Alive and blogging!: September 2012

Urlaub is a German word that means vacation. There are a lot of beautiful vacation spots in the Philippines and several medium of transportation to tour around. Boyfriend and I have tried almost all of them: plane, ship, boat, bus, car, jeepney, tricycle and single motorcycle and kalesa. Oh well except for bicycle, I hope someday we can.

By air, mostly we booked our tickets with Cebu Pacific because of special seat sales. I booked about six months before our flight and we got really affordable seats, as low as 900 pesos per person, one way. There were no delayed flights with Cebu Pacific, it's was okay. I have tried Air Asia with Mama and was impressed as they were very prompt and we even arrived 30 minutes earlier to our destination. Currently, they are in Diosdado Macapagal Airport in Pampanga, I just wish they will have Air Asia in Ninoy Aquino Airport soon.

It's not allowed to take a photo upon landing but I coaxed him to take one anyway. This is the first Urlaub we had together and if my memory is right, this was taken in Puerto Princesa airport in Palawan.

We took a Supercat from Cebu to Bohol, it's pretty fast. However, when we went back to Bohol, we tried a different ferry called Oceanjet and it's super slow. The Ferry came late hence we were not able to catch our flight. Lesson learned: just take the Supercat next time.

This was the boat trip inside the famous Underground River in Palawan, it lasted for three hours and the tourguide was German who's been living there for 17 years. He speaks Tagalog to locals there, how cool is that.

Someday we'll go fishing and boat sailing for real.

That's the Kalesa in Manila, it's a horse drawn carriage.

If you look like a foreign person, just be extra careful. The kotchero will initially say the ride is only 50 pesos but after the trip he will ask for Php 2,050 or something ridiculously higher than that. It's a true story.