Mint Manila Cebu/long beach 9 free line (Mint)

2009 11 from Malaysia Pulau redang Island parking back after brewing the 2010 Spring Festival travel arrangements, preferred or Southeast Asia, because my footprint is not involved in the Philippines, so not much compared to travel the country given.

Philippines hot line has long beach I., mint and Palawan. Considering that use 9 days or so, so we discard relatively popular Palawan love nidao, long beach and Mint two lines into one as the destination of this excursion, Manila and Cebu and as a transit point. Parking with heat waves, which are four family trip together, the number of 10 persons.

The destination set, consider travel time, the festival ticket prices are high, to begin to come down in the first five six, due to the Mint Island Loboc Church children's choir singing Sunday, mint Island inland tour as a time node must arrange in Sunday.

Combined with the above two factors, taking into account how to time reasonable to the fourth in a series, for which the Cebu airline for Manila, long beach, Cebu, mint and four air services between the time together to finalize the Manila flight Mint, peppermint ofunato Cebu, Cebu fly long beach, long beach flying Manila line. The travel time is set at 2, 19-27 February.

In addition there is also a problem is from long Beach Airport have card Declan and card standing wave, in order to save time and avoid running around, so I do not consider card standing wave, plan go traffic convenient card Clain, but it is said that because the repair track, Cebu air have not restored opened this route, and thus before 5 December in Cebu aeronautical site set up Shanghai roundtrip Manila (2030 yuan/person) and Manila flight Mint (2038 pesos per person) 3-ticket, later discovered that Philippine Airlines flying card Declan flights, on 15 December in a PAL website booked Cebu fly long beach (4666 pesos/person), long beach flying Manila (5134 pesos per person).

Because personal to Philippine Consulate visas required unit proved that not all Companion is very convenient, so on December 9, a and cruise travel agents delegate ($ 450/person), in five days it all here.

Ticket Visa get, 20 December started booking the hotel.

Comparison of several booking site, ultimately selected have many booking through Hoteltravel website. Control map, considering price, transportation, and hilarious, and then choose two or three. When you selected the hotel Cebu is no suspense, make the city Crown Crown Regency Hotel Richland homes Residences Hotel (57 USD/room). Manila in Malate district Marat Las Palmas hotels Las Palmas Hotel (55 USD/room), mainly consider the bustling night market, and the location away from the city in the city, Manila Bay and coconut Palace distance are similar. Long Beach I. set at S1 's sprained Waling Waling Beach Hotel bells Beach Hotel (133 USD/room), on the ground that it is not far away from the S1 S2 lots. The above three hotel booking smoothly, all in a day or two was confirmed, but Mint Island Hotel is in trouble. Location must be in the island, next to the guy, but the BBC choice cannot be ascertained, the first of the selected room type cannot be met, and reply to the first day 19, no room, two days after the last connection is not, then change the ' white beach resort Rona Alona Kew White Beach Resort, the resort with Hoteltravel website just build relationships, so the information is not very clear, and encounter new year's day, so until 4 January succeeded booked in mint Island accommodation two days before (177 USD/room). After a day out in the next guys island on the other side of the Sherwood Bay Resort & diving school Sherwood Bay Aqua Resort & Dive School (6000 pesos/room), the holiday resort without the prior advance online, but when the front cover.

From December 5 to start booking until 4 January all tickets accommodation and visa get all, spent the whole month.

At this point from 19 February travel there is one and a half months. Because I 5 January to 14 January led to Malaysia Langkawi Pangkor Island, so I can travel the day before the next trip preparations disposed of, it is really very nice.

The first day of Feb. 19th, 2010 year six Friday, Cebu air Shanghai fly Manila flight is in the middle of the night 679 0: 30 a.m, the comparable time arrive at Pudong airport is 18 February 22.

With the two previous riding horse flights to Kuala Lumpur transit, Cebu air baggage cannot directly consigned to Mint Island Tower tagbilaran, only to Manila and then run the baggage to the next leg of the shipment, the next leg of the boarding pass can do together in Shanghai. Left blank when, after inspection, the aircraft in flight 679 0: 30 a.m, sailing three and a half hours to 4 o'clock arrived in Manila airport.

Smooth your baggage immediately after, and then went to talk to the ATM machine, see several sets no UnionPay logo on the ATM machine, try to take the view, the result is smooth through to the peso.

With three different bank debit card total took 120500 pesos per ceiling 10000 pesos, back to Shanghai after the deduction of payment records that the query, each Fund fee $ 12, handling fees vary by Bank, ICBC is 1%, slightly lower Shanghai Bank, Bank of China. Purse drum drum later to Cebu air domestic departure procedures, consigned to the Manila international go home preferably an airline, a terminal building, if transfer to Philippine Airlines plane, that had to go out and ride to another Terminal.

Cebu Cebu air Manila fly first class flights is 6: 15, my bookings taken into consideration and baggage, money and other factors, so

Select the 8 point 35 minutes flight takes off, so turn 617 time is 4 hours and a half, we also have plenty of time in airports ate breakfast.

Bought 200 pesos/person's domestic airport taxes last inspection, the inspection of the Philippines must take your shoes off.

Aircraft access point after take-off, 0950 reach Mint Island Tower tagbilaran airport, the airport is very small, stop on the runway at our flying the aircraft, shipping luggage conveyor belts, nor by the workers directly moved to table claimed by the visitors themselves. Get good luggage went to talk to the car, on a bus can take 10 people and luggage Van, 800 pesos to the hotel.

10 point 25 minutes away from the airport to travel to and from the island next to the guys, the next connection Mint island and have a Yankees island and South Bridge, Tower of tagbilaran on the North, and airport terminals are going North Bridge.

More than half an hour after the arrival of white sand beach, Rona resort Alona Kew White Beach Resort, I booked the beach before Executive rooms Executive room beach front, 177 USD/room.

As the room is not free, first to the right hand side the beach in front of the restaurant spent 2680 pesos ate the meal Philippines lunch.

After dinner on the beach looking for a boat out to sea tomorrow, definite 1800 pesos/boat to see Dolphin-Dolphin Watch, Balicasag Island Sea Cliff and Virgin Island three projects in the Crescent beach.

Nearly one o'clock came back to the resort, for the master room is not good, because the standard check-in time is 2 pm, so can only rest in the corridor, not sleep all night, ladies all play dozes off to play.

Noon check out even if the room is the holiday resort of waiter still collective rest until 2 points, attendants began collective to clean the room, but action is fairly quick, soon after finishing, quickly seize the time to sleep.

Wake up to 17: 30, came to the Argentine Rona go back and forth on both sides of the beach, the beach has a lot of green seaweed, the beach is not very clean.

' White beach resort Rona today to the batch of Taiwan tour, holiday resort at the beach on a buffet restaurant, eschew Wow Wow direct response, the guide describes a loud Dolphin time tomorrow, feeling a jumble.

We 10 people at 7 o'clock collection came to distant point beach open dining table had a wealth of seafood dinner meals 5640 pesos.

After a meal to Arroyo na white beach resort restaurant reservation tomorrow's breakfast, the restaurant in order to facilitate early and see dolphins, you can make an advance booking of overnight with breakfast, tomorrow morning to sea to restaurant took away.

Disposed to return to the guest room balconies, collective play "look on in despair," from "look on in despair" tonight with the entire itinerary of idle time, one dollar, greatly satisfying a bunch of ladies and young adult "addiction".

Complete back to the room to sleep.

The second day on 20 February, 6 o'clock appointment to sea swim, with restaurant for our breakfast good package to Arroyo that beach, first boarded the ship, in the Philippines crabs both sides stretched "xiejiao" in can play a very good balance.

Today the sea waves, breakfasts on board ship, crab go straight to the South, 6: 40 arrival Pamilacan Island near the sea, the boat's skipper stopped four feet, then around a few of the crab boat, which I had uneasily the dolphin's shadow.

After a boat and start moving forward, open open do not know where to take a lot of the crab boat's skipper, could have contacted the signal between? suddenly front called the finger's skipper, all eyes turn there and saw qishuashua many dolphins alternate blinking arc wipe the water formed columns in the same direction, next to the former, the murderers of the crab boat race to trailing, but soon be dolphin far left. However the sea Dolphin has a number of groups that have just gone up again over there, there was a time when we bow near over a group of dolphins, attracts travellers a screaming cheers. And so the boat in the sea cruising around the moment many clocks, 7 points after the dolphin was gone, and all the vessels that have been dispersed, we ship to the Balicasag Island, southwest of.

Boat for half an hour, 7-point 35 minutes reach Balicasag Island, where they landed on the island's South Shore, here is a piece of rock's Beach, the shore with a row of gazebo to build places of rest for dinner, we enter a family rest, taking into account the fact that the water is too cold in the morning, going to a back to back later to submarine Cliff snorkeling.

Ladies rest, male compatriots on the beach walk, the rest at the right hand side is the only resort on the island Balicasag Island Dive Resort, the resort looks like a lot, in the heart of cabins scattered in the open sea, swimming pool and the restaurant are near the front the beach, very quiet here environment, but in the evening may be too quiet, there are the beaches here are not very good, as its name, to the person most of the guests to Dive deep diving.

The entire Balicasag Island, rectangular, from the rest and turn on the left is its long edge, it was a long, sandy beach, a tourist and service points, it seems that people come Balicasag island just to look at the sea cliff.

Stroll around in a circle back to rest at 9 o'clock, storms at sea's skipper said noon will be even greater, so I decided to go to the bottom of the cliff, the sea cliffs on the shore 100 meters in the shore of the sea, you can see the sea of ferry boats and life jackets figure dressed in red.

Sea swim crab boat because eating depth, is not on the domain of wrecks, our 350 pesos/boat price package three boat to the bottom of the cliff. Sea Cliff strange is that, in a spacious flat full of coral seabed along suddenly becomes a dark blue world, I walked along the Sea Cliff junction (equivalent to land on a cliff cliffs), longitudinal and enjoy a colorful coral, one side is the head of the open pit unmeasurable, on several occasions tried before to the direction of the abyssLine, but had a psychological fear immediately, lest encounter swirling undercurrent, quickly back to the edge of the cliff. In addition to the features of submarine cliff, where fish varieties in particular are abundant, saw many previously seen in color, just not the fish Nemo. But here the number of fish but not many, but not like Malaysia Alba ya Islands and Thailand Krabi Chicken island that piles of fish stocks, the other lacks is coral, compared to Thailand Pipi island waters and Hin Klang Malaysia heat island Kalong Bay deep-sea coral color and variety that is poor too far. But in any case, the body Pro long undersea cliff edge shock is unique.

Seen enough beauty after 10 minute ferry on the boat back to shore, at noon in the gazebo next to rest, because you know in advance homework to Virgin Island Crescent beach only at low tide, two hours, so the most beautiful, spent early ordering food 2630 pesos ate's Beach House lunch, 12 point 25 minutes leaving Balicasag island.

Balicasag Island, Virgin Islands in the East of the island, more away from the Mint, the Balicasag island from Virgin Islands need half an hour, which is why many travels to featured in big waves's skipper, time to catch up as an excuse to abandon this trip, I scheduled vessel has repeatedly stressed that must be in the low tide to the Virgin Islands.

12 point 55 minutes to uninhabited Virgin Island, the island itself is very small, that are not marked on the map, but it is an extension to the sea of Crescent Beach, low tide in knee following can reach the islands of the maximum distance at least a hundred meters, the length of the island itself must longer many, this is really a big spectacle, because the vertical stretch of beach, wide but more than ten meters, in the middle is similar to the Ridge, left and right sides of the beach to the sea, we ran with water after the disembarkation in the backbone of the beach, look ahead, blue blue waters have a sparkling white ribbon is curved-shaped stretches, looking back over the island, the beach gradually wide re-appear, with small island shore beach even together, imagine that from the air, the picture sure looks more beautiful, the shape should be like a greatly comma, dot is a small island, the long apostrophe is Crescent-shaped beach.

We walked along the Crescent to the depths of the sea, the sea go a long way, but also in the knees, I walk in the front, I'm a good walk, gradually and the rest of a very long distances, far away from the crowd alone at sea, some sense of micro-fear of shadows, see depth while you walk a lot, but I don't really have the guts to go to the end of the beach.

Slowly walked, embodied the main, close to the Virgin Islands, beach side has some fishermen draw over the sale of boat in the Sea Urchin, at first glance, the needle of sea urchin puncture in the Palm of the hand worming, fishermen will split the AX, cutting to sea urchin visceral, will depend on the Sea Urchin hard deposits on the inner wall, scraping down some more spice, bile, and then it can be eaten raw, 10 pesos a puffing, sell.

13: 50 bid farewell to the Virgin Islands, possibly because the relationship is so smooth, came back ship so quickly, the total spent half an hour back to Arroyo's beach.

Back to the ' white beach resort, Rona, came to the front flower 800 pesos booking a Van, agreed to the bee farm 16 dot eaten dinner and then sent back to the resort.

Then contact the front desk Advisory tomorrow Mint Island tour itinerary, tomorrow is Sunday, before homework has to this day arrangements for Mint Island Tour, just to catch up with each Sunday morning in Loboc Church children's choir singing, but the hotel front desk said now children choir of time instead of Friday night, and in front of our face once again it is a call to confirm information lag, knew to Friday night, we arrive on the day of mint Island (19 February Friday) and are able to catch up with, is really a man better than day, let's leave some regret.

Since children's choir singing is not, then don't get up tomorrow, take 3500 pesos booking a Van, Convention-8 am, visit Mint Island some regular spots.

Because you don't know to buy scheduled ticket terminals will have unexpected, considering that collective action, in the resort reception reserved acquired from Peppermint to Cebu Island, the ferry tickets 500 pesos per person, plus 100 pesos per person reservation fee.

Back to the room to rest, arrive at the door, passenger cars also arrive on time, get straight a bee farm.

The farm of various color honey ice cream is very good, I eat this not that old cold drinks also couldn't stomach Once More, however the so-called bees meal is not afraid to flattered, 4961 Peso did not eat out of a feature. The farm has cabins, here although linhai but there is no beach, plus hillside environment is not very good, so personal that it select here the resort accommodation. For this visit of tourists also many, seems to be buggy, and farm gate commissary business very well, from time to time someone comes out with honey products.

After dinner, multiply by bus back to the ' white beach resort, Rona, playing cards, as usual, the rest of the rest.

The third day, 21 February, ate breakfast at the front desk got scheduled tomorrow going to Cebu's ticket, then all luggage will be taken to the lobby, yesterday, when the Convention today baggage car, truck, run-length after direct us to tonight's accommodation point Sherwood Bay Resort & diving school Sherwood Bay Aqua Resort & Dive School.

8 took the bus from the island to the next guy, the guy next to Mint island and Mint are two bridges, from Mint terminal or airport into the alongside the guys go north to Mint Island attractions went south, because in addition to the chocolate mountains is in mint, the remaining spots in the middle of the island are basically in the South.

8: 40 arrive at the first attraction Alliance Memorial

Tablet Blood Compact, five superior iron casting portrait Wai together, the two sat leaders toasted Covenant, three men Shou-li. Memorial statue is located at the beach, the sea of time than at the time also long statue. Photo shoot hurry, 9 o'clock came second spots glasses Tarsier monkey visitor centre Visitors Centre, which can see the novelty of the only Palm-size eyes like a monkey sitting on the bushes, squint of dozing off, open eyes watching visitors, blind manner, no matter how you enjoy taking pictures, the garden is not just a dozen eyes monkey, the door without tickets, but with donation boxes around, visitors are very consciously put some money to these precious little animals donated some money also.

Next stop the third spot is man-made forest Forest, at the Made Man go chocolate hills, mountain side is a large artificial afforestation results, bus stop for a moment on the roadside, photos, feel the breath of the forest, and then on to the chocolate hills, car on the way already saw in the heart of the Hill, 10 point moment came the first four places of the chocolate mountains, get off and buy tickets for 50 pesos per person, and then walk 10 minutes uphill stone steps on to the top of the Hill.

Mirrorlike surrounded by small Habitat Ruddy, like Gers, like high village bread, like a good chocolate, like fentou, anyway, is like that. Now this season most of the mountains are a green, only a mountain seems to be burnt, so is chocolate brown, I wonder if is not is the local people in order to create a mood of chocolate and intentionally.

All attractions in the chocolate mountains far away, after the car back down the mountain, 11: 05 minutes came fifth spot Butterfly Garden, tickets 20 pesos per person, it seems after domestication of butterflies, let the staff placed in tourists head face on it do not fly the camera shoot, butterfly dotted with pretty girls on the hairpin and head of the overhead and the young woman's nose, brought laughter.

The butterfly garden, 11: 40 came two slings bridge, here not attractions, the river has several small shops, in fact, is a tourist souvenir shopping spots in this rest bought some coconut taste.

12 point 25 minutes to 6 spots Krobo Loboc River tour River, incl. lunch 350 pesos per person, each way visitors with chartering, two boat on the shelves of a circle of cabin, became a small tour boat, we call this a not many people, so a smaller Board, if the person did have a rectangle of larger vessels, of course, is in a small boat on a large cabin, swimming in the River, a guitarist has been singing, wait until the end of the tour of the River, the waitress will come to receive tips.

Because you have to lunch time, so the ship was just a start, they begin a lunch buffet, the River is a tropical jungle scenery, over dinner enjoy very pleasant. Almost finish, such as ship shore, here is a poor base, ashore and came to a place that looks like the indigenous tour funka, archery, play lizard, swing rope, there are specialized with tourists taking pictures of smart kid, but each has donated money for the small box. A laugh after returning to the boat trip, journey headed home.

13 point 55 minutes back to shore, and get off at 14 h 05 Min to the seventh spot Bakla Yang Baclayon Church, this church is known as the Philippines second oldest church, the oldest of the Philippines coral stone church.

Go to a church out of children 's, we just missed a couple in the wedding, and the Krobo Church children's choir to slip past, only to hear the sounds of the journey is as well as gain, sit down quietly listen to, and then entered the next wedding ceremony, the platform for a while singing for a while, the following people for a sit down for a while standing, because we know the road, plus the language barrier, follow with stand up sit down, can't stands for our several Enron meditation, sit for a long time did not wait for the exchange of rings, so he went out of the Church.

The church door with small traffic in ice-cream, 25 pesos a buy eight, hawker will only do the addition does not do multiplication, brutally in cold drink paper wrote nine 25 (wrote a) after one together, it seems that the mandate of the United Nations to combat illiteracy is very difficult.

Leaving the Church, today's run was all over, then go to accommodation place tonight Sherwood Bay Resort & diving school Sherwood Bay Aqua Resort & Dive School.

The hotel is recommended by Hoteltravel website, the Mint Island accommodation when I was first considering three days all in mint Club Bohol Beach Beach Resort (BBC), however, travel in this without all three days of the BBC, the next best thing, select front man Islands to the southwest of Arroyo na white beach resort, now that is not the original intention of ideal 's, I chose two days living in ' white beach resort, Rona, last day of the change, select the next guys island is located in the North-East of Sherwood Bay Resort & diving school. This is a well known small holiday resort, with private drivers are not found in the road, en route stop asking twice before they reach the gate, the gate closed Mengen Mody will have security to open the door, because few people, the environment is very good, close to the seaside swimming pool, we provide a Standard family suite and Superior jet room rooms of different room types, all spacious and tidy, but it was in peer who sigh, it should be three-day live here. Of course there is the inconvenience of traffic, into and out of the vehicle must be booked and also the whole no Arroyo, Marina Beach business climate.

Reception our landlady and waiter is the boss's daughter, her father is Japan, not at home, the mother is the United Kingdom, from time to time to see the silhouette of the United Kingdom woman busy.

This is a deep dive services resorts, wall hung on the certificates of many types of diving and snorkelingLocation map of the sea and a their own sailing yacht. There is no beach, the shore are basically all the rocks. Not many guests here, the whole afternoon in the pool to see three generations of a family of young and old, of Western tourists in the dining room at night to see a young tourists in Shanghai.

Living here is not easy to go out for dinner, dinner at the resort restaurant, though less but restaurant service and quality tittle, price is not too expensive, ten people took 5680 pesos.

After dinner in the luxurious Superior room room party jet cards, and then enjoy the quiet of the night.

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(Sherwood Bay Resort & diving school Sherwood Bay Aqua Resort & Dive School)

(Eye-monkey)

(Comma-greatly--Virgin Island Crescent Beach)

(See dolphins)

(' White beach resort Rona Alona Kew White Beach Resort)