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camiguin: paras beach resort

2 Feb

paras beach resort.

no. we didn’t stay here while we were on vacation in camiguin august of last year. we simply could not afford it.

we only had pictorials there. LOL!!! us 4 after our lovely dinner.

if you have money to splurge, i suggest you book yourself a room here. as i mentioned in my last entry, the resorts in camiguin don’t have beach fronts. i loathe to say that for one to enjoy the waters of camiguin, you’ll have to travel to the famous white island, unless you don’t mind jumping in rocky waters with black sands. [camiguin locals, please correct me if this is a misguided information!]. so if you plan to be in the water any time you want, you’re better off with a resort that has a pool. of course, if you’ve money to burn, you can always go back and forth to white island. it’s only PhP400 [less than $10] per back/forth trip.

anyway, here are a few pictures of the resort. i wasn’t kidding when i said we only went there for some photo ops, hehe…

kidding aside, we arrived in yumbing mambajao a little past lunch time. we thought it wasn’t practical to rush to seeing the sites of camiguin at that hour. the sun was at its mightiest then. thus, we decided to while away our time here while waiting for our 3 o’clock appointment to head to white island.

the tiny speck of white in the pix is white island as seen inside paras

let the pictorials begin.

moi. this is what i meant when i said the resorts don’t have beach fronts.

dennis with his classic pose

juliet with her take a pic of my back drama

the charming and demure jacky

paras, viewed from the beach

some mountain [mt. hibok-hibok???] viewed from paras

cio and budlat, what’s the drama here?

my travel isn’t complete without taking a pic of my “vetlongwalks” mark

haha. i wasn’t really kidding when i said we were at paras for the photo ops..

the beautiful pool

the beautiful innovation called timers

tinkering with the timer again

cio with his classic and ever consistent facial expression

jacky enjoying her ube ice cream

my watermelon shake @PhP60 [less than $2] and the resort’s menu. hmmm, now that i see this, i wouldnt say that paras is THAT expensive. perhaps it’s only their rooms we can’t afford as we’re BUDGET TRAVELERS.

night scenes at paras

the pool with a few of the resort’s guests enjoying the water

the tower on the left is where we had our dinner. warning: SUPER BREEZY…

the pool, viewed from the white tower

accommodations, accommodations

ordering for dinner

L-billiards/al fresco area– R-budlat helping out cio decide what to eat

playing table tennis while waiting for our dinner [@PhP50/hour – a little over $1]

our dinner [jacky’s spaghetti in pomodoro, budlat and cio’s beef and mushroom, and spicy mixed seafood, my beef lasagna]

dinner didn’t stop us from grabbing this photo op
hmmm, their food isn’t bad, but they’re not excellent either. i’ve had better. theirs is just so-so.

that’s paras beach resort for you folks. click on this to take you to the resort’s official site.

will post next our day tour of the island. probably in installments also.

credits: some of the pix used here are dennis’ [night scenes] and budlat’s.

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a whirlwind day

14 Jul

2:45 a.m.
my phone ringing…

3:05 a.m.
text message: vet???
me: i’m up, i’m up, i’m up… paligo.a sa ko kadali please para makamata ko sakto…

3:30 a.m
drizzling. woke up the driver of a tricycle parked in front of the gate of genesis as we were unable to call for a cab. we had the driver drop us off at mactan doctor’s hospital as we eyed a parked taxi. hailed the cab and off we headed to mactan international airport.

4:03 a.m.
had ourselves checked in.

4:47 a.m.
our plane bound for manila took off.

5:46 a.m.
we touched down at the ninoy aquino international airport terminal 3. we got down through the rear door so we could take pix of the plane.01

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last day in macau

22 Mar

on our second and last day in macau, line and i woke up late. darn! we were so beat the previous day that i woke up at around 10 a.m. with not much time to lose, i immediately hit the shower and woke up line as soon as i finished.

 quarter to 12, line and i were again ready to explore macau01.jpg

by this time, we’ve already packed our bags and on our way to check out of the hotel. as we’ve done the previous day, we left our bags at the hotel counter upon check-out. that way, we didn’t have to pay for an extra night [lest you forgot; we’re budget travelers, hehe…]

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