Here are the list of things we did in our tour of Davao City's tourist spots: 1. Take a nature trip at Eden park Davao :) 2. View Davao from Jack's Ridge [Davao city] Part of the view from Jack's ridge is SM Davao. The restaurants and bars here are also the feature of this place. 3. Have a historical tour at Japanese Tunnel [Davao city] The tunnel used by the Japanese soldiers in WWII is now a commercialized hotel and restaurant. 4. Visit 'Pagasa' in the Philippine Eagle San
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How to go to Japanese Tunnel Japanese Tunnel is about 30 minutes from the town proper, but for our trip we hired a taxi driver to tour us in Davao. This tourist spot was one of our deals with him. What to See Japanese Tunnel was said to be the Japanese's hide out in Davao during the World War II. It has now been commercialized, turning the area into a tourist spot, and a hotel-restaurant. Entrance fee to the place is 50 pesos per person. We were allowed to take our taxi driver - Ruben
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How to go to Jack's Ridge We hired a taxi driver to tour us in the tourist spots of Davao for the whole day, this was one of our stops. What to see Jack's Ridge is located in Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao city, about 30 minutes away from the town proper. It is near the Shrine hills' station of the cross and church. It's famous among tourists that visit Davao because this is one of the few places that overlooks the rest of Davao city. In fact, SM mall can be viewed from here. There are al
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Here is a video of  our rafting in Davao river last year. The video features Xty almost falling out of our raft. Also, in this video are Dennis (our river guide), japanesecake, catnap, xty, and L. The person taking the video is Jimmy from the Davao's Wild water rafting .
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Soda Swimming pool was one of the things we were looking forward to in our trip to Camiguin, the name itself is very intriguing, a soda-tasting swimming pool? Camiguin has lots of hot and cold springs, and we chose to go this one, out of the many springs in the area to save time. Plus the rumor that the water here tastes like soda, made us want to visit it more. We were anxious to get in and find out for ourselves the taste of this so-called Soda pool. Upon entering the place, you'd insta
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I didn't realize that kathangisip is now eight months today. I checked my email of when I got this site, and what do you know, today is her monthsary!!! Awww eight months and I'm still like at the bottom of every site ranks, haha. But I'm quite satisfied with what the site has become,though we're not as popular as most travel sites, what's important for us is we're able to present our travel experiences and provide all the possible information you'd probably need in your travels. :) So tha
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3D1Q.XOXO Kathangisip travel blog will never came to be if not for our tour group, and super friends: 3D1Q. A lame ass name we concucted for our little gang, after our very successful trip to Davao. This coming June 21st is the anniversary of our group. Kampay!!!! 3D1Q means Three Devs and 1 QA. We all work in the IT industry, and three of us in the group are all java developer: me(japanesecake), catnap(J), and L. And of course, we have the outcast QA analyst, Xty. haha. It was in Davao,
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(This is part 2, of Davao White Water rafting post. Link to part 1: Davao White water rafting) The Practice At the beginning of the actual rafting, we were tested on how well we listened to both Jimmy and Dennis' lecture. The first demo was defensive swimming. After that was how to pick up a team mate from the waters, using just your paddles. Next was how to bring your team mate back  up, on the raft, without making your raft capsize. :D And then , the actual rafting part comes...During
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White Water Rafting, was our last activity on our 4 Days, 3 nights tour in Davao. Prior to the trip, we have already reserved with Davao's WWR, and luckily for us, we were the only group to do the activity that day. :D How to go there Since this was our last day in Davao, we carried our stuff (including pasalubong), and took a taxi to take us to Davao Crocodile park where the white water rafting facility can be found. White water rafting in Davao Tuesday, we arrived at the Davao's white
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