UFN – how I hate it!
UFN – Until Further Notice is an expression you read in all schedules and announcements in Philippines’ transportation. UFN correctly translated means: YOU CANNOT RELY ON US ! If you read the schedules of...
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Bicol Special – the Journey (cont.)
Bicol Special is a bit delayed. Internet in Bicol is worse than in Camiguin. I’d like to have my old 19.2K modem here. But before we report from the hearth of Bicol, we inform...
Bicol Special – the Journey
Bicol Special will guide you during one week through these beautiful, yet unknown region of the Philippines. The coming highlights will be Naga City, the cultural capital, Daet-Bagasbas surfing, the Pili wakeboard center and...
Dynamite fishing
Dynamite fishing and cyanide fishing are the worst that can happen to corals and other animals around our islands. Even 15 years after stopping this awful practice, nature did not yet recover. When you...
World Travel Market 2014 featuring Camiguin
World Travel Market 2014 is featuring Camiguin – WOW! Some well known people of the island are attending the exhibition. We hope that many freezing exhibition visitors will pack their luggage and come to...
ITIAIR – a strange kind of airline
ITIAIR? Never heard before. Friends went to Palawan and when they came back, they informed us that there is an alternative to get to El Nido. Usually one flies to Puerto Princesa and then takes...
Typhoon NURI/Paeng – faster than Speedy Gonzales
Typhoon NURI/Paeng is faster than “Speedy Gonzales”. Yesterday NURI/Paeng had been a Tropical Storm, this evening it is a Typhoon Category 4. Incredible! Lucky Philippines, the Typhoon kept a good distance and is over 1000 kilometers...
Typhoon NURI/Paeng – the Eye
Typhoon NURI/Paeng is just now developing its eye. You can witness this genesis watching our 24 hours satellite loops. Typhoon NURI/Paeng develops extremely fast over the warm waters of the Philippine Sea. It has already reached...
Typhoon NURI/Paeng still zigzag
NURI/Paeng got typhoon strength early this morning. As a Typhoon Category 1 the directional forces aren’t yet built up. The storm center still moves on a zigzag course. Typhoon NURI/Paeng will gain further strength and become...
Severe Tropical Storm NURI / Paeng
Severe Tropical Storm NURI / Paeng is intensifying rapidly while turning northwest to north. The satellite clearly show the begin of the spinning winds. NURI / Paeng is expected to get typhoon strength around 3 a.m. tonight....
OFW against integration of terminal fee
OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers) stopped the integration of terminal fee for international flights from Manila. OFW have a privilege – they do not have to pay the terminal fee when traveling abroad. On July 14, 2014,...
Tropical Storm NURI / Paeng
Tropical Storm NURI / Paeng is getting stronger. The storm is now within PAR and moving west to northwest. In the next 24 hours Tropical Storm NURI / Paeng will increase in strength and move more northwards....
Lucky Philippines – Tropical Storm running North
Again the Philippines are lucky. The Tropical Storm “NURI” announced this morning is running north. Still some regions of Luzon might encounter light rainfall. JMA, the Japan Meteorological Agency is – as always – distributing very exact weather...
Tropical Depression approaching!
A Tropical Depression is approaching from Guam. The TD is moving slowly but steadily towards Bicol / Quezon region. Bicol as well as Central and Eastern Visayas will have cloudy skies with light to moderate rains...
Manila Airport – be early this Halloween weekend
Manila Airport (NAIA) will encounter much more traffic than usual this weekend of Halloween. Airline bookings make us expect some 40’000 passengers this Halloween weekend. Especially the roads and highways in the red rectangle...
This is Camiguin – an outstanding video
This is Camiguin – an outstanding video about this little island in the Bohol Sea. Take 5 minutes, lean back and enjoy! And if you like the movie, share it. This movie should go viral...
Immigration has a new website
The Philippines Bureau of Immigration has a new website. We just got a tricky visa question out of Africa. So we had a look at the Bureau of Immigration. And WOW – they have a...
New hyperbaric chamber in Cebu
A new hyperbaric chamber in Cebu had been inaugurated by the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) in their building located in front of Mandaue City Hospital. A hyperbaric chamber is medical equipment used to treat...
Confusing Cebu Pacific Air
Cebu Pacific Air confuses travelers. Friends wanted to come to Camiguin. They wanted to come on Thursday and leave next Tuesday. Cebu Pacific Air is the only company flying to Camiguin. So they tried to...
Oceanjet resumes service to Camiguin
Oceanjet resumes service to Camiguin from tomorrow, October 22, 2014. They will again ply the route Cagayan de Oro – Benoni – Jagna in the morning and vise-versa in the afternoon. 8:00 AM...
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