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La Caviteña in Dumaguete

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

La Caviteña’s restaurant is perfect for budget tourists looking for meals that you can share with your pals. Right in front of the restaurant is a big banner offering a meal for four called ‘Barkada Package’.

Loboc River Cruise in Bohol

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

One of the must-see places if you’re going on a vacation to Bohol is the Loboc river. The famous Loboc River Cruise takes tourists to a lunch buffet while cruising into the Loboc river on a floating raft pushed by a motorboat (banca).

Fresh seafood adventure awaits in Batanes

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Batanes will never be complete without the freshest seafoods. The province is known to be a good source of various seafoods, some of tem are even flown to as far as Manila. Lobsters, Coconut Crabs and and a wide assortment of fishes are readily available at the wet market.

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VidCast: Spending the Holy Week in Batangas

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

This is our first attempt at doing a travel video podcast or vidcast. All scenes were shot at Batangas during the recent Holy Week. Armed with a Nokia N95 and a Canon EOS D40, we spent 3 days and 2 nights at Nasugbu, Batangas visiting Terrazas de Punta Fuego, Pico de Loro in Hamilo [...]

Cultural Heritage, Farm, Health and Wellness Exposure Trips

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Visit the best kept secrets of Batangas, Laguna and Quezon:
Organized by the country’s oldest orchid and plant society, the exposure and wellness trip aims to treat the members as well as guest to one of Southern Luzon best kept secrets that few people knows.

Suroy-Suroy South Cebu (Dalaguete to Carcar edition)

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Dalaguete: Pueblo Antigo
As the music of the wind plays, passing by the scenic coastal road and lush vegetation of southern Cebu, we passed by the siloy (a black bird endemic to Cebu) town of Alcoy on our way to Dalaguete. The town known for being the Vegetable basket of Cebu and melodic way of speaking Sugbohanon (perhaps [...]

Bewitching Roxas City!

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It may be the notion of generally most of the Filipinos. Saying Capiz is generalizing to poltergeists and “aswangs” and more carnivores, no thanks to media who brought stereotyping to this laidback beauty in northern Panay. Roxas City, the capital of the northern Panay province of Capiz, its the main agro-industrial hub of the province. [...]

Viajeng Cucina Matua

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Youth Tourism Response – Philippines (YTRiP), with the help of Alquimista, Inc. and the Sleepy Traveler is organizing a food trip to Pampanga this July.
Dubbed Viajeng Cucina Matua (The Old Kitchen Tour), the food trip is slated this July 22, 2007.
The Kapampangan cuisine is highly regarded as one of the most delicious in [...]

A taste of Italy in Amici

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

So all the rumors are true.
I recently went to Amici di Don Bosco. It’s a trattoria located right inside the Don Bosco Technical School Compound in Makati City. Amici di Don Bosco is an Italian word for friends of Don Bosco. So what’s with Amici, anyway?

Penne in Cream Sauce with Smoked Salmon

Oh My Gulay! Art Gallery and Vegetarian Resto in Baguio

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

“Most people think the attraction is the food. Actually, it’s an art gallery that happens to serve vegetarian food. ” This is how gallery-owner Kidlat Tahimik explained to me what Oh My Gulay is all about.

Oh My Gulay is one attraction in Baguio that had eluded my attention for around 5 years now. I [...]