It’s 3am and I think I’m not sleeping anymore because I’d be leaving the house in an hour for my 6:35am flight to Cebu. This is the first leg of the Cebu Pacific Backpacking Challenge where Sago was invited to participate.
Cebu Pacific (CEB) has organized a five-day, four-city backpacking journey across the Philippines where five [...]
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“Cebu Pacific (CEB) salutes the 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, with a system-wide seat sale as low as P15.” (one-way)
That’s like 99% off for local travel from October 1 to November 30, 2010! The seat sale starts today until June 30, 2010 only,
With the recent downpour of heavy rains in selected areas of the metro, hot afternoons and humid nights seemed to have ended.
I believe that the Philippine summer season of March to May has ended. In fact the government weather agency is already expecting two typhoons within the month of June.
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had an island discovery a few weeks ago with some blogger friends. Right after the 2-day stay at Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort and the Visita Iglesia south Cebu tour, we headed towards Sumilon Bluewater Resort in Sumilon Island.island
I thought I was just heading to another one of those usual resorts in the Philippines. To my [...]
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This Saturday, April 10, would be my first solo domestic trip - and I’m going to Iloilo; for the first time as well.
Ironically, this is not my first trip alone. My first solo trip was to a foreign land called Singapore back in 2008.
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I recently joined a simulation tour of a Filipino Catholic’s tradition in Cebu specially relevant for the upcoming Holy Week - the ‘Visita Iglesia‘.
Spanish for ‘Church Visit‘, the Visita Iglesia involves visiting seven churches during Holy Week’s Holy Thursday which is based on an ancient practice which most probably originated from Rome where pilgrims used [...]
As promised in an earlier post, Sago’s summer this year’s started in Cebu. It’s our second time to fly with PAL and it’s the big plane with 3 column sets that seats more than a hundrcozyed people.
We saw a friendly banner at Cebu’s Mactan International Airport right after a warm welcome from the airport transfer [...]
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Philippine tourism performed better this year in terms of tourist volume with Camarines Sur more than doubling its visitors.
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Despite the numerous local destinations Sago has been to around the Philippines, Sago and I haven’t been to Boracay. It was a trivia unknown to many. And in a few days, that will be history.
A visit to the Lopez Museum last week brought to light a collection of old and rare Philippine Maps. It was revealing discovery to see centuries-old maps of the Philippine islands, how they developed, and evolved.
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