Ramos Island Bonsai Garden: 360 VR Island Hopping in Hundred Islands | June 2024 | insta360 X4

About this recording

This page preserves an original 360 Tour recording from Hundred Islands, captured on June 28, 2024. The 10:54 recording is part of the site's boats & water, beaches & islands, nature & trails archive.

The website version adds searchable place, date, route and collection context around the original YouTube upload so the recording can be explored alongside related videos instead of as an isolated clip.

June–July 2024 trip context

These recordings fall within a series of short Luzon trips made while family friends from Europe were visiting in June and July 2024. Rather than one long trip, Subic was used as a base for several one- to three-day mini-vacations, making it possible to explore different destinations without turning the visit into one continuous road trip.

The most important part of the period was spending time together and sharing places in the Philippines. Some destinations were familiar and could be shown to the visitors from local experience; Pangasinan and the Hundred Islands were new to Kris as well, so that part of the trip was a first-time experience for everyone traveling together.

Traffic delays were not a major concern during these outings because the group was traveling in vacation mode rather than trying to commute on a schedule. Videos recorded on the same date often belong to one continuous outing and are linked together on 360tour.tv where the recording data makes that relationship clear.

First-time exploration of Pangasinan

The June 2024 Pangasinan footage documents a first visit to the area for Kris. Island hopping around Hundred Islands was therefore not a repeat tour being filmed from memory; it was a new experience shared with visiting family friends, which is one reason the archive contains several connected arrivals, walks, boat segments and island stops from the same trip.

When several Hundred Islands videos share the same recording date, they are best viewed as parts of one outing rather than unrelated clips. The individual pages link those segments together so viewers can move from the wharf and boat ride to specific islands, bridges, gardens and shoreline walks.

First-hand Insta360 X4 experience

The X4 replaced an aging Insta360 ONE X2 as part of a normal two- to three-year gear upgrade cycle. The reasons were practical as well as technical: batteries age quickly in a hot climate, while the X4 brought larger sensors, higher resolution, Active HDR and more AI-assisted features.

Although 8K was tested, 5.7K Active HDR became the more useful everyday mode. In practice, the extra dynamic range and low-light improvement mattered more than repeatedly producing very large 8K files that YouTube would often deliver to viewers at a lower effective quality after processing.