Bohol Countryside and Panglao Tour in a Day!

This is just a quick recap of our 3days 2nights stay at Bohol. I will make a separate post on all the places we’ve been, the entrance fees on some tourist destinations in bohol and a review about Whites and Greens Beach Resort soon.

We spent our first day at the resort since we arrived at lunch time. My husband and daughter enjoyed the beach while I face my laptop in our cottage chatting with friends at facebook and prepare myself physically for the countryside tour the next day. On day 2, we started early at 8am and went straight to the Blood Compact Shrine, then met the smallest primate in the world the Tarsiers, walked hand and hand at the Hanging Bridge, enjoyed the cold breeze of winds at the Manmade Forest and learned the difference of mariposa and butterflies at the Butterfly Sanctuary and then head to the famous Chocolate Hills!

We had our buffet lunch and enjoyed the cruise at Loboc River, saw the huge 14 year old Python right after and then head at the two oldest Churches in Bohol, the Baclayon Church and Dauis Church. We also dropped by at the 4 biggest Ostritch Place before going to Hinagdanan Cave and Bohol Bee farm, where we had a taste of their malunggay ice cream.

We went back to the resort by 5pm and swim for almost an hour. It was a very tiring getaway but we had so much FUN! Bohol really rocks our world!

Day 2 of Grand Vacay: Subic

Nancy told me to bring along my sister and her kids to Subic for our one day trip to Ocean Adventure and Zoobic Safari. It was a blast at Ocean Adventure, we arrived at the place by 10am in time for the sea lion mini show. Watched the walk on the wild side show, had lunch then head to the Dolphin show. We had so much fun watching the dolphins, i think that's the highlight of our Ocean Adventure trip.

The group at the entrance of Ocean Adventure

While watching the Sea Lion Show

Look at their faces...

so amazed at the dolphin show ^_^

We were done at 130pm at Ocean Adventure and head to Zoobic safari. We had a visit to their zoo's (oh my there were a lot of them animals i cannot recall now since Yena has been acting up already because it was sooo hot)

They were not scared posing in front of the snakes (while nancy kat and i were screaming already, lol) The kids had their dolphin stuff toys are souvenir from Ocean Adventure courtesy of Mommy Umma ^_^

last shot at zoobic safari, we had some pictures at the train when we fed the tiger BUT i haven't scanned it yet, sowee.

Since it was really hot that day, we cut short our trip to Zoobic Safari to 3pm only. We missed the 5 more must-see places but we think we're done. There is still next time. Atleast now i know you can't have enough time to visit the two beautiful places in one day.

Will be posting the Acuatico pictures from Day 3 to 5 soon. Are you excited? ^_^

Back to Reality

I am back to work – back to reality of working so all ends meet, LOL. I wish everyday is an all expense paid vacation.

Let me laugh first for that childish wish, heheh. For now, I shall flood you with all the pictures on our recent getaway. The pictures are already sorted daily. So expect a post of day 1 to day 6 plus lots of pictures of food, water and smiles. I wish to sum it up on one post but it will be very long, it might make you sleepy like my Coron Trip in the past, lol. I am still thinking if I should post a picture of me wearing my violet bikini, for sure you won’t dare me to do that coz even if you do I won’t – for the love of heavens don’t wish for that one! LOL

But what I am really thankful about is meeting in person a friend so dear to me. From the bottom of my heart Nancy dear and if you are reading this right now, thank you so much! How can I thank heaven for having her as a friend? She gave me a lot already without asking for return, oh well she said she will come yearly for our getaway but next year it will be kat and I’s turn so I shall start saving now or try my luck on sports bets. I won my first ever contest and brought home my daughter’s Portable DVD on that famous KP Contest so I shall try my luck on sports betting to get extra cash on another getaway next year or every year.

My door is open for tips and tricks to earn while betting on sports, I have been so head over heels on blogging and the perks of it, and I am more than willing to try everything just to earn some more! And if posting my bikini picture here will earn me some bucks, I will! LOL Of course I am kidding.

Day 3 at Coron

For the two readers who are following my Coron stories, here's the tear-jerking final piece! I know you have been wanting me to post my coron experience daily but i have been scheduling my posts and i am taking blogging slowly. So i am updating my blog every two days, forgive me please. I cannot handle another pressure on my blog. :)

So this was our last breakfast at Krystal Lodge. After filling up our stomach at past 7, we all hurried to pack all our things. Our bangkero will fetch us at 8am sharp and will send us to airport. Travel time from Coron to Busuanga takes more than an hour. Our flight back to manila was scheduled at 1040am.
So upon arriving at the airport before 10am, we started taking pictures one last time. That's my daughter posing.. We were all getting ready to bid goodbye to the magnificent place that welcomed us (without a choice!) for three wonderful days..
Anyways, our energy level was so high it can reach the moon until we learned that our flight back to manila was rescheduled at 355pm. We have all praises to Zest Air until that very moment. We could have roamed the town proper or just stayed at our lodge longer if we have known that our flight was rescheduled!

What's left for us to do was to watch two movies while killing the time, bringing my laptop nancy has its purpose actually! And since we will be taking lunch in between and without any choice left we ate at the nearby canteen near the airport. OMG, i can almost hear myself talking to my soul crying out loud: why on earth everything is expensive in Coron?! One cup of rice is worth Php20.00!
After lunch, while some of the girls are watching movie and my husband and daughter were quite contented playing 'horsie' I busied myself capturing Coron airport on the remaining hours of our stay. It wasn't easy to wait almost six long hours at the airport.. That was unbearable.. oh am just exaggerating!! :)
But i have to congratulate myself for not engaging into a stand-up fight between the Zest Air people. It's just a matter of control actually, and it's hard! Maybe i'd like to ask them for a refund of our very expensive lunch or another trip back to Coron to compensate the six hours BUT i kept my cool and am glad i did! :)
So finally we're back in Manila and all aglow! Our Coron getaway is only the start of our travel stories! We will be going to Camarines Sur or Camiguin next year! (Calling Katrina, plan quickly please)

How about you? Join us! The more the merrier.. Taralets! Let's travel Pinas! Now na.. :)

Day 2 at Coron

After trekking Mt Tapias’ 724 steps and dipping into Mt Maquinit’s 40 degrees Celsius hot spring we braced ourselves for the island hopping for our Day 2 at Coron.

So this was us getting ready to feast our eyes for what’s in store for the day.. (Please click the pictures to enlarge, you won't regret seeing the background view or US! LOL)
Our first stop was at the Atwayan Beach, where we had almost half of our 1000+ pictures. Forgetting that it was only first stop of the 7 wonderful place we were about to see. We practiced our snorkeling at this white sand beach while yena was busy running after all the fishes she sees..
After our lunch of big crabs and grilled fish at Atwayan beach off we went to the famous World War II Ship Wreck for our most awaited snorkeling moment.. Oh boy, we feast our eyes to all the wonders of the sea, fishes of different colors, sizes and shapes, corals of wonderful beauty and whole lot more!
We also went to 91 Beach but had no picture since we were all busy with swimming and playing at that another white sand beach.. Our next stop was at Twin Lagoons. We wished we had underwater camera here.. As we have to pass a little cave to get to the other lagoon. We only had this picture instead..
I saw the almost perfect rock formation under the water of Kayangan Lake. It has the most expensive entrance fee of P200 each but the price was worth it coz you have a lot of chance to capture all the photos you can only see on magazine. The place was really oozing with perfect beauty. But you have to trek another 200 steps up.. :) No pain, no gain.
We had our last snorkeling at Siete Pecados as our last stop for our island hopping. There are a lot of bigger fishes in there, feeding them and swimming with them is something I would love to do over and over again. The photo below was with our bangkero/tour guide Kuya Anthony. IF you are planning of going to coron, please contact him. He is the best bangkero ever! Hahah. Seriously, he is nice. This is his number 0909 6147578 :)
I wish I can go back to coron anytime I want to. The place is really IT! Heavenly, magical, and everything of beauty that I can only have in my dreams.. I will definitely go back! Will you come with me?! Taralets go! :)

Also see the Beauty of Coron Palawan here.

Day 1 at Coron

Ola! I don’t know what to say and I don’t know where to start. Our Palawan getaway has more than one thousand pictures in my laptop nancy! Memories captured by 3 cameras of ten people having the great time at that heavenly place called Coron. I have to unleash all the stories, as ghie’s sister Katrina has been calling me like twice today just to start BLOGGING about it!

So before I receive another call from her, I have to share what happened to that day we literally pulled to make happen :) Please promise to not fall to sleep while browsing, there will be a whole lot of pictures.. so braze yourselves :)

At the check in counter at Domestic Airport.. (Look at our eyes, aren't we fiery excited? LOL)
Flying in an airplane for the very first time for me and my 21 months old toddler Yena.
Kissing the ground of Busuanga Airport at 1040AM :)
Oh here's our sundo/bangkero, I highly recommend our bangkero Kuya Anthony for those who would like to stay at Coron. He is nice and very accomodating even to us who are deep to the bone thrifty :)
It is almost an hour drive from Busuanga Airport to Coron. We stopped by at one picturesque view ala new zealand with these countless cows for a postcard background :)
Krystal Lodge was our home for three days and two nights! This is another place i highly recommend if i will go back to Coron.. The place is good for those low maintenance traveller like me. LOL
At 4pm we started our trek to Mt Tapias.. The dare is to went up that 724 steps, confronting the big cross and seeing the breath taking view of the island. This was us less than ten steps to the cross..
Oh, we are half way there! Yahooo..
Finally reaching the top..
That most awaited posing with the cross at Mt Tapias..
Our last stop was the 40 degrees celcius hotspring at Mt Maquinit.. The girls posing before dipping into the warm water..
My little family enjoying the hot water :)
We went home tired and all the more excited for the next day.. See you on our Day 2! Whew.

Thoughts before the Getaway

I should not be reporting to work today. Husband has been telling me to just rest at home as I am not really feeling well since yesterday. But I insist, I have to work today and meet the deadlines before our trip tomorrow. Now no matter how much sore my body feels, my throat is killing me and my skin and head are stinging and aching so hard I am here at work typing this away.

I deposited the total donation of $679.60 to Daniel’s account yesterday morning. Clarissa replied in the afternoon saying Daniel was confined at Philippine General Hospital, his protime is low and he might need blood transfusion if his situation gets worst.

My reason for coming over to work today is not only to do my pending reports but also to blog about daniel. Now I pray not only for a good weather tomorrow for our flight to Palawan but also on Daniel’s speedy recovery. I know God answers prayers, and our group prayer for Daniel is and will always be answered.

Now, if it will not be too much to ask, please save a minute of your time to pray for Daniel every day. Thank you so much and have a great weekend ahead!

And Kat has been asking me to look for some waterproof digital camera. We need that on our snorkeling activity on Sunday. I found the best deals with those awesome gadgets plus a Newegg coupon code to get it at a discounted price. I should be sharing the news to her right now and I know she will be thrilled.