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Mindanao Island in the Philippines is home to the third largest city in the country, Davao. It is also the home to the Moro Liberation Front and other less well-known terrorist groups which seem to have made Mindanao famous for. At least they have managed to bring the world's attention to this forgotten place, which is more than I can say for the Philippine Tourist Authority or media guys in Manila.
Mindanao suffers from bad publicity to the extent that even most people in Manila believe the constant media hype about the kidnappings and bombs. Let me tell you that I have been to Mindanao more than a few times now, travelling to at least four different cities and not encountered so much as a hold up at the supermarket queue let alone being in danger of being blown up.
Most of Mindanao is quite safe to visit, with the possible ...
Advantages: Perfect white sandy beaches, good variety of accommodation, restaurants and bars Disadvantages: A bit over-developed in places
Boracay is known as The Philippines' most beautiful island and regularly features in top ten lists for 'The best beaches in the world'. Being so highly rated, I decided I had to visit it in June 2008, to decide for myself if it really is that good.
Getting there
In order to get to Boracay, you have to fly from Manila to either Caticlan or Kalibo. There are many flights every day to both airports with various different airlines. The cheapest offers seem to be with Asian Spirit and Cebu Pacific. I flew with Asian Spirit and the short 1 hour flight was fine with them.
From Caticlan, you take one of the many small boats across to Boracay and there is a new jetty on the south of the island now to make things easier (before this was built you had to climb out of the boats directly on to the beaches). If you fly to Kalibo then you ...
Advantages: YOU WILL FEEL RELAX WITH THE NATURE, SEE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Disadvantages: TRAVELLING SO LONG...
THE CITY OF SMILE as we commonly call Bacolod City. I wonder why and how did they call it that way. I have traveled to many places in Visayas part of Philippines and i found out that Bacolod was my favorite. From Cebu, you have many ways to get there. I suggest you go by land because along the way you get to see beautiful things.you will pass by Toledo & SAn CArlos City. along the ways you will see nice and pleasing environment.When arrived in Bacolod, the people are not smiling all the time but they are happy persons. You can go to PENSION BACOLOD.most popular pension house, if your on budget or in CHECK IN if you like more comfortable. SAfety First. No problem because the people are very friendly and accomodating but you always have to be careful.. Next would be the food. I recommend SISIG. the best! you can try their native food. Its ...
