Philippine Travel Notes

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

Departure time from Bohol Panglao International Airport. I was on my way to Davao. Departure Curbside and Entrance As seen in the previous story , getting off the public bus from Alona Beach, I looked left and saw this: That far end is the arrival area (which I already talked about a few days ago). Across that (left edge of photo) is where you'll find the public bus going to Alona Beach, all the way to Tagbilaran's city center. I could see there's a public toilet between arrivals and departures (door near the woman in red shirt). Good that there is such a thing there, because that is an 'important necessity' - for passengers or not! Then I looked right, which was rather empty (I should've trained the camera a bit more to the right)! Wouldn't it be better if that expanse of a red floor had benches (at-least), for well-wishers to sit on? I mean look, there are people sitting on the crash rails (metallic tubes where the floor and wall meets).