontaneous road trip and we went out late (roughly past 10am), we've decided to have our lunch somewhere along the way.

Our first stop was:  The Paseo de Sta. Rosa.

It was our first time to visit this new promenade.

Here, we ate at The Spaghetti Factory to further orchestrate (at least) a small plan on how to get to our chosen destination.  Good thing, they have free WiFi!

While planning our path directions, we went "all sweet-tooth" and dug in to their Colossal Choco-Chip Cookie ala Mode.

TOSH:  Colossal Choco-Chip Cookie ala Mode

This is one "heavenly" dessert!  The only catch is, you should order this immediately along with the main course.  It takes 15 minutes to prepare since they're baking the cookie upon order.

After havin' lunch, we strolled around the place for a bit and then went on.

We just cruised along the Sta. Rosa Road.

At the end, we reached the Tagaytay-Calamba Road, Tagaytay.

It's a T-Road on which we turned left.

We turned right to Ligaya Drive (a path that we've just found out via Google while havin' lunch).  Be careful, though, this road is like the Naguilian Road in Baguio.  It's a downhill zigzag!

When we've reached the end, we asked a local which way to go to Lemery (the location of the Taal Heritage Village).  She pointed us to the left road* (coming from Ligaya Drive) on which, she (the local we've talked to) is much more familiar with.

* - We just found out that we should have taken right!  The one going to P. Laurel.

By asking different locals, we cruised along the Tanauan Road.

Even went into STAR Tollway.

Until we've finally reached Lemery.

Since we took the long road going to our destination, we've arrived quite late (around 5:00pm).

However, we were so blessed to have a sunset capturing the beauty of the Basilica de San Martin de Tours (Taal).

When the sun totally went down, we couldn't explore the town further.

There were streets that are not lit plus our son was already tired.

And so, we just went on to have dinner at one of their well-known BBQ place named Don Juan.

Here, I didn't pass the chance to drink their genuine "Kapeng Barako"...and it was good!!!  :)

We know we didn't maximize all the places to see in this town.

So, definitely, we'll have a Part 2 of this exploration.