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Travelling with family is so much fun.. enjoying the sand and the sea life with your love ones can be all worth it.. spending time in boracay is so much fun for me but then the worst is that the time when we went there i was sick but still i'm on the go for the beach fun.... you can do a lot a of things in boracay but expect that this is not an ordinary beach . For me everything seems to be so expensive , but u cna still find some cheaper ones if you have the patience to walk around just like me.... we spent at sunshine's place, which i don't recommend this to you who wanted to travel and stay in boracay... the owner of the pension house is a monster cos ... read more

The sun hesitantly shines through a thick blanket of clouds as acres and acres of sugarcane protrude from both sides of the highway. It has been three hours of an uneventful bus ride in search of a nice vantage point for a shot of the Mt. Kanlaon, and as unremarkable town structures gradually pave way for majestic views of fields and the mountain ranges at the horizon, there's the lingering sense that I'm headed deep into a rarely ventured territory. Situated between Cebu and Panay, the island of Negros has seen relatively fewer tourists than the Visayan heavyweights. Negros Occidental, west of the mountain range that splits the island into two provinces, particularly receives less visitors. Especially coming to Bacolod - the provincial capital - a few days after the Masskara Festival, there's an overriding thought ... read more

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For a considerably short span of time, we used to stay in a place rightfully called Sunny Hills. Looking back, in the eighties, the mansion was very modern and highly American. It was fortified on a hill that rose from the pavement, landscaped to appear like lush, green terraces. We were so high up on that lump of a hill that it felt like living all alone among ourselves. On the verandah, just outside the bedroom where we played chess on a concrete table, we saw houses below us spread out on the plain and down the slopes. Some were on top smaller hills. We overlooked narrow, vacant streets crossing and encompassing the entire section of the village. Once, I came chasing after my basketball from the mid-section of the house through the car park and ... read more

Sibuyan We would later understand that it was quite a unique thing to see Mount Guiting Guiting’s 2058-meter (6751 feet) peak. Clouds usually obliterate the view. But there was something special about that day. The waters were unusually choppy (2 - 3 meter / 6-9 feet swells), a flock of frolicking dolphins tracking the boat and then Guiting Guiting. A long concrete platform, which served as our dock, jutted out into the sea. No sooner had the boat pulled alongside it that scores of porters rushed aboard to bid for business. We inched down the stairwell and out into the brilliant sunshine of a Sibuyan midday. With more than 700 plant species, 130 bird species and numerous rare mammals and reptiles, Sibuyan was nature-lovers’ paradise. We settled in quickly, at a beachfront hotel, and took off ... read more