The Batangas long brown sand beach are popular among local and foreign tourist alike. It’s clear waters ideal for water sports such as swimming, boating, yachting, fishing and skin diving. Along the shoreline are several summer cottages. Excursions are offered by local boatmen to resort island, an uninhabited isle off the coast. Batangas tourist can also experience a floating bamboo picnic huts anchored out over the reef, which is a good base for snorkeling and partying.

Matabungkay is touted as the finest beach around Manila. The package of having a beautiful sunset, white beach, and the provincial atmosphere made Matabungkay a drive-away beach destination for tourists coming from Manila. The area has little to offer other than swimming and watching the sunset but good enough for an inexpensive trip. Unlike other beaches, Matabungkay offers reasonable options for low-budget vacationers. Families who are unable to afford costly restaurants bring their barbeque sets and cook their food the way they want at the beach or at their rented open cottages. Others spend their day barbecuing on the shaded raft floating several meters off the shore. These floating sheds are rented out by villagers which they remark a purely Matabungkay way of picnicking. For upscale tourists, they can choose from luxurious resorts located along the right strip of the beach.

After a relaxing get away from Laguna, you can stop by at highway store and buy your love one’s pasalubong …. Buko Pie, it used to be one of my childhood’s guilty pleasures.

Colette’s, based in San Pablo City in the province of Laguna, they franchise their buko pie, so you can see them everywhere in the highway.

While the first buko pie master was D’Original Buko Pie which still sells the best buko pie, but you have to go at Los Baños in Laguna to buy it. There are rumors that Letty’s Buko Pie (SM Outlet) recipe is the same with them.

However, Collete’s was the first to experiment with various versions of buko pie. They introduced macapuno pie (made from a special strain of coconut that is sticky and thick) and ube-macapuno pie (a combination of macapuno and purple yam), mango pie, pineapple pie and among others. They also have espasol, bibikang cassava and pastillas de leche.

Discover the magic of the Philippines’ 3rd region, this amazing region compose of historical and cultural province. Only an hour by ferry boat across the bay from Manila. Though not a traditional tourist destination until recently, Bataan is now proving to be a tourist haven boasting a multitude of exciting places to visit and interesting things to do.

The province has much to offer – a rich culture and history, the beauty of unspoiled beaches, plus the warm hospitality of its people that is truly Filipino.

The Bataan Peninsula is a rocky extension of the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. It separates Manila Bay from the South China Sea. The peninsula features Mount Natib (1,253 m) in the north and the Mariveles Mountains in the south, which includes Mount Samat, the location of the historical marker of the Bataan Death March.

For all the convenience of Makati’s newest and most extensive shopping malls offering a wide variety of departments stores, boutiques, restaurants, bars, specially shops, and cinemas.

Whether you’re visiting Manila for business or pleasure, you will discover why the Shangri-La has emerged as Manila’s preferred hotel for the discriminating traveller and the focal point of the city’s commercial and social life.

I felt lucky to experienced one of the hotel 699 spacious and beautiful room, the right side area of Makati’s famous Ayala Avenues and Makati Avenue, from me was the most awesome view of Makati Shangrila.

Yahoo! Travel just announced The World’s Most Popular Beaches of 2007 is BORACAY.

Boracay is a tropical island located south of Manila and 2km off the northwest tip of the island of Panay in the Western Visayas, specifically the province of Aklan. It is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations. The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak, and is under the administrative control of the Philippine Tourism Authority.

You can find White Beach on the west side and Bulabog Beach in the east side of the island. White Beach and Bulabog Beach is Boracay’s two primary tourism beaches. The island also has several other beaches.

White Beach is the main tourism beach. It is a bit over four kilometers long and is lined with resorts, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants, and other tourism-related businesses. In the central portion, for about two kilometers, there is a footpath known as the Beachfront Path separating the beach itself from the establishments located along it. North and south of the Beachfront Path, beachfront establishments do literally front along the beach itself. Several roads and paths connect the Beachfront Path with Boracay’s Main Road, a vehicular road that runs the length of the island. At the extreme northern end of White Beach, a footpath runs around the headland and connects White Beach with Diniwid Beach.

Things to Do and see in Boracay…

Walking along the cobble-stoned streets of Ilocos Sur will bring you back to the old forgotten days of the past, with its ancestral and period houses still intact and well-preserved heritage sites. A living museum of a spirited past, it has its own share of historical and cultural attractions. A visit to the national landmarks, national museum and heritage museums will give you a taste of the Ilocos Region’s myriad of culture and history.

People and Livelihood

Ask Manong to describe the people from this land and they will describe themselves as loving, industrious people. Ilokanos are engaged in farming and food crop production. They produce rice, corn, vegetables, root crops and fruits. (note: apol lagay mo kung anong fruit) This region also serves as one of the main source of the tobacco industry. They also produce cotton and tiger grass. Cottage industries include loom weaving, furniture making, jewelry making, ceramics and blacksmithing. Food processing has also become a major source of livelihood such as production of their famous delicacies, namely, pinakbet, Ilokano sausage (longganisa vigan), bagnet, kornik, banggoong and empenada vigan. These delicacies have become famous all over the Philippines.

Davao City wherein the highest peak (10,311 feet) in the Philippines is located – Mt. Apo, where only the brave dare climb. The City of Davao is known for it boasting natural beauty and resources. The Asiaweek ranked Davao City among the 20 most livable cities in Asia, and the number one as the most livable city in the country.

Davao is a typhoon-free zone. Its international airport and seaport is one of the busiest cargo hubs in the southern Philippines. With a dynamic, able support from the local government and harmonious synergy of a multi-cultural and multi-lingual peoples from different indigenous tribes, communities, migrant settlers and a large expatriate community, make this cosmopolitan city conducive for business, investments and tourism. With the most number of hotels and hotel rooms in the island, the city also held hundreds of exhibit, trade, and convention.

As a physical region, the Cordillera is a row of great mountain ranges occupying half of Northern Luzon. Its rugged mountainous backbone contains many peaks exceeding 2,000 meters in height, with rolling hills and stretches of river valleys along its flanks. Baguio City, the famous Sagada, the second highest mountain in Philippines Mt. Pulag, Abra’s inhabitants of Ilocano and Tingguian tribes while the Apayao among the earliest areas penetrated by the Spaniards was few of the famous places in the Corderillera.

The Ifugao’s Tribes

A big bulk of the Cordillera population is composed of closely-related indigenous peoples. Collectively, our peoples are popularly known as Igorot. Often we are also grouped into a number of ethnic or ethno-linguistic identities, such as Apayao or Isneg, Tinggian, Kalinga, Bontoc, Kankanaey, Ibaloy, Ifugao, and Bago.

Metropolitan Manila in wikang Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila or the National Capital Region (NCR) in wikang Filipino: Pambansang Punong Rehiyon is the greater metropolitan area of the city of Manila, the national capital and largest city in the Philippines. Its residential population of almost 16millions (2008 estimate) makes it the nineteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world and the largest in Southeast Asia.

Metro Manila is one of the three defined metropolitan areas in the Philippines, the other being Metro Cebu and Metro Davao. There really is no better place in the country for shopping than Manila. Malls are conveniently clustered together for ease of access. A good place to start is the SM Mall of Asia - Galleria, Megamall and Shangri La - Trinoma and SM North Edsa cluster. This group of malls is readily accessible via the MRT. Flea market stalls crowd the congested streets of Baclaran - Sta. Cruz and Quaipo - Divisoria that all accessible via LRT1 where all the bargain-hunters jostle and haggle for the best buy in fabric, ready-to-wear clothing, shoes and slippers, houseware and home decor items and fresh produce.