tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89313678720568478462011-08-11T23:15:59.864+08:00Pr and Ella would want to share their travel stories and experiences. Hopefully we could advise would be travelers what to do and what not to do...where to go and whats the best deals in town.pr.ellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11596835394063214966noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931367872056847846.post-14201166133303296352009-02-18T11:30:00.010+08:002009-02-24T22:06:35.028+08:00

For our 2nd day we opted for a half-day city tour in which we would visit: the Merlion Park, Jade factory, Chinese Temple, Singapore Botanical Garden and Little India. We departed from the Hotel around 8:30 am. The tour started with a drive around the Civic district and significant buildings: the Cricket club, The Parliament, The City Hall, Padang, and the Supreme Court. The first stop was

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Park Hotel Orchard is situated right at the heart of Singapores most fashionable shopping district Orchard Road.  Its location is perfect for both the business traveler and the shopaholic as its located right at the corner of Orchard Road.                                                          Paragon Shopping CenterRight across the street is an upscale mall The Paragon. Its a haven for

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The Philippine Travel Agencies Association in cooperation with the Department of Tourism presents the 16th Travel Tour Expo 2009 with the theme travel in style. This event will take place at SMX Convention Center SM Mall of Asia Pasay City on Feb 6-8 2009. The event features two new segments – lifestyle (which will cover travel accessories, health and wellness products and services, culinary

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The final stop for the Roxas City splash and dash trip was baybay beach which was roughly 2kms from the city center. Too bad i didnt have my tripod for longer exposure shots. Arrived right before sunset and went straight to our meeting although I managed to walk around for a while. The sounds of the crashing waves was definitely a nice and soothing experience. Too bad i was on a business trip!

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I was off to the seafood capital of the Philippines too bad it was work related as i had very limited time(roughly 2 hours) to explore...It was more of a splash and dash trip!Took a 5:30am flight and headed straight to the Roxas Presidents Inn. Its location is right at the heart of Roxas City. Its situated along Rizal Street corner Lopez Jaena St. The Main Plaza,  Roxas Avenue Bridge, Panay River

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List of 2009 Philippine Holidays, as declared by Proclamation 1699:A. Regular HolidaysMaundy Thursday- April 9Good Friday- April 10Araw ng Kagitingan- April 6( monday nearest to April 9)Labor Day- May 1 (Friday)Independence Day- June 12( Friday)National heroes Day - August 31( last Monday of August)Bonifacio Day- November 30 (Monday)Christmas Day- December 25 ( Friday)Rizal Day- December 30 (

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Stumbled upon a food find accidentally. One of our contractors brought a bright red box of kakanin at the office and i was so eager to check it out! Im not a big fan of cassava cakes but this one was different the flavor just exploded in your mouth. I asked where they bought it they said it came from Batangas. It was a Ralos Cassava Cake.I told Ella about this wonderful delight and she was so

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Just got our new Canon EOS 50D DSLR and road tested it yesterday at the Baywalk along Roxas Blvd. and SM Mall of Asia's Baywalk park. It was a huge leap in terms of functions and features from our good old trusty canon 300D rebel which we have been using since 2005. Cant wait to test it as Im scheduled to fly to Roxas City next week the seafood capital of the Philippines! Till then...  

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We have prepared a timeline of our EL Nido trip so you can have an idea on time spent per activity so you plan your vacation well. Included are activities/locations that we are interested in but we have not had the time during our stay. Also i have indicated which places i would visit again on our next trip. Definitely we would be coming back this year as we missed out on a lot of activities and

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DAY 3: SHIMIZU BEACHIt was our last day at El Nido so we decided to go to Shimizu beach instead of the other island and underground river the guide was suggesting. Ella is a little bit scared of underground caves and we have read a lot on the net about how beautiful Shimizu beach is and the abundant marine life. We requested a snorkeling guide for this trip as it was an uninhabited area and to

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8:00 AM had breakfast and converged for a banca ride to the Big Lagoon. It was low tide yesterday afternoon so we didnt have the chance to kayak to the lagoons.The entrance is very shallow and waters are crystal clearThe Big Lagoon is awesome the guide said they believe its a huge cave thousands of years back until the roof collapsed which is the the reason why there are awesome rock formations

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El Nido Palawan, stunning and unbelievable i couldnt believe my eyes when we first reached Bacuit Bay! Pristine beaches and magnificent limestone formations makes you feel that your right in Paradise. El Nido town and El Nido resorts are at Bacuit Bay but the latter has a couple of exclusive beaches for resort guests. You can take a plane to Puerto Princesa and its a 4 hour van ride and a ferry

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>8:00 AM Up and ready to watch the races. 5 races is scheduled today: Final of Formula BMW, GT, Formula 3, Pre-final and final of World Touring Car Championship( WTCC). I had some good seats reserved at Lisboa corner 2 months back but i hesitated as they had no online transaction form they asked for your credit card details, ended up purchasing available Reservoir stand tickets yesterday( located

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9:30 AM We woke up late due to all the Becks beer last night. Had to rush to the Tsim Tsa Tsui Ferry Terminal.10:30 PM What a bummer the taxi cab went for the Harbor Tunnel!!! Is he deliberately trying to bring us to the Hong Kong island terminal or he really didnt understand that we wanted to be dropped off at the Tsim Tsa Tsui Ferry terminal in Kowloon. We had no choice as we were already in

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9:00 AM We woke up late and rushing to get to Ocean Park as early as possible in order to avoid the long lines at the attractions and rides. Grabbed some sausage bread at a local bakery along the way. We took the MTR to Admiralty were the buses to the park are located.9:30 AM Just outside the MTR Admiralty station was the City bus station. Ticket prices are HKD 10.00 one way for Adults and HKD

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8:00 AM Schedule for today was to go around avenue of the stars to get some day time views of the harbor, go straight to Citygate outlets and meet Av( straight from the airport). Victoria Peak was the spot of choice for the evening.9:30 AM We had Delifrance again for breakfast as it was along the way going to Avenue of the stars. We discovered that the nearest route from our hotel located at

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7:40 am Arrived in Hong Kong rushing to head to City Gate outlet hoping to catch the early worm. We rode the S-1 bus to Citygate outlets cost us HKD3.00 and the trip was less than 7 mins. Citygate is right at the bus terminal and Tung Chung MTR station definitely you wont miss it.TRAVEL TIP: Please prepare exact change bus drivers do not have change. You pay with the octopus card or exact change

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 Finally!...Another vacation to relax( hmmm...) from all the stress. For this trip we avoided the package tours like the plague and decided to plan and book our own itenerary through the net.  We avoided the hassles of spending almost half a day picking up and ferrying tourists to their hotels, going to places you DO not want to go to, and limited or too much time at tourist spots. Since Hong

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