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The oldest among the rail transits in the metro, it was constructed in early 1980′s by the Marcos Administration to drastically reduce the travel time from Paranaque City to Caloocan City, passing through the heart of downtown Manila. The said line runs from Baclaran to Monumento. Light Railway Transit was inspired by the tramvias of [...]

Summer is fast approaching and hordes of foreigners and local tourists will start flocking to beaches. Top of the destination list is Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan. So SEAIR is rounding up a series of promos for this summer season. First up is the Buy 2 Take 10 Ticket Promo. If you buy 2 round-trip [...]

Cebu Pacific just launched a new low fare promo on flights in and around Asia. The seat sale starts at Php888, exclusive of VAT and surcharges.

Here are some tips for a great Panagbenga 2008 experience in Baguio! Update: Flower Festival photos 2009 – ka edong 1.) Know the schedules of the parades. There are two highlight parades at the Panagbenga. The first is the grand parade of street dancing where schools compete on best marching band and street dancing performance. [...]

Pictrure: Oslob Church (by Arnold Sancover)  Maybe out of boredom, there is this crazy idea that comes out. It is one of the few places that I’ve never been to in Cebu and I’m already a year here in this island paradise. I’m tired of hearing car honks and breathing smoke in the city streets. [...]

It was definitely my first boat ride in Cebu and my first time meeting some strangers that would become my ultimate barkada in the Queen City. A balikbayan forumer came home and promised a treat that the forumers based in Cebu would never forget. Island hopping from Mactan Island to Olango Island and back and [...]

One Saturday just last month, a supposed-to-be 2-hour drive to Batangas turned out to be one of the worst driving experience of my life. I live in a Quezon City apartment near UP and have a job in Eastwood, and every week I go home to Batangas and my family. There wasn’t much fuzz with that a year ago when SLEX was still not under “renovation,” but now, trying to go home at the same time of day as I did before makes me wish for the nth time I didn’t have to work in the city–but of course, I have to. So after that Saturday wherein I was caught up in traffic for 6 hours, I told myself something needs to be done and I just have to modify my travel habits to cope up with the current road situation. Now, after four weeks of experimentation, I might have just found my answers. For those people who has the same route(or at least parts of it) as I do and who wants to retain that pleasant driving experience they had right after learning how to drive and before discovering that the city is not the race track we imagine it to be: read on.

I’m experiencing problems with my life in Cebu during these times. At times like these, I just wanted to get out of everything, therefore I went home, to Iloilo. The sudden decision that I made affected the schedule of my whole week for I wanted to escape the urban jungle the soonest time possible, under [...]

With its inauguration last June 13, 2007, the old Mandurriao airport of Iloilo was finally decommissioned by the Air Transportation Office and moved to its new facility in the town of Cabatuan, some 20 kilometers away from the old airport. With the promise of economic growth that will bring upon this region, the new Iloilo [...]

Lakbayan is a nice little web app which lets you take a survey of the places you’ve been to in the Philippines. It then rates you for it. Here’s my travel scorecard: My Lakbayan grade is C+! How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan! Created by Eugene Villar. It then [...]