Update – The Philippines Ferry Database
The Philippines Ferry Database is just two days old and is discussed in many places. We also got some feedback and the first corrections. Less than 24 hours after publishing the database, we got...
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The Philippines Ferry Database – we did it!
The Philippines Ferry Database got real today. A long time dream became true. We’ve built a database with almost all ferry connections in the Philippines. In the Philippines 2016 you can by plane to...
Super Typhoon NEPARTAK / Butchoy now Category 5
The first Typhoon of the Storm Season 2016 is a real Monster. Approaching the costs of Taiwan it now presents gust wind speeds of up to 305 km/h. NEPARTAK / Butchoy slowed down a...
Ouverture furioso – Super Typhoon NEPARTAK / Butchoy
The 2016 Typhoon Season starts with a Super Typhoon. Typhoon NEPARTAK / Butchoy has rapidly gained strength and is now a Super Typhoon Cat. 4. Tue United Nations have issued a Red Typhoon Alert...
Typhoon Nepartak moving fast west-northwest towards Taiwan
Typhoon Nepartak has been upgraded from a Tropical Storm to a Typhoon Cat.1. It is moving fast at 30 km/h towards Taiwan. Only the most northern islands of the Batanes group are within the storm...
2016 Storm Season approaching – first Tropical Storm Nepartak
2016 Storm Season is beginning. It is not yet the Typhoon Season 2016, but first tropical storm is building up in the east. Tropical Storm Nepartak will become a typhoon, however it will pass east of the...
Do you VAPE? US-DOT to ban E-cigarettes!
VAPE? Never heard? So did I, until we got an inquiry from a reader of “Silent Gardens” two days ago. Vape means: To inhale vapour from E-cigarettes. 3 weeks ago my daughter Diane came for a...
Philippines – Fee-lippines – tourists and locals complain
Philippines – Fee-lippines is one of the reasons why tourism stalls in this country. There are many more, but all these separate taxes and fees offend and disturb many tourists – and local people. We did...
Mangroves – Camiguin shows you how to do
Mangroves protect Camiguin’s coast and provide us with clean air. One might accuse Camiguin’s government for the ongoing concrete madness and the diesel power plant, but coast protection is not just a word for them,...
Immigration – be careful with their stamps in your passport
Your passport is your ultimate travel document. In the last years passports got more sophisticated with the embedded chips containing your biological data and much more. But making errors is human! A friend recently travelled to...
Not Boracay – this is Camiguin, the real thing
This is Camiguin! The little island in the southern Bohol Sea is slowly but steadily developing. While Boracay suffers from mass tourism, Camiguin attracts people who like the real things. Camiguin for kite boarders The white...
Camiguin – Competition for the Via Crucis
The Via Crucis or the Sations of the Cross also known as Way of Sorrows or Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew...
Taxis – Nationwide Lower Taxi Tariffs
Taxis – Nationwide Lower Taxi Tariffs. Taxis will have new fares effective on March 19, 2016. The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has announced nationwide lower tariifs. The lowered rates will be implemented nationwide, except for...
Help! We cannot decide which layout to choose
Help! We cannot decide which layout to choose for our ‘Island Hopping’ pages. We finally found enough time to transfer more of our pages to the new fully responsive layout. But now we have a...
Mactan–Cebu International Airport: Qatar Airways!
Mactan–Cebu International Airport is really on the go! CAPA reports: Qatar Airways to continue Southeast Asia expansion with new nonstop routes to Cebu and Hanoi. Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker, told CAPA at...
Laptop and Smartphone in hand-carry only
ICAO Council Prohibits Lithium-Ion Cargo Shipments on Passenger Aircraft MONTRÉAL, 22 FEBRUARY 2016 – The 36-State ICAO Governing Council adopted a new aviation safety measure today which prohibits, on an interim basis, all shipments...
Philippine Airlines selects the A350 XWB
Philippine Airlines selects the A350 XWB – this information just came in from Airbus. But be careful, Filipinos like to dream and announce their dreams as facts. And there is still the B787, called...
The lost Ferries in the Philippines
In the Philippines it seems that Ferries are been lost every day. Or at least the shipping companies do not know where their Ferries are. For all travellers and especially for foreign tourists it...
Ferry Camiguin – Bohol and Bohol – Camiguin
The Ferry Camiguin – Bohol and Bohol – Camiguin is operating at least until Easter. It sails 3 times weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We publish this information because of the many inquiries...
Mactan–Cebu International Airport: when the Indians clean up
Mactan–Cebu International Airport has undergone very important renovation works – in the building, in the management and in the staff. Since the Indians took over key positions last year, MCIA has become a pearl. The...
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