Philippines Travel Blogs - Page 2

We've been planning to trek Mt. Pinatubo for over a month. We've read some blogs about it, and all of them say positive things about the place. As for me, since I saw a feature on it through a TV program, it's always been on my list of local sites to visit. Finally, we've agreed upon a date when we…

For two straight years, I spent my holy thursday in Pampanga with my sister and friends. We left Manila at noon time of the Holy Thursday, and reached Pampanga about two hours. I think most people in Manila has left for a long break somewhere in the provinces. I initially planned to go somewhere bu…

Yeah, one year old on TB so what am I gonna today? Throw out a party? Buy myself a cake? No, maybe I'll just celebrate it at the next day's July 17 Global Manila Meet-up if I make it to the event? The July 17 meet-up is the closest TB event to July 16 so that could be my way of celebrating my first…

And we will continue to do so as the TB community continues to grow. I went to the TB meet-up yesterday with less expectations. While on the way to SM Megamall last night, I was just thinking that I would go there to help welcome the new TBs, and talk with the others I haven't …

7:30 PM - Non-sense meeting. I don't know how many times I rolled my eyes. I don't know how many time I resisted not to yawn. We are supposed to meet at Isabetlog's place before we would go to the bus station.8:00 PM -  I was running from one building to another, wrote a quick updates to my co…

I have been with travbuddy for 3 months already and since i read about TB meet-ups, i had been longing to join one and so finally when Josh (the_bloodsucker) posted about Philippines TravBuddies' Grand Meet-up last June 12, i was sooo excited. I looked up my schedule and was soo glad that i could f…

As a single Filipina traveling alone on the islands I was invariably asked the same questions.  Why was I traveling alone? To which I replied that no one could get the same length of vacation leave as I did.  But what I was really asked more often than not was one question.  Why wasn…

I woke up as Jear rustled about, checked the time and realized it was before 5:30 am!!!Out of  habit but with less enthusiasm as I stayed till midnight watching the closing episode of Temptation Island, I then invited myself to joining him walk around the beach. Barely gargling and without wa…

For those of you thinking that this is a Brokeback Mountain encounter, you're wrong. I didn't manage to get THAT up close and personal with Phil, not that I didn't want to... jeez I'm only kidding, guys. Unfortunately, he's got his eyes on BIGGER things, also known as whale sharks. Yes folks, Phil …

We made it to the the bus terminal 10 minutes before 7AM, just in time to catch the second trip to Baguio. It was truly hard to leave what I believe is one of Philippine’s most beautiful places but for sure, I will make my way here again in the future.

OK, let's see. If going back in time, it was at the end of August 2006, I come back to Beijing after visit Mongolia, and I got an email from my friend Sue, that I meet few months ago in China, asking me if I would like to come with her to the Philippines. Her boyfriend had to go back to S.A to work…

Whaaat?  Meet up again? Yes because some TBs from other countries are dropping by Manila before going on holiday trips to Boracay and Palawan; and an arrangement had been done for a meet and greet dinner at Trinoma in Quezon City, with drinks afterwards. Some Manila TBs didn't m…

We still had until 9 AM to explore Caramoan before going back to Naga. We had a breakfast of bicol express and blue marlin by the beach, took some more pictures of the islands and pictures of the village, wrapped up things then we checked out. There was a free shuttle service back to the port of Gu…

The last visitors to leave my place was at 3 AM already. I have not packed yet for this trip. My flight was at 1:55 PM for Cebu.By 8 AM, I was already up though still drowsy from not having enough sleep and still intoxicated with alcohol. I forced myself to grab enough items from my closet and forc…

Aaaah… where do I begin? Should I describe Coron as an Island Paradise waiting to be discovered [more], or do I say it's one of the finest beach islands there are in the region, or better yet the best beach weekend for me this year perhaps? I guess I already started and I would definitely …