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Once again, Cebu Pacific has dropped its fares to a whooping 99 Pesos++ for all domestic destinations!
It’s your chance once again to pay homage to the Santo Niño in Cebu, go a have your photo taken with the Mayon volcano as your backdrop in Legazpi, or go binge on the freshest tuna in General [...]
Finally, after planning for a couple of times, I was finally able to visit Avilon Zoo in Rodriguez (formerly Montalban), Rizal. Avilon Zoo is a perfect educational place for children as well as their parents to learn and appreciate the beauty of nature’s flora and fauna.
Avilon Zoo is almost a 7.5 hectare property man-made [...]
The annual procession of images of The Virgin Mary is held every 1st Sunday of December in Intramuros.
These are not yams or sweet potatoes (kamote). These are yacon.
It can be eaten raw. Its crunchiness resembles that of sinkamas; however, Yacon is sweet with a slight tinge of a gingerly taste to it. And although sweet, it doesn’t affect one’s sugar level. No wonder it is popular among those with diabetes and [...]
The town of Angono in the province of Rizal will once again make us awe in wonder 6ith their giant effigies made of papier mache in its annual Higantes Festival. Higantes is a Spanish term meaning giants.
The town’s fiesta celebrated every November 22-23 in honor of its patron saint, Saint Clement (San Celemente).
During this [...]
A while back I was complaining about unscrupulous taxi drivers in the Davao Airport who would charge you an exorbitantly high fixed rate once you got in their cab. Then they were also in cahoots with the other taxi drivers there so that everybody was charging the same thing. Well that is a [...]
Bicol cuisine is known for its dishes cooked in gata or coconut cream. Anything cooked in coconut milk is known as ginataang. Squit or crabs cooked in coconut milk are my favourite dishes. The other key ingredient of Bicol cooking is the sili (hot chilli). There are many kind of sili, among them the tiny [...]
I was lucky enough to have travelled to cebu with a seasoned traveller. When we got our luggage from the arrival area we headed to the exit to get a taxi. The usual taxi companies were there asking us if we wanted a cab to get to our destination. My [...]
