Enjoy the trip and avoid the scams!

Many of us wants to travel for relaxing, new adventure, exploration and other more. We all want to have a very good memories in every travel we made. To secure that we would not experience any bad events, here are some of helpful tips to avoid scams.

1. Don’t entertain any unknown people. If happen that you came into a famous tourist place, many unknown people will come to you and offer different products or services. For safety issues, don’t entertain them.

2. Secure your money. Don’t allow anyone knows where you keep your money. Always remember that traveling in different places requires everyone to spend. But do not spend to much or you might lose every single penny that you could not go home.

3. Avoid any deals. Remember you are in unfamiliar place surrounded by unknown people. The scams that are frequent today is deals that sound so good. Verify the deals before engaging on it.

4. Always clarify the rate of the cubs or any other like transportation. There is a high possibility that cub drivers will overcharge you. If this happens, report it immediately to the police.

5. Beware of the photographers. There are photographers that will offer to take your picture with the place famous landmark. This is usually followed by a payment request, before returning with your photos. Sad to say they never come back, nor your money.


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Anilao Batangas Adventure

“Travel is an adventure of scaping the busy life in this world” by Yugo.

Last November 2010, me and some of my high school friends decided to a beach swimming as part of our two friends birthday celebration.

It took us two months for the preparation due to synchronization of everyone schedules. It is not easy to plan for this two days get away specially if you got a very tight schedule. Thank goodness that they all participated to the plan.

We chose to go to one of the resorts in San Juan, Batangas. One of my friends did the computation for the estimated expense for the transportation, accommodation, foods, and etc. They spotted the best resort for us it is the Balai resort.

The day of the event. After months of planning finally the event has now materialized. It took us about two hours from Manila to Batangas.

At the resort we were welcomed by the staffs and gave us some cold juice drinks. We put our luggage to our assigned cabana. We are a group of nine and we got four cabanas.

After a few minutes of relaxing we took some souvenir pictures and started to swim in the beautiful beach.

At the beach we created the sand castles and play with the waves. In the afternoon we did the snorkeling adventure. It is my first time to see the different color of fish swimming with us.

Our meals are also served by the resort so there’s no need for us to worry about our food. The resort serves three meals a day.

It is so relaxing, it’s just like forgetting all worries to your work and other things that makes you worry.

In the night we got a good bonding experience with vodka and had a good friendly conversations with friends. A conversation of greetings and knowing each other more. I realized sometimes this kind of conversation will make the friendship stronger.

In the second day of stay in Batangas we tried the beach volley ball. It was very fun! Since it’s our last day we started to create more camera posing. We are now planning to our next adventure!

The whole experience to this Batangas adventure was truly amazing!! The resort was very affordable and the whole package of the resort is great! For those who want to know the beach more just click this link to forward you to the site.

Wise Way To Travel

If you love to travel from different places and you want to get souvenirs but you have less budget or don’t want to expand much. Well consider some of my advices.

Plan where to travel. It is always important to know where the location to go. Make some researches or background check of the place that you are going to visit. Rule of thumb is to make sure that place is secured which means no issues of any kidnapping, car napping or same like.

Plan where to stay or your accommodation. Promos for the motel, hotel and inns are always to help you to decide. However lot of us still look to the most cheapest.

To decide where to stay is always to keep this in mind. Check if your place to stay is near in the tourist spots, mall, transportation, community, the view, restaurants, clinic or hospital, police and fire station. Remember this that the closer you are to the place’s famous location is the more expensive the environment is.

There are other ways to avoid the expensive hotels. If you have known some local people to that place, family relatives or closer friend, you could try to ask them to stay in their place just be sure to behave properly.

Food. Not of us are vegetarian. Some of prefer different foods to the other. Some people are limited to what food they will take due to their religion beliefs. The best way is to have a wide research to the available foods to your prospect place. I suggest drinking bottled water or canned drinks because you’re not sure if their local tap water is safe for you.

The place you might visit is really far to your place. Do a wide research for the means of transportation to get there. If it is super far to you perhaps you will need to ride the ship or plane.

I highly suggest avoiding the peak season as much possible to enjoy your travel. Don’t do some rush hour of buying of tickets but instead book as early, “Early booking means cheaper.” There are airlines that do some package sale, if fits for you then grab it.”

Budget! Don’t forget to properly assess the amount you will need for your trip. Compute your expected expenditures and always prepare an emergency fund. Cash or credit card? Cash is always good. There are places which has no access use your cards that’s why cash will always be a handy.

I hope my advices will help you to organize your own travel trips. Enjoy your trip!

Simple Cebu Adventure

Cebu is one the finest tourist spot in the Philippines. The culture, sceneries and foods are the great things the province has.

It is famous for the Sinulog festival (a feast celebration for the senior Sto.Niño).

I’ve heard a lot of good things about the province of Cebu that’s why when I was in College I dreamed to go to that place.

January of this 2011 me and my friends plan to go an adventure to the different places. We were from Rizal province, one of the provinces in Luzon Island. We started to brainstorm for the possible places to go. We came up to a plan to go to Liliw Laguna to buy their famous slippers.



After three days one of my friends Chenee joke around that why don’t we try to go to Cebu. During that time there’s a promo ticket for airfare going to Cebu. The ticket that time was so cheap but every day pass it’s getting expensive. That’s the reason we planned so hard and made an intensive research.

We started to browse for the locations of the Cebu’s famous tourist spots and how to use their local transportation.

The airfare is cheap but the inns and hotels room are too expensive and we can’t afford it. Thank goodness my mom has a friend in Cebu and an owner of an inn. The problem for the accommodation is now solve.

We bought our ticket in the Air Philippine Express. We are all excited because this our first time to go to Cebu and first time to aboard an airplane.

The day has come for our Cebu escapade. We are all nervous in our first flight. After an hour we arrived in Mactan International Airport, Cebu.

We were welcomed by mom’s friend, auntie Cherry, owner of the Cherry’s Pension House(email me for questions regarding this pension house).

After a short nap in our room we simply started our adventure by going to the nearest mall and bought the Map that was essential in our adventure.

We visited the Cebu’s famous landmarks such as the Magellan’s cross, Lapu-Lapu statue, the Taoist Temple and etc. Tips to bear in mind, the Cebu's public transport is cheaper than taxi. Besides riding to their local public transport is fun.

The Cebuano people are very kind and cheerful, they are also a very faithful Christians.

After all the great experiences I earned in our adventure, I’m surely will recommend to everyone to visit this place and for sure I’ll be back in this place.