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Kadayawan 2008 Festival Schedule

ericd001 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:18:45 +0000

The Kadayawan sa Davao organizers have already released this years schedule of the Kadaywan Festival 2008. Kadayawan is known as the biggest festival in the Mindanao region. The highlights include the Indak Indak sa Kadalanan or the streetdancing Cmpetition and the Floral Float Parade Contest.

Kadayawan 2008 Official Schedule

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Bacolod City Masskara Festival 2008 Schedule of activities

ericd001 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:28:55 +0000

The Bacolod City Masskara Festival 2008 Schedule is out! And because this years Bacolod Charter Day falls on a Sunday, everything has changed. This year we will get to see street dancing competitions on a weekday. This is because October 19 is Bacolod’s day and as such the day is only reserved for civil military parade, no street dancing even if it falls on a weekend. Check out the schedule below. More detailed activites will be added as soon as the full schedule is released by the Bacolod Masskara Organizing Team. The official music of Masskara 2008 is yet to be released.

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Masskara 2008 soon to hit the streets of Bacolod City

ericd001 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:59 +0000

In just a little less than three months time, the streets of Bacolod City will once again be decked with all the buntings and banners. Loud music and colourful costumes are de rigeur. And everyone is expected to be in a party mode.

The Philippines’ most colorful festival will be taking centerstage as hundreds of dancers in colourful and heavily decorated costumes and smiling masks dance to the loud music during the annual Maskara Festival 2008.

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Cebu Pacific Air slashes fares to a low Php699 All-In!

Abe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:55:31 +0000

Cebu Pacific Air offers ‘all-inclusive’ fares of Php699 for services from Manila to Luzon, Php999 for flights from Manila to Visayas, and Php1,499 for Manila to Mindanao services. Intra-Visayas and Mindanao flights goes as low as Php699 to Php999 only.

The system-wide seat sale today until July 15 and is good for travel from July 22 to October 15, 2008. More than half a million seats are allocated for this seat sale. The promo is non-refundable.

Reservation hotline numbers are (632) 7020888 or (6332) 2308888.

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Tacloban Leyte Sangyaw Festival 2008 list of winners

ericd001 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:22:04 +0000

The newly-revived Sangyaw Festival of Tacloban City is fnally over and I’m now back here in Manila. The results are in, but I honestly doubt the scorecards. I am not sure if it’s just me or the other also noted something, too. This year’s Sangyaw Festival Champion is Tribu Kabatok of Tacloban City.

Trivu Kabatok, Tacloban City

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19 festivals confirm participation in today’s Tacloban Pinta

ericd001 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:14:46 +0000

The office of the provincial Tourism office of Leyte has confirmed that this year’s Pintados Kasadyaan Festival 2008 will feature 19 festivals from the towns of Leyte, Samar and Biliran.

In a phone call, a staff from the Office of the Provincial Tourism Office confirmed that the grand street dance will start at 10 in the morning today. She also revealed that the Pintados Kasadyaan Festival 2007 Champion Buyogan Festival of Abuyog Leyte will be this year’s last performer. Last year’s first runner-up and the Pintados Kasadyaan 2005 and 2006 Grand Champion Alikaraw Festival of Hilongos Leyte is set to make a grand comeback and try to snatch the title from Buyogan Festival of Abuyog. Alikaraw will be the fifth performer in today’s grand contest.

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Twin adventures in Coron Palawan at the Kayangan Lake and the Barracuda Lake

ericd001 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:06:19 +0000

The Kayangan Lake and the Barracuda Lake are just two of the spots we had when we recently went island hopping around the Island of Coron in Palawan Philippines.

When we were still on the planning stage, nobody ever mentioned that I need to actually climb a limestone cliff just to enjoy the beauty of Barracuda Lake, and hike a hill to take a dip in the brackish water of Kayangan Lake.

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A Thousand and One Adventures in Coron

ericd001 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:39:37 +0000

For three days and 2 nights, I explored the breathtaking Coron in the province of Palawan. The quiet town of Coron is part the Calamian Group of Islands or the Calamianes.

The Calamian Group of Islands is comprised of the Busuanga Island, where the town of Coron is located, the Coron Island, the former leper colony Culion Island, and several smaller islands.

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Cruising the River that Runs Through It: Pasig River Ferry Cruise

habagatcentral — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:14:41 +0000

Pasig River has so much importance in the history of Manila. It was the EDSA during the pre-colonial era, a main water thoroughfare used by our ancestors for trade and travel. It has also become an advantage as a natural harbour for ships. The Spaniards came and constructed the walled city and several pueblos along the river. But just after World War II, as roads plough the streets, the river’s importance declined and was notorious to be “the largest poso negro in Metro Manila.”

Now the efforts have paved the way for its improvement, one of them is the revival of the Pasig River ferry system, which is part of the ways that the government can alleviate transportation woes in the metro. Equiped with air-conditioned catamarans and modern terminals, ferries ply from Pasig City to Intramuros in Manila in an hour less the traffic…

From Guadalupe, Makati to Intramuros, Manila, it will cost you PhP45 for regular fare, P20 for students. You don’t need to worry about traffic, the river’s stench. Instead, just sit back and relax and enjoy the cruise and the river scenery. You may even go out at the bow to breathe fresh air (and most of the time I took the ferry, the obnoxious stench is not available). Go out and take pictures of the surroundings but as you approach Pureza and Pandacan, security people would request you to get inside. Unfortunatelty, hanggang beinte pesos na lang ang Malacañang as the crew would not allow the people taking pictures of the Palace due to security reasons.

Pasig River may have been the reflection of the Philippine urban society. The soaring skyscrapers of Makati and Ortigas are contrasted by the slums beside the river. The oil depots that bring life to infrastructure to the city and a Palace that is the seat of power of the Republic. Unseen Manila can be seen here, if you want to reminisce the old days when Bapor Tabo of El Fili once cruised the waters of this historic river. The river that brought life to Manila.

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Yoki’s Treasure: Antique Hunting at Indang, Cavite

Abe — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:17:20 +0000

Yoki’s Treasure is a private collection of old Asian artifacts, antiques and garden hidden somewhere in Indang, Cavite. Yoki, the owner of the warehouse that serves as a museum, even had a 30-feet statue of Buddha shipped into the place several years ago.

The place is private property but Yoki allows school children to visit the place for educational tours. A minimal Php10 entrance fee is charged to visitors.

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The place is huge with an open warehouse covering hundreds, maybe thousands, of antiques and other collections brought in from Indonesia, China and other south Asian countries. The centerpiece of the collection is a huge 30-foot Buddha statue.

The place also grows dozens of flowering plants and vegetables. They have several varieties of lettuce which they grow and supply restaurants and marketplaces within Cavite, Balay Indang being one of them.

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