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Travel Blogs from Philippines, Philippines
Basic as it gets.
This is a top pick! Arriving in Puerto Princesa we didn't really know what we were doing or where we were going. We stopped off in a cafe to get away from the hustle and bustle that is the taxi area at the airport. After a drink we found out we needed to get to the bus ...
A weekend of Island hopping.
This is a top pick! When we arrived in El Nido we arranged to meet Hardy later for a drink and went to look for somewhere to stay. Whilst looking we walked into the pensioners parade, a celebration of old people! Very cool to see them all happy and to see people come out ...
Wreck Diving at its best.
This is a top pick! ... booked to Vietnam from Manila and we had our flights booked to Manila from Coron. So off we went. On the flight, we had inside knowledge of a game the air crew played (going on several flights in the Philippines) We managed to win a flask! How cool. ...
Manila, not a big thrilla'
This is a top pick! ... changed with the defeat of the Spanish was in who was doing the economic exploitation. For all intents and purposes, the Philippines became a de facto American colony and supported a number of US military bases. In 1941 when the Japanese declared war on ...
Sharks!!!
This is a top pick! We got into Cebu quite late, we had booked a place on some various website and when we got there it wasn't what it looked like on the site. Oh well only one night then off to a lovely Island that's said to be Boracay's baby brother. Next morning we had ...
Last hurrah in Asia
This is a top pick! ... 'd had a chance to take a train as well then we would have taken just about every form of non-animal transport in the Philippines! Despite the bit of an ordeal getting here, it was totally worth it; this place is absolutely gorgeous! Boracay has ...
Mountains Of Rice
This is a top pick! ... improvements (vs robbing the country blind like so many others). There's also an approaching election in the Philippines which has accelerated the building programs since sponsoring politicians get their name in lights (buying voters with their own ...
Typhoon, lahar slide, and the white people
This is a top pick! ... his characters fatalistically suffered natural, political, and social disasters, so too have the residents of San Isidro, Philippines, where I spent 6 weeks volunteering, learning, working, and living more intensely than ever before... The story.... ...
21 hrs of hard travel - My bum hurts and we stink
This is a top pick! So it was time to say farewell to the Philippines. The day began at 6am as the fan died we were just getting our bags on to our backs and leaving behind the hut that we had called home for the last week. We gave the key back and asked about ...
Bohol bum bags....they're the future
This is a top pick! We woke after a troubled and argumentative night regarding playing computer games whilst the Wizard is trying to sleep. Erica edit: I got a bit addicted to spider solitaire, but I had the sound off and had the screen turned away from him! Anyway, ...
Tropical Ice Skating
This is a top pick! Having seen most of the sites of Manila a couple of years ago, we are just planning on using the city as a hub to connect to parts of the country we hadn't yet seen. Unfortunately we've now dropped one of those destinations, Palawan, because apparently ...
Cliffhanger
This is a top pick! ... in confusion and started giggling. Elvis explained that these remote mountain people couldn't speak Tagalog, the native tongue of the Philippines, but in fact spoke English - the result of too many missionaries and not enough effort to maintain ...
Beer Breakfast, Salsa Shaker
This is a top pick! It was 5am. We had not slept for 24 hours and the airport was deserted except for a bell ringing electro-Santa, a bored hirsute man in a Russian hat, and ourselves. At times like this you become oblivious to reality. All conversations become ...
Happy Birthday Erica
This is a top pick! I woke up at 10am in a bamboo hut in the middle of the jungle in the Philippines on my 31st birthday, I would guess my most surreal birthday ever. I know I woke up last year in a tent on a beach in the Inner Hebrides next to a dog but I think that this ...
How to not be a sex tourist but feel like one.
This is a top pick! Well. It is I Vinny, and I'm back in Manly Australia once again. Which means I survived the Philippines with its sex tourism, murder, election issues and military action. And I LOVED it. Great place, great people, crap food. Well crap may be unfair. Bland ...
Chocolate droppings
This is a top pick! ... the 'VIP' part.... the only thing is people think they owned the place and talked all night, until Elle went and told them to button it up! The next morning we had a flight booked to Puerto Princesa on Palawan, off to the western parts of the Philippines. ...
A romantic dinner for one......
This is a top pick! We had made our minds up last night that we were all snorkeled out for the moment so we would hang up our fins, masks and snorkels and get down to the really fun stuff....Andrew's dissertation. It would be my job to proof read, edit and generally ...
Welcome to Paradise
This is a top pick! ... to get fewer and fewer and the views of the sea and beautiful fields started to come into view. This was more like the Philippines we were hoping for. The roads though were not in the best condition and our Rough Rider Driver likes his accelerator which ...
Village Kids
This is a top pick! ... and doors and saying "Americanos", it doesn't matter where you're actually from b/c apparently if you're white and in the Philippines, you're American! After saying bye to the English girls, I decide to wander around the village and end up chatting ...
Alona Beach - Panglao
This is a top pick! Brian and I took a ferry from Cebu to Tagbilaran on the next island, Bohol. We walked a bit and then hired a jeepney to take us to Alona Beach on Panglao Island. Its very nice, but if this is the high season then I'd hate to see the low season because ...
Welcome to the Philippines and planes with games
This is a top pick! ... smoke alarm. This had definitely not happened at Chez Tunstall. Oh and there are lots and lots of mozzies. Erica alert. Not a great first impression of the Philippines but we are looking forward to getting to the island of Malapascua ...
Magellans Island
This is a top pick! ... garden area; Basilica del Santo Nino and Cebu Cathedral, which the BSN houses the oldest religious relic in the Philippines brought here by Magellan in 1575; and Magellans Cross, which marks the location where missionaries first baptized Filipinos as ...
Manila Madness
This is a top pick! There's only one bus from Banaue to Manila and it leaves at 17:30 and arrives in Manila at 3:30 am! Who the hell decided that schedule? I can't even fathom why anyone would want to arrive in manila at 3:30 am - we decide that the vendors in Banaue ...
Finding inspiration in other places
This is a top pick! ... to design a world of bliss By Marge C. Enriquez Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 22:28:00 09/02/2008 MANILA, Philippines-Bliss Café in Baguio is an enclave for artists, spiritual seekers and health buffs who want organic vegetarian meals. ...
Just Passin' Thru
This is a top pick! ... night in Cebu City. Tomorrow we catch SuperFerry. There's a massive shopping mall close to where we're staying. Although the Philippines is very poor there is no shortage of shoppers in this mall that's probably as pleasant as any we have at home. ...
Just off Passwater Blvd
This is a top pick! Our first night in the Philippine, we stayed at a little hole in the wall of a rat's nest called the Townhouse. We needed a place to catch a few hours sleep as we had an early morning flight to Dumaguete, on the south coast of Negros. The Townhouse ...
You Tarzan me Jane....
This is a top pick! Waking as it got light at about 4:30am I now realise why I'm knackered all the time. It needs to be dark for me to sleep and these huts are just not designed to get dark. Also the noise of the fruit (about the size of an apple) dropping from the tree ...
James Pond: License to grill
This is a top pick! We woke at about 8.30am and I went to order Andrew a breakfast from the kitchen. We sat on the porch drinking tea and coffee and tucking in to garlic and onion rice, corned beef and a fried egg, it was even better than the day before. ...
A lovely lazy day
This is a top pick! ... what is best for the people here, she wants 'progress' not at any cost it has to be sustainable. Please visit the Philippines but make sure you're money goes to local people who need it and spread it around not to 5* resorts who limit the take ...