Philippine Travel Notes

As said in my previous post , this first leg of my earnest circle trip was flying TAC-CEB-MNL. I usually do anyway. If you're not that familiar, TAC is airport code for Tacloban, CEB for Cebu and MNL for Manila. Why go through connecting flights when there are lots of direct TAC to MNL flights? People have many reasons in doing so. Many of you already know, mine is: just to drop my laundry in Cebu, where I live ! Hmm hey, nothing hanky-panky nor illegal there. I just usually handcarry my "labadami", go out of the departure area, Manong JC would already be there waiting for me, and then we "exchange gifts", done! Anything that I have to carry back inside still pass by those x-ray machines. In case I need to check-in anything, I just go to the counters to do so, even if my boarding pass was issued at a previous station. But let's start from the very beginning as I always do, right? Okay, approaching the Tacloban Airport on a gloomy afternoon,

Welcome back dear readers! Here's another series of interconnected trips I have (yes present-tense, because it is happening now)! Many bits to wonder & ponder about again. As usual, I am telling these to you, every end of each day! The notable notes, nice views, fun and funny things, even the rantworthy matters do not only happen at a destination or destinations. They start on our way there, all the way until we're back home, right? So, I'm trying to make this a "blow-by-blow" account. Well, day-by-day lang! Ang daming pasakalye 'no?! O sya sya sige, let's hear my story! This is another long "jump around", that will bring me to places in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. If I'm able to stick to "the plan", it'll go something like this: TAC-CEB connecting to CEB-MNL, where I'll sleep at Holiday Inn Express Manila Newport City (HIE Newport). I'm actually here now, as I write this ! Tomorrow, I'll b

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