Legaspi Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Wed. 4th November 2009

In the afternoon we went out with Dad's workmates to the Mayon Volcano in Legaspi. There was a chauffeur driving us around.

First we went Cagsaua ruin. We saw a more than three hundred year old building that before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. A lot of people were buried alive when Mayon volcano ...

The flight to Legazpi from Manila was so short - a mere 45 minutes. Compare that to taking the bus, which usually takes at least 11 hours. Legazpi is one of the developing cities in the Bicol Region, which constitutes a string of provinces south east of Manila. From Legazpi, we hired two tricycles to bring us to the breathtaking Mayon Volcano an...

Mt. Mayon is a perfect looking volcano. It is cone shaped and perpetually smoking, and looks really impressive on the horizon. When it erupts, it pumps out a flimsy black rock; a pumice stone that crumbles easily and its black sand is everywhere. It is effortless to carve. The Spanish made the best of it and used it for the bell towers and facad...

Running out of cash on hand, and no ATMs within a few hours' drive, I decided to move on from the Philippine Cordilera to Bicol. I rode on a cold, freakishly cold night bus to Manila. From the city's bus hub in Cubao, I caught another bus on to Naga, some 18 hours' drive from Banaue. I made sure to eat a bare minimum, and I practiced my 'Bus Zen...

We moved on from Donsol just before malnutrition set in to Legaspi. Yesterdays lunch, combined with a gallon of sea water had already wreaked havoc with Dean's guts. While we waited for the jeepney we sampled the goods of the local bakery. Dean tried a few of the cakes, much to the amusement of the girls who worked there, especially when he ask...