Amontillado Beach and Dive Resort Negros

... watching dazzling sunsets over ice cold San Miguels and playing with local kids on the beach. We also went snorkelling over a wreck (again packed with hundreds of fish) and over stunning hard coral gardens. We spent 4 days here and it was a great way to end our ‘beach’ section of the trip. We were very sad to leave and it is a place we would love to go back to one day.

Unfortunately none of the beach resorts had ...

... We went to the hotel resteraunt. The hotel we are staying in is one of the best in Bayawan. Because the others are very ******, the restaurant in the hotel is the only best food place to eat. Dad had fish, Mum had squid and I and Michelle had pizza. Dad left for work.

Then later in the afternoon we watch TV.

Nothing much and didn't go out.

... haakemuja. Rannalla meiat aseteltiin istumaan, kaikki oli hienosti laitettu: poydat, ruuat, kaakut jne. Ja tietty koko yon grillattu kokonainen possu! (saatiin esimakua kun kuultiin sen raukka possun teurastus edellispaivana ja ma vannoin etten koske siihen lihaan...) Daisyn ja Peterin sukulaistytot ja pojat oli hienosti pukeutunu. Miehilla oli paikalliset juhlapaidat ja morsiusneitokoorilla upeet iltapuvut. Ja tietty itse juhlapari naytti hyvalta myos! Raffi ...

... plantation on Negros is sugar cane, the rum is dirt cheap here!). To wrap things up, when we left Sugar Beach, heading towards Dumaguete, we couldn't resist calling a guest house in La Carlota and asking about the festival... We leave the answer we got to your educated guessing... So far, we are a little disappointed with the Filipino festivals and we have high hopes for the coming Ati Atihan festival.

... the girls' rooms for a few years. Now she lives in the terrace at the back. In that part of the house, we also have some hamsters. Cleo, a black cat, feels he (there was a time when we thought he was a she) owns the house as much as we do. On the south side of the house, a Rufus hornbill shares a cage with Turk, a Celebes black ape (actually a short-tailed monkey, not an ape) and some rabbits. Inside their cage is a smaller cage ...

well arrive in the city of sipalay and waiting for a boat to come pick us, and take us to drif wood resort, so we had two night No swimming No walking around with rian fall and so many bite from mosqetos hahahhaha. so we hit the road again, this time heading south east to the city of dumaguete. so chow for now we talk soon bye byeeeeee

... we were done with this challenge and walking inside a hall with all kinds of amazing rock formations. A treasure, this cave, and nowhere was the floor of the cave muddy. Manuel, Josephine, Michelle, and I explored with two guides while Diotay remained with his team to take pictures. The going was easy, the sights great until the next big obstacle, the salmon swim up the entrance to the cavern leading to the waterful. First we had to wait for ...

These are pictures of a beautiful resort called Forest Camp in Valencia, Negros Oriental. We also went to a private collection of World War 2 memorabilia. The small private museum is proudly run by Porforio Cata-al, an 84 year old World War two veteran. The museum is full of all kinds of relics: personal effects, grenades, a gun removed from a crashed Japanese Zero fighter,three 1000 pound bombs and more.

... favorite thing is to hold them up closer to the basket so that they can shoot, make it, and then watch the big smiles on their faces! They keep running up to me saying "I want to dunk, I want to dunk". It's the cutest thing ever. Thursday was the graduation ceremony for the kids graduating kindergarten, junior high, and high school. It was so cute to see them all dressed up in their little graduation outfits, they even had ...

... this update we are having a hard time finding words to express how much we love this place. Nanana and Tatana (Filipino for Mom Billy & Dad Joe) came to the Philippines 18 years ago and felt called to open an orphanage here in this small town. The orphanage currently has 140 children, ranging in age 7 months to adult. They have an accredited school onsite as well. Each age group of 20 kids has a large room full of bunks for each child and a bathroom to be shared. Most of the ...