Philippine Travel Notes

This was another fun-flight-day. Meaning? Ah, another circuitous route from Point A to Point B. Yey! Much like how I flew into this new Bohol-Panglao International Airport (IATA Airport Code is still TAG ), my flight-out may look complicated. But we already expounded on that in a previous story , right? Yea! This first leg of the route was a "new to me" flight, a direct service on PAL from Panglao to Davao. Was I excited? "Very", to say the least! Why? Well, because this route is rather new. PAL started on this only in November 2017 with a 4x per week flight, then they made it once-a-day schedule since March 2018. Convenience both for international and domestic passengers who want to hop directly between these two tourist capitals -Bohol and Davao- without the need for backtracking to say, Cebu or even Manila. Let's go na! Departure From The New Panglao International Airport Bye Panglao's New Airport ! Pushback! Aw, not literally push-back. I...

After my Digos City Tour , I hopped on a bus to Davao City. This is a short trip of about an hour, so I am guessing, it's probably only 50 kilometers or so. But the views are worth remembering for us travelers. Lucky day! This air-conditioned bus I hopped-on-to was new, and noticeably quite clean than others. Let's not talk about the TV monitors since that's common among Philippine buses, right? Not even the curtain at right edge of the photo which is the 2nd door (the 1st one is up front) - also common, right? But look at those two backpacks below the TV monitor at right. If you are not familiar, they are resting atop the ceiling of the bus toilet . Yes, that is not (yet) common in Visayas and Mindanao, even if some buses from Metro Manila to Ilocos already had them years ago (i.e., Maria De Leon to Laoag in 2008)! I actually asked silently "why this kind of bus on a mere 50km trip"? But I realized, this bus could have originated from the far west, like T...