After several attempts to catch the hot air balloon fiesta at Subic. I finally got the info for the event this 2010. The event is celebrating it's 15th year at the AFP grounds in Clark Freeport, Pampanga. There will be award ceremonies, and different attractions such as kite flying, paragliding, skydiving and of course the hot air balloons itself. There is an entrance fee to the event, which is P150 per person, and if you want to ride the balloon (which I'm thinking of doing), the fee
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Here is our actual itinerary in Bohol, accomplished last August 20 to Aug 22 '09.  This was yet another boyfriend-girlfriend trip so I was kind of expecting it to be a bit pricey, but, I was relieved to find out that other people who had been there has spend more than us, and there were like 5 of them :) Bohol is an expensive place to visit anyways, so I feel like our itinerary here can be justified. Aside from the essential tour expenses, I also included tips, donations and food trips t
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Here are the things to do in Bohol, based on our actual itinerary. The following list is in order of how our trip went for the three day tour. :D DAY 1 1. See the blood compact site rch [Tagbilaran, Bohol] This over 400 years old church was beaten by San Agustin as the oldest church in the country. 3. See the world's largest python in captivity [Tagbilaran, Bohol] At only 12 years of age, 'Prony' the giant python weights over 300 kilos and growing. 4. Stroll at the Loboc Bridge and
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After having lunch at the Loboc river cruise, our habal driver then took us to our next destination, the Bee Farm in Panglao. How to go there From Tagbilaran, we rode a habal-habal (motor) to get to the Bee farm in Panglao. Alternatively, you can rent vans or cars, situated in ferry and airport terminals. What to See You have to coordinate with the Bee farm crew from the reception if you want a 'Farm Tour' of the area. When we got there, there was a large group of student touring the Bee
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After our kaput plan to go to E.A.T. Danao, our plan B was to visit the places in Bohol we weren't able to see on Day 1 of our trip. How to go there Jeff and I's plan was to commute going to Loboc river cruise. Kuya Allan (caretaker of the resort were in) already gave us instructions on how to get there. We need to grab a habal-habal (motor) first to get to the jeepney station where we can get a ride going to the Loboc river cruise. We grabbed a motor outside our resort, and asked the
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Cebu pacific offers 'Go Lite' P999 seat sale to all 32 Domestic destinations this December, this includes flights from : Cebu - Butuan Cebu - Surigao Manila - Kalibo Manila - Naga Manila - San Jose Manila - Laoag Davao - Zamboanga Davao - Iloilo Davao - Cagayan de Oro The P999 Go lite seats are also available for the following international flights Manila - Taipei Manila - Kota Kinabalu Clark - Hong Kong Clark - Singapore Clark - Bangkok P1499 seat sale
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How to go there From Panglao Island, we hired a boat to tour us around Bohol’s nearby Island. Virgin Island, was one of the places we got on our deal. What to see After having lunch at Balicasag Island, we went to our last island to visit in Bohol - Virgin Island. While on the boat, the wandering Juan contest was still on our mind, specially Jeff, we took some shots for the contest. While others were ridiculously bad, Jeff had this cool idea to take pictures of him in my glasses. We e
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How to go there From Panglao Island, we rented a boat to tour us around Bohol’s nearby Island. Balicasag Island, was one of our deals with him. What to Eat After snorkeling at Balicasag, we stopped at about past 10, just in time to grab some lunch at the island. A local resident there has an eatery outside her house, and offers fresh-catch fish for food. We picked a seat, and have a looked at what's on the menu. Instead of a menu you can read, the menu of the eatery can be seen on
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Here is a video by Jeff catching 3 big fish passing by him at the snorkel site in Balicasag, Bohol.
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Philippine Airlines (PAL) celebrates the arrival of their new Boeing 777 plane with a seat sale! Boeing 777 is the largest twinjet plane in the world, and PAL will be using this plane  to fly internationally to Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo and Hongkong. The seat sale features all-in Domestic flights for P777, traveling on the following routes (to and from Manila): Laoag Legaspi Puerto Princesa Cebu Bacolod iloilo Kalibo Tagbilaran Tacloban Dumaguete Roxas
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