A 20-minute motorboat ride from the shoreline of Anini-y town proper could bring you to such enchanted virgin paradise - The Nogas Island. Located in the Province of Antique, Philippines, Nogas Island is an uninhabited government naval reservation and a marine sanctuary.

The word "Nogas" did not come from the well-known phrase "no gas" - the absence of gas, as what the word suggests or what others have linked it to the stories of stranded tourists on the island due to the shortage of gas on their chartered motorboat. Its name rooted from a legend transferred from one generation to another.
According to the local legend, Nogas is a young and handsome man, former slave and a farmer’s son who fell in love with a beautiful girl named Anini-y daughter of the Malayan chieftain. Likely, it was a forbidden love affair, for Nogas is a descendant of the uripons, or slaves while Anini-y belongs to the maharlikas, the royalty which also led them to a tragic end.

Nogas was killed and his body was hurled into the vast open sea - nowhere to be found. Until one day, an island across the town surfaced and was named after him. To her distress, Anini-y died in anguish of losing the love of her life - tormented and longing. It was said the her remains were buried in the rocky seashore directly facing the island that was named after her lover. On her burial site appeared a  small volcano and a hot spring. It was believed that the hot water coming from the spring represents Anini-y's tears while the volcano is her heart, still beating for her one tru love - Nogas.

The folklore still continues until today. The locals believed that like the mystical character in the legend, the lovers will never meet again just like the two islands separated by the vast sea.

The fragrance of the Fragipani is such a calming scent that goes so well with the sea breeze that gently caresses your skin.