If you're going to visit Cebu, of course you have to take home their famous dried danggit as pasalubong. usually comes in different variants - they have the boneless danggit, which costs more than the regular ones. You can also choose between salted, and unsalted. In our case we got the boneless salted ones. Where to buy If you want to get these pasalubong at a reasonable price, it's best to go to Taboan Market in Cebu. There are lots of dried sea foods sellers in this area, you can haggl
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Coming to Cebu, one of the food / resto we wanted to check out was Casa Verde, somewhere near the capitol area. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find it there. Luckily though, we find another branch of this restaurant at Ayala mall instead. Supposedly, the original branch is spanish-inspired but the one in Ayala mall had an American-inspired ambiance. There were lots of American pop-culture decorations inside the restaurant, and a few other miniature and toys. [caption id="" align="ali
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After a day of staying at Seaview Pension, Jeff and I decided to transfer to a hotel in the city, closer to the malls and other spots are. We asked a taxi driver on his recommendation for a good, cheap hotel to stay in the city. He brought us to Parklane hotel, which is not quite cheap at all, but fortunately for us, they had a promo rate the day we came, and our actual hotel expense became P2800 from it's regular 4k price. The hotel is just walking distance from Ayala mall, and a few
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After our city tour at Cebu, it was now time to grab some dinner at CnT's restaurant, home of Cebu's famous lechon (roasted pig). How to go there From SM Cebu, exit at Mcdo,  accross the street is where you'll find CnT's restaurant. What to see Cebu's lechon was dubbed as the 'best pig in the world' by international chef Anthony Bourdain. We definitely had to add CnT's lechon as one of the must-try food we have to taste when we get to Cebu. From what I've heard, you dont need a sauce
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Go Seat-Seeing! Explore this summer with Cebu Pacific's Indonesia and Cebu-Clark Seat Sales! Jakarta seats now 40% less and P499 for Cebu-Clark flights For the ‘Go Lite’ seat sale fare of only P2,499, you can travel to Jakarta, the dynamic capital city of the Republic of Indonesia. Visit its many traditional bargain shopping places like Tanah Abang and Pasar Rawa. Jakarta is also the gateway to the beach paradise, Bali. The special P2,499 seat sale is available now until March 19, 2
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Yey! Kathangisip.com is now on it's third theme. :) I was previously using the cuikai theme from wordpress, and now I've decided to built me my own theme for the site. I've added new functionalities that are specific to my travel site. Here are the hightlights of the new theme. First off, we have a brand new header design, which is a sort-of-collage of all the pictures I've taken from our travels. 47" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="footer"][/caption] If you clicked on the 'B
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On February 28, 2010. Second day of our visit to the Panagbenga festival. Jeff and I were able to catch the float parade on the streets. The event started at 8 am, but by 9, the good spots were already taken, while some people started getting on parked cars, and vans so they can get a peek of the parade. We eventually found a good elevated spot, and thanks to Jeff's 20x zoom camera, we we're able to identify whoever was on the floats, which included celebrities like Jenny Miller, Karylle
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After several visits to Baguio. This year's Panagbenga Festival would be my first ever experience of the event. It's a month long activity that started last February 1 and will continue until March 7. There are special events daily for the duration of the festival, but me, my boyfriend and three other friends went there for the float parade and street dance. Instead of watching the street performance from the streets, we went straight to Baguio athletic bowl, where the street dancers
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