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Buying a cell phone
Buying a cell phone in Cebu The cell phone is the most important thing in a Filipino’s life even closer to the heart than karoake and lechon manok. One peso texts are a cheap form of communication and the Philippines is reputed to have the highest per capita texting population in the world. Walking around [...]
Magic Island Dive Resort
Magic Island Dive Resort Tongo Point Moalboal Magic Island is one of the 3 comfortable dive resorts on Tongo Point. I don’t have a lot to say about the place but all three resorts on this point are really nice. I asked to have a quick look around and took a few pictures, and also [...]
Weesam Express
Weesam Express Ormoc to Cebu The Supercat Fast Ferry and Weesam Express make the trip from Ormoc to Cebu. Supercat fare is around 750 pesos and Weesam charges 630 pesos for the same trip. They both clip right along but Supercat has food and stewardesses but you have to pay for the food if you [...]
Sampaguita Resort
Sampaquita Resort – Tongo Point Moalboal Sampaguita is an Italian diving resort on Tongo Point near Moalboal. You will see at least one turtle here because there is a stuffed one above the bar. General manager – Sergio Forti ph +63 32 4740066 fax +63 32 4740065 email sampaguita @ skynet.net www.siaholidays.it Sampaguita Resort
Turtle Bay Dive Resort
Turtle Bay Dive Resort – Tongo Point Moalboal This outstanding dive resort is on Tongo Point away from the crush of dive shops in Panqagsama. It’s sandwiched between two other fine resorts, the Magic Island and Sampaquita. Turtle Bay Dive caters to people that want more than a nipa hut and scuba diving. In fact [...]
Cebu Dental Clinic
Cebu Dental Clinic Flora Diorico General Dentistry – Orthodontics My tooth was giving me a great deal of aggravation so I decided to see an old friend Flora, a dentist on Manalili Street in Cebu City. There are scores of dental clinics in Cebu but she was recommended to me by a friend several years [...]
Kawasan Falls Cebu
Kawasan Falls Cebu Willy’s Place For a 16 peso Ceres Liner bus far you can get to Kawasan Falls southbound from Moalboal on the National Highway. This is a Filipino favorite because it is easy to get to and there is a small resort at the falls where you can rent tables for 150 to [...]
Dumanjug Cebu
Dumanjug Cebu Yu-Ann Beach Resort Dumanjug is a 12 peso multicab ride from the Moalboal market north bound on the national highway. A ferry goes across to Negros runs from here. Few foreigners go here because there are no dive shops or tourist resorts. Yu-Ann is a local resort where Filipinos go on the weekend [...]
Philippine python
Philippine python While having a beer at D Red Banana bar we heard a bit of a commotion outside. The local kids had killed a python of 2 1/2 meters or so that had been raiding their backyards of small animals. It was a beautiful snake but the kids had stomped its head and cut [...]
Surf exit when diving
Surf entry and exit when scuba diving There was a tropical depression in Cebu yesterday giving the sea a little life and making it more challenging for the divers. The patio at Cora’s was an ideal vantage point to watch different surf exit techniques used by the divers. One dive boat of divers unloaded beyond [...]
Climbing Mount Apo
General Santos
Growing Orchids
Judy's Resto Bar
Logging with Motorcycles
Mount Mayon
Balabac Island
Biri Island
Calbiga Cave
Capul Island
Mangrove Swamp Palawan
Mikes's Resort