Cebu – Cebu is known as the place where Ferdinand Maggellan which is the first Spanish sailors who set foot in the Philippines in 1521. Maggellan also killed in Cebu by local residents named Lapu-Lapu. This Maggellan landing at the same time as the initial milestone of the Spanish colony in the Philippines, so many old buildings such as churches and relics of the Spanish fort. So incomplete that it did not tour the old city during a visit to Cebu. Icons historical tour of the most prominent in Cebu is the Cross Maggellan (Maggellan’s Cross), Fort San Pedro, and the Church of Santo Nino. The cross is a cross Maggellan first planted as a symbol of the beginning Maggellan spread of Catholic Christianity in the Philippines. According to the story, the Philippines believed that the first cross was carried miracles, so the wood is often plucked out to be a drug. Thus, the cross on display today is a replica of the cross, because the original cross to stay small pieces of wood that is now planted in the replica. A few steps from the Cross Church of St. Maggellan standing Nino (Basilica Minore del Sto Nino) established another sailor from Spain Miguel López de Legazpi in 1565. Inside the church there is a wooden puppet Santo Nino (the infant Jesus) which is a gift from King Maggellan to Humabonon wife, Queen Juana, who became a Catholic. Catholic visitors from all over the Philippines to come to this church to pray before the statue of Santo Nino. Every Sunday, the Catholic Church also came to attend mass held in the large churchyard. Miguel López de Legazpi also founded Fort San Pedro in the same year, 1565. Triangle-shaped fort was the first and oldest fortress in the Philippines which was built as a protection area of the pirate attacks that often came. Initially, Fort San Pedro was built with wood, but then the fire was built with the hard rock. The fort was also used as a defense by the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation in World War II. This castle was originally located beach lane, even before the surf beach is said to touch the walls of the fort. Unfortunately, coastal areas around the fort reclaimed and built as part of the harbor. Overlooking the beach so that should be visible from the castle building was blocked. To get to these locations, from Cebu airport, travelers can use a Jeepney, Philippines special transportation such angkot or can also use a taxi. There are also other transportation modes such as tricycles and motorized rickshaws. Rickshaws and motor rickshaws in the Philippines carrying passengers in addition to the driver. Rate Jeepney 6 pesos for the first 5 miles and about 1.5 pesos to the next mile. While 35 pesos taxi fares when open door and an additional 2 pesos per kilometer. Highway in Cebu quite empty, because the vehicle is still quite a bit. Meanwhile, traffic lights are rarely found at a crossroads.

During the day, a trip can be made with small long-tail boat,
taxi boat (slower), and with group tour. Mostly, they take
tourists into Bangkok Noi and other canals where you can
see typical and a completely different life-style along the
canals. These scenes are the old way of living in the past
that people depended mostly upon river and canals transportation. Now, the front access is the modern roads,
but canals are still used a lot. Typical old houses, temples, shops, and the way people buy and sell things can still
be seen, especially when you visit the “Floating Market”,
such as Bangsai Floating Market, and Taling Chan.

Chiangmai-doi.at  8,500 feet above sea level, Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand. This is the best location for the sights and atmosphere offers visitors forests, bird life and waterfalls.

During the winter peak of Doi Inthanon is usually cool and dry, but in the last few years the air temperature fell lower and lower. Now you have a very rare opportunity to experience temperatures below freezing. This area is famous for fog when the temperature begins to decline and the image of a misty mountain beauty and the iconic look.

Chiangmai-doi4Dua large pagoda was built for the King and Queen of Thailand is located at the top of the mountain. Doi Inthanon forest has been designated as National Park. The trip to the mountain is often combined with a trip to Mae Klang waterfall, Wachiratan and Siriphum. With more than 400 species of birds, Doi Inthanon is the main objective to observe the birds.

Details: Various sites in and around Doi Inthanon provide varying ticket prices. However, a visit to Wat Phra Mahatat Naphamethanidon would cost 200 Baht and this gives free access to most of the other sites that are available here.

How to get there: Given the scale of the mountain of Doi Inthanon, join one of the many tour companies in town may provide the best path for you. Alternatively, take the bus to Chom Thong destination from Chiang Mai Gate (south city) and then take a bus to the destination Mae Klang waterfall, and then another bus to the mountain.

Donald Duck Bay Phuket
donaldduck1Ini location is well known and much photographed parts of the island. “Donald Duck Beach” located in “Similan Island 8″. Gulf became a very popular stopping point for visitors on their trip. Not only the most exciting diving in this area, but at night the animals mollusks, gastropod, crustaceans come out for dinner and a show night diving into a very interesting activity.
Sea life offers a variety of crabs and octopus and their derivatives and a large number of fish species. This location also provides the presence of a very common turtle seen here.

Lucy’s Reef Phuket
Located on the east Racha Yai, Coral Lucy or Lucy’s Reef is naturally protected from the wind and this is the location of a fairly shallow dive to depths slightly more than 25 meters. Therefore, this location is ideal for beginner divers. Reef in the underwater world offers hard and soft corals of different species of fish. Leopard sharks can also be seen at this location at any time.

Racha Islands – The tip of the North At Phuket
rachanoi1Salah one the best dive sites in Phuket Racha Islands, the northern end of Racha Noi offers underwater scenes dramatic.
Although this location is a relatively shallow dive (a dive start from 5 meters to a depth of about 35 meters), the current is very strong which means that only the most expert divers and can dive experience here.
This area is famous for big fish and coral reefs are incredibly beautiful. The islands are located 35 kilometers south Phuket and you need to rent a boat to get here.

Racha Noi Phuket
Racha Noi is uninhabited islands featuring coral reefs, rock hard and huge granite. This location has the best visibility in the Phuket area and offers the opportunity to see manta rays and whales.
Southern part of the island both for divers with a little more experience. Marine life including a large group of tuna and stingrays resting on the rock was in the midst of a rock formation that is very good. Racha Noi has some of the richest reefs in the Phuket area.

fantaseaFantasea Reef Phuket
Starting from the depth of 6 meters and down to depths of 40 meters, the mass of large rocks with fish swimming around a large soft corals to be typical of this location. Marine life exhibit themselves here, including Lion fish, eels and angel fish or angelfish.
Fantasea Reef became one of the best dive sites but only for expert divers only – is due to very strong currents make the potential risks and dangerous enough for the less experienced diver.

East of Eden Phuket
This is one of the best dive sites in the country. Depths ranging from 3 meters to 36 meters down to reveal the mass of fish and coral sand along the hamparannya. This site also offers a series of interesting caves, some offer a path to swim. Strong water currents make this location an ambitious target divers obsession, which can only be done by mid-level divers.

staghornStaghorn Reef Phuket
Located on the East coast of Racha Yai, Staghorn Coral Reef Staghorn or offers exceptional diving for all levels of diving and snorkeling sites are amazing. This location is very good especially for beginners.
As you can imagine from its name, there are many types of Staghorn coral on the seabed. Rock formations create underwater scenes to be dramatic. Dive begins at a depth of 5 meters and came down to a depth of about 25 meters.
Staghorn Reef location approximately 25 kilometers south of Phuket and chartering a boat is the best route to the location.

Bungalow Bay in Phuket
A location where the environmental conditions so calm and rarely change, Bungalow Bay offers a suitable dive site for beginner divers and those who do snorkeling or snorkellers. This location has some good rock on the seabed with boulders and sand.
Beginning at a depth of about 5 meters, the location down to a maximum depth of 30 meters. Location approximately 25 kilometers south Phuket, to achieve the best access is by boat or charter boat.

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Cebu – Philippines If tercetus name, for which Indonesia may direct thought is Manila, which is similar Jakarta. But, not interesting for a tourist destination. Try, liriklah Cebu. Your impression, not just Manila Philippines. As Miss Philiphine during the Miss Universe pageant last year, by 7107 the island when the sea receded and the island in 7100 when tide, the Philippines offers a variety of alternative tourism attracted both tourism history, culture, natural attractions and complete enough water. Island of Cebu and Bohol Island is located south of Manila. “People Indonesia are rare here, far more tourists from Europe, Japan and Korea, even some time ago a group of Russian tourists had come straight over here to rent a plane,” said Myra, one of the local tour guide who accompanied the journalists as a group a visit to Cebu last weekend. This trip to Cebu as part of product launches ABN Amro, said earlier this week. To get to Cebu, it takes approximately 4 hours flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Manila and continued with domestic flights for about an hour or can be via ferry from Manila to Cebu which takes 19-22 hours. Drowsiness that attack because the early morning flight from Jakarta to Manila direct flight disappeared from Manila to Cebu. From the plane window, see the blue expanse of the island and the sea turns. Shades of the sea presents a dazzling blue for coastal islands each region are generally decorated with extensive coral reefs are shallow blue-brown. Some look like a road connecting inter scattered. “If it falls, people usually use to cross the shallow reef between islands, most only stay a few meters that require people to swim,” said Myra. Outskirts of the shallow coral reefs were then lined with dark blue deep ocean. Some of the Philippine Sea region is deep enough that it is often crossed by a whale. Landscape land area was no less miraculous. When the plane passed over the island of Bohol, seen thousands of green hills like skup known ice cream named after the hill brown (chocolate hills), because the color changed to brown during the dry season. That we were riding the plane finally landed at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport around noon. Actually, the airport is located on Mactan Island, the island was connected to Cebu Island by two bridges of Mactan-Mandaue Bridge, 864 meters long and B Marcelo Fernan Bridge, also known as the Mactan-Mandaue Bridge II along 882 meters. The boats with medium size can pass under the bridge so that the view from the top one is a beautiful bridge at night time with lights from other bridges and light vessels passing.

When it comes to size, the tomb of China in general consuming more land than the non-China. How not? aja follow-up treasure in the tomb. The graves of the descendants of China rich in Manila reportedly recorded in “Ripley’s Believe it or Not”. This is what makes me so curious. LP mentioned in the book, this location close to the LRT station (train overpass) Abad Santos. But in the map attached at the point LRT station wagon R is the nearest Papa. While officials at the LRT ticket counter I asked told me that I should get off at the station Bluementritt. Information that makes confused and misleading, I finally just follow the instructions in the car and I fell in R Papa.

Apparently no one, because a few hundred yards after leaving the station, I saw the 2nd entrance gate is locked in a state funeral. While the wall 3 meters high wall surrounding the cemetery complex. I try to surround the tomb complex from the outside to look for another door in the hope that there are open, but no avail.

As an illustration, the majority of the tomb of China who is here is more similar to houses in elite residential complex. There is shaped Europe, China, to Art Deco. Some are equipped with air conditioning, furniture, electronics, bedroom, and even a post office box on the fence “home”. But make no mistake, in the “House” it is grave. The family owners of the luxury building it is for the pilgrimage. Ahhh … .. unfortunately, until now remained a ‘mystery’ because I can only see it from the LRT station.

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep probably the most important tourist site for visitors who come to Chiang Mai, Chiangmai-watphra2dan course the most easily seen. Wat Phra Doi Suthep Borommathat located on the side of Doi Suthep about 3.000 meters above sea level. This location could be there among the most beautiful sights you might see. It was built by King Gue-Na in 1383, this temple which puts a big Chedi made from copper plates (twenty-two feet high) covered in gold and containing holy Relic of the Buddha.

Besides being a major tourist destination, the temple is very important because the followers of the Buddhist Pilgrimage sites visited throughout the year. This temple had four rooms and one worship gold Buddha statue can be found in the temple. To be able to come here you can up a ladder (about 300 steps) or use the cable car.

Details: The cost for the cable car ride to the temple is 40 Baht. No entrance fee but a donation of 20 Baht, you are Advised to give. Chiangmai-watphra3Kuil open every day between 07.00-17.00 o’clock and this is a popular tourist destination so that you can estimate the crowd throughout the day.

How to get there: Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is 15 kilometers from Chiang Mai. Perhaps the easiest way to go here is to take one of many types Songtaew buses that regularly leave the city to the temple from the corner market and Chotana Road Manneenopparat Road (outside Gate Changpuak) at a cost of 60 baht (35 baht to the temple and 25 baht for the return fare). A number of tour packages Departing from the city at a cost of about 600 to 1000 Baht.

pattaya1Pattaya Beach at the center of a half circle forming the crescent coastline of Pattaya with Nakula in North Beach and Jomtien Beach in the South. This is what makes Pattaya is famous for its nightlife. This is the hedonist paradise, Pattaya beach littered with a number of go-go bars and flooded with people working in the sex industry; both men and women (some even indeterminate sex!) And various nationalities, including Russia and the former countries Block East.

pattaya4Meskipun is part of the most complete Pattaya accommodation facilities, atmosphere, night life here can get rid of his family tourism. In recent years there has been impetus to make Pattaya more attractive for family tourism by prohibiting some activities that are less “healthy”. This program has been more widespread, but the area still maintain Pattaya go-go bars, discotheques and night clubs. On the afternoon of the Pattaya area is somewhat different – sea water flooded with jet-skiing, water skiing, boat motors and the sky filled with parasailing!. Do not forget, Pattaya is also a scuba diving center.

Although the dive site, Pattaya may not be able to match the benefits of other places in Thailand, Pattaya is quite convenient location accessible from Bangkok and for those who have limited time but want to have a diving experience may be able to take advantage of one of the many diving courses scattered in the city of Pattaya and diving equipment stores are also quite cheap. Ko Lan, Ko Sak, Ko Krok, Ko Man Wichai, and Ko Rin is a diving location within easy reach of Pattaya. The location of a shipwreck frequented by divers who are seasoned.

pattaya2Pantai Pattaya itself has charm, but the number of hawkers who paced the Pattaya beach makes a difficult place to just sit around or relax because you will be offered all sorts of goods ranging from food to high-tech goods in ways that disturb the order. There is no doubt that Pattaya beach is a nice goal, but one thing that needs to dipertimbangan before visiting. Pattaya has appeal, but maybe it does not appeal to you or your condition.

How to get there: Pattaya Beach is in Songtaew route to get there and cost 20 Baht from any point in Pattaya.

Manila, as the metropolis not much different with Jakarta. Pollution, traffic, homeless, crime and other social problems is the mirror of a major city in the developing world in general. One time I took a bus across town, on the bus a little girl handing out a packet of sweets to each passenger, I think this is a free snacks for passengers, but the sweets wrapped in paper stuck to the contents of which appeal to passengers to buy sweets to help defray living the little girl who dropped out of school.
Every passing pengerah offices of labor, I always see long queues of people who took a job application folder, hoping to be accepted overseas employment. Understandably, the Philippines also compete with our country in terms of labor export.

Several times to read reviews from the Internet about the journey of the backpackers, many mention the legendary crime in the city of Manila. Perhaps because of the high crime rate, level guards minimarket had a gun in the waist. But every place is different, certainly interesting to watch.

Koh Samui in Surat Thani province which has an area of 247 square kilometers is the main tourist island in Surat Thani. Located 258 nautical miles south Bangkok, and approximately 84 kilometers east of the provincial capital, Koh Samui has the widest measure of 21 kilometers, and the longest 25 miles. kohsamui-hatchaweng1Memiliki ring road along the coast 51 kilometers and most of the surrounding islands, Koh Samui has many beaches and beautiful bay, and almost literally called the island of coconuts and the hills are forested.

Line of Samui’s best beaches are in northern and eastern peninsula, the most popular are Hat Chaweng and Hat Lamai, where generally attractive accommodation can be found uniquely. Other beaches include Hat Choeng Mon, Hat Mae Nam in the north and Hat Na Thon, the main island on the seafront where there are settlements along with shops, restaurants and tour agencies are concentrated.

At the South end of Lamai Bay are rock formations called Hin Ta Hin Yai. A road connects the three waterfalls, called Namtok Hin Lat, Namtok Lat Wanon, and Namtok Na Muang, which kohsamuiphra_yaiberada from the West to the South. The best time to visit this waterfall is during the rainy season. Elephant ride was interesting activities in the Na Muang waterfall.

There are some Buddhist monuments and temples on Koh Samui: Phra Yai, a large Buddha statue sits in the island Fan; Phrathat Hin Ngu, a stupa containing relics of Buddha. There is also Chedi Laem So, a golden stupa on the western coast, and the house where lies Khunaram Wat Luang Pho Daeng bodies that do not decompose.

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