Philippine Travel Notes

This ride of only about 5 kilometers, took exactly 26 minutes. Yeah, that long! Ah yes, the world-famous Metro Manila traffic hahaha! Yet, I secretly wished for this ride to crawl a little bit slower! I wanted to see more. This was nostalgia time for me! Resorts World Manila and NAIA Terminal 3 Were Part of Villr Airbase How and why is that? Well, in my younger years, I often passed via this vicinity. This area we were departing-from was part of Villamor Airbase (earlier Nichols Airbase), until a big portion was expropriated in 1995 to become NAIA T3 and Resorts World . I do still remember many things here. For example, diagonally across HIE is PAFAM or the Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum . It is technically just across the road. But I don't even know now, if one can go there by just crossing the road, as there are now three flyovers leading to, or from, various expressways and urbanities like BGC! Well, if you can cross from HIE (Holiday Inn Express) or ...

Welcome back dear readers! Here's another series of interconnected trips I have. Yes present-tense, because it's still happening now. Many acts , scenes & sceneries to wonder & ponder about again! As usual, I am telling these to you, every end of each day! The notable notes , nice views , fun & funny things , even the rantworthy matters do not only happen at our destination or destinations. We encounter them the moment we are out of our abodes, on our way there, all the way until we are back at home, right? Right! So, I'm making this a blow-by-blow account. Aw sige, day-by-day na lang! Ang daming pasakalye 'no?! O sya sya sige, let's hear my story! This is another long jump around , that brings me to Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. If I am able to stick to "The Plan", it will go something like this: TAC-CEB connecting to CEB-MNL, where I will sleep at the Holiday Inn Express Manila Newport City (HIE Newport). I am actual...

Let's go to Vietnam, okay lang? Okay na, andito na ako as I write this eh! 😁 Ah eh.., this is still my Philippine Travel Notes blog, and as always, I will not regale you with sights and scenes of other countries to entice you in going there. Aba oy, loyal Pinoy pa rin ako. Sometimes, I just need to describe them (like now) for comparison purposes, with travel-things in our dear inang bayan! So, I flew from Tacloban to Ho Chi Minh, but it required 3 connecting flights with layover in Singapore. Look at the white arrows representing my flight routes - 1] Tacloban to Cebu on PAL, transit lang (hey I passed by T2 on a bright time of day!), 2] Cebu to Singapore on Air Asia (slept at Changi Airport T2, as usual, para libre!), then early this morning, 3] Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon yan!) on Scoot Air. There are new (and updated) 'learnings' I want to tell you! As for the yellow arrows, yun ang pabalik ko, 4 flights yun! But let's talk about them later - as c...

Let's continue my stories on this trip out of the new Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2 . Not that there is anything to shout to the whole world about -especially since I prefer to tell only stories on Philippine travel. But I do have notes from here and there, that might be useful to dear Pinoy Travelers. Such as: aircraft used by Air Asia on their Cebu~Kuala Lumpur flights, are Philippine registered planes (just like those on their domestic flights), meaning owned by Philippines Air Asia , with IATA Code Z2 . This started with a curiosity why my flight number was "Z2 7110", not "AK 7110" - because I knew long ago that the two-letter IATA code of Air Asia, Inc. (a company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is AK. On top of that, my connecting flight from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia to Medan Indonesia also on Air Asia, had "QZ 125" as flight number, not "AK 125". Curious, I also searched that, and I learned that the airline is Ind...