Travel Vacations Destination
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you our journey our travel experiences and through our pictures walk you along this exotic
and exciting country of Philippines .
Our journey began on a motorbike, a Motoposh-SBK200cc, a
backpack with a Laptop, Cameras, and a carry bag with personal items.
We left Dipolog City for Dapitan port-terminal Zamboanga del Norte,
Monday 24 January 2011, here we boarded a ferry, 6 hours later we arrived in Dumaguete City
Today, we left Dumaguete
City , riding north along National Road Kabankalan
City
This morning we traveled back 11 kilometers to visit one of
the wonders of this country, a must see tourist destination, the Mag-asa Falls,
famous for their blue and green color waterfalls, Kabankalan City Negros
Occidental, after our visit here, we continued our journey north.
Late in the afternoon, we arrived at Bacolod
City port-terminal, Negros Occidental,
here we took a Ferry, 4 hours later we arrived at Panay
Island , Dumangas
City port-terminal, from here we rode
our Motorbike to Iloilo
City
This morning, we left Iloilo
City , a 6 hour trip riding north
passing through some breathtaking sceneries, to Caticlan, port-terminal, Aklan,
we visited the Tourist Information Centre, thanks for their courtesy, help and
support to make possible for us to visit Boracay Island
Today we met with a delegate from the tourist office, we
arrived in Boracay at Noe’s Cottage, here we stayed 3 days, a motorbike was
provided for us as vehicles are not allowed to be brought into the Island, we
visited the west side of Boracay Island, and the very peaceful and tranquil
corner of West Cove Resorts at Diniwid Beach.
Following our short stay in Boracay we returned back to
mainland, we left Caticlan City, port-terminal, crossing the Sultan Bank sea
for 6 and half hours, we arrived at Roxas port-terminal, Mindoro Island, late
in the afternoon the locals offered generous accommodation.
Today we left Roxas City Mindoro, we rode our bike north
along the east coast until we arrived at Calapan City Mindoro, we stopped here
and we visit our motorbike service center, as our bike needed some service
attention.
This morning we left Calapan for Puerto Galera, on our way,
we stopped to visit, Tamaraw Falls and the local tourist shops, later, we
continued riding and we arrived at Puerto Galera, but only small boats will carry
passengers not vehicles or motorbikes, so we turned back to Calapan City, where
we took a ferry, 3 hours later we arrived at Batangas, here we stopped for the
night.
Today we left Batangas City, heading for Manila, as we
approached the Tollway we were refused entrance, only Motorbikes 400cc engines
and about are allowed, so we modified our navigational plan, we took the
national Road instead, after riding for more than 4 hours through heavy traffic
finally we arrived in Manila.
Wednesday 9 February 2011, we began our return heading
south, along National Highway, we passed Calamba then at Santo Tomas we turned
left and continued riding along Pan-Philippines Highway, to San Pablo, Tiaong,
Candelaria, Sariaya, Pagbilao, Atimonan, Gumaca, Lopez, Calauag, Quezon, here
we stopped for the night, courtesy Villa Paraiso Hotel & Restaurant
Today we continued our jurney riding South passing through,
Tagkawayan, then we entered into Camarines Sur region, Del Gallego, we arrived
at Lagonoy, here we met the proprietor of the Lagonoy Hotel, who invited us for
the next morning to visit his other Hotel at Precentacion Camarines Sur.
Today we left Lagonoy
City and we headed back 10 kilometers,
to Sabang Port Camarines Sur, here we met the Hotel proprietor waiting for us at
the Fish Market, he had organized a small boat to carry us to the Island to visit his Aguirangan View Hotel at
precentacion.
After our visit to the Aguirangan View Hotel, a boat carried
us back to Sabang Port, we prepared our Motorbike and left, heading back to
Lagonoy City, then San Jose, Goa, after Tigao we turned left passing through,
Legazpi here we made a stop to visit the
majestic and misterios, Mount Mayon-Vocano, we continued riding, through heavy
rain and strong wins, arriving at
Sorsogon here we sotpped for the night, cortesy of Tentyard Hotel & Restaurant Sorsogon City.
Today we continued our trip to our last destination of this
Island, we arrived at Matnog City port-terminal, here we took a ferry to cross
over to the next Island, 2 hours later we arrived at Allen
City port-terminal, Northern Samar
Island
We left Allen City port-terminal after checking out, we
continued riding south, for two hours, again we encounter winds and heavy rain,
we arrived late in the evening to Calbayog City, here we staid, Courtesy La
Vista Pensionne.
This morning, we continued our trip heading south, we are
about to cross the famous San Juanico Bridge, a few minutes later we arrived in
Tacloban City Leyte, here we stopped from our trip, we visited the great shopping
malls we rested for the night, courtesy of ES PARK INN Tacloban City.
Monday 15 February 2011, this morning before we left
Tacloban City we visited the famous, General Douglas MacArthur Park, Palo,
Leyte, Philippines, a national treasure of this City and a must see historic
tourist destination.
As we continue our journey we are crossing through the
mountainous region of Guindaugon, famous for their occasional massive
landslides, here we reached the end of the island, at Liloan City
We left Liloan City port-terminal on a ferry for our next
destination, 4 hour later, we arrived at Lipata City
Today we will be riding our last and final trip of our
jurney, a 400 kilometres with two stops, we departed from Gingoog
City at 11am, we rode through,
Balingasg, Jasaan, Tagoloan, Cagayan de Oro, Opol ,
El Salvador , first stop, Iligan City
we continued riding and we arrived at Mukas Ferry Terminal,
we a boarded a ferry crossing over to Ozamis City Ferry Terminal, from here we
continued riding passing through Dapitan City and last, back to where our
jurney began Dipolog City Zamboanga del Norte, Mindanao, arriving, Thursday 17
February 2011, 7pm.
