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Travel Caraga – the most important things that go with me

February 21, 2009 Leave a Comment

Travel is the most exciting part in going to the place that you have not been before, or in a place that is rare to you. When I went to Manila a month ago just an exciting part was an unusual place to me although I’ve been here six times. The urbanization and modernization of a certain place sometimes alienated you compare to a place you have grown naturally, especially a certain place that is a paradise…yes, Caraga.

That night I have prepared the best luggage I’ve got. For tomorrow it will be a place of concrete streets, high rise buildings, and heated weather conditions, and even the smoke belching of a millions vehicle that paraded you most in the streets. Time is also a constraint because of monstrous traffic along EDSA. This is how you witness metropolis Manila. Well, I’m sorry Manila, this is the way I see it!

While in Manila, the strain and stress makes me a disastrous person, and you have to adjust the way of life. These are the things that I have to defend myself: kremil-s and diatabs. Although, I have vitamins and minerals in my unique designed bag but obviously I have to clear my stomach first. This is the weakest part of me since being a young child.

I am going through a lot of things when going to a busiest place, and you must have to prepare yourself physically. That’s why when I went also to other places in Caraga, well these two medicines are all part of my menu, and they are there in the most secret compartment of my dedicated bags.

Sometimes I have to think when I’m grow old, still in my mind the dependency of taking those medicines. Can’t take away how you can cope up yourself without them. Or else your cells gonna die slowly as time goes by.

Anyway, it’s been a threat when strain and stress makes me a disastrous person, if not a useless person when going to stressful metropolis Manila. Anyway, modernization is part of it, and it will takes place soon in a paradise Caraga, maybe for the third generation to come. I am convinced that modernization and tourism will be the main objectives for Caraga to succeed to become a tourist hub in the future. At the start, modernization should be an environment friendly in a form of travel facilities and communications, even you have the best laptops as a tool for invitation globally. At the end, tourism will become the recipient all in all.

Surfing Siargao – the scenic goes even at summer for different breaks

February 15, 2009 1 Comment

Surfing Siargao will never cease even at summer. That’s how the beauty of Siargao. If you can’t surf the Cloud 9 then goes for another surfing breaks. Discover the whole breaks in Siargao…until it breaks you.

Be prepared when you go for the action. If you are beginner choose the area that is suit for you, or else go to Tuason Left.

Nevertheless, if you are skilled have some more fun and adventures jump to Barangay Pacifico.

For unisex adventures and good for beginners when small go to Jacking Horse.

Stimpies is a good for left hander, perfect tropical surf.

Rock Island is best for right hander with so much fun.

My friend told me that Dako waves also started gaining ground for neophytes. Yes, possibilities are endless. You can even find out there are other secret breaks that awaits you. Just make a magnificent tour around Siargao and became a breaks discoverer if not a surfer.

When I went to Siargao, of course the famed Cloud 9, I felt so lucky seeing giant waves forming for the first time before my eyes. A lot of Australian surfers getting in with their surfboards and wetsuits make them a pro. The Caraganon are also making big in this field of sports when drawn into competition. Yes, because it is an inborn gift for Caraganon having surfing sites in Caraga.

I have seen surfers with their wetsuits, and it makes my thumbs up. Unfortunately, we don’t have a complete store for surfing equipments unlike the demand for park city ski rentals for snow player, or the professionally sound deer valley ski rentals for winter spree. It is the best treat for online reservations when dealing with the best equipments. I hope we can do the best surfing online for Caraga in regards to surfboards, wetsuits, and other surfing accessories then after that you can jump the surfing water in Siargao.

I dreamed of myself becoming a surfer. When you go to this kind of sports activities, your body drained not just for physical but the excitement when flying above the level of water. The clear blue water splashes you in the midst when you can not make it. And there is nothing else except when you made it you’ll become a star…and healthy…and slimmer.

And when you retire in the late afternoon or even at 6:00 pm, you retire clean and physically sound as well, and have a nice sleep. A true value when you go into surfing.

There are a lot of important things when you go into surfing, and one important thing is that you go with natures. Natures are your best friend this time. Not just the beauty of horizons, the islands, mountains, white sand beaches in Siargao but you played with nature by expressing yourself through surfing. Nevertheless, you can compete yourself happily with natures as well.

I remember the best surfing online for beaver creek ski rentals for snow player, can we have it here for Caraga for water breaks. Gee, I’m dreaming this time for another surfing activity.

Anyway, I am proud I was born in Caraga – a region of never ending adventures. Wish all your luck here!

Photos and infos courtesy from cloud9surf.com

Best Hotel for Caraga – how about sprouting world-class amenities?

January 31, 2009 5 Comments

When you are in Caraga, you can choose the best hotel and dine in with the sumptuous food that it can offer. Aside from that, Filipino hospitality can never be compared by any other means outside the realm of our beloved Philippines, a character that was molded by our forefathers centuries ago and was drawn in the life of every Filipino. You can also sense that when you are away it feels like home today. Sweet and cool atmosphere, yes, somewhat a combination of them all is the best hotel to show that kind of qualities that it will makes you go back… and back again.

When I attended the convention, of course, there is no other place like Balanghai or Almont Inland Resort in Butuan City, and the Gateway in Surigao City. You’ve got to pull you out from the world-weariness in Caraga. If these hotels are not here, If you can’t find the best hotel in Caraga, then I will jump myself to no other than Mayflower hotel in London, 10 minute walk from Hyde Park. Gee, that’s it, far away from home.

But thanks, since I was born and live in Caraga, a lot of beautiful things happen, the rise of tourism industries such as increase visiting domestic and international tourists, which in turn, hotel booking increases. The result, hotel number increases too, to feed up the increasing demand. Well, I dreamed the rise of world-class hotel like the one in Mayflower Hotel in central London. Sometimes I have to admit that I admire the already established Londoner heritage – preserving the cultures and arts in a hotel vicinities.

Getting the best of historical background as the same here with Caraga, you can find it in Balanghai featuring the history and culture of Butuanons in Butuan City. This kind of hotel shows the face of Butuanon in early times as 400 AD. Anyone will try to visit Balanghai, well, when you go home you know already how Butuan started in the pre-Spanish times.

Hotels are not only a place for living and dining but a place for learning as well. Yes, knowing the place where you go is an example of well success travel and adds your world in an uncharted place. Like it will add me if ever I go to a place like Mayflower Earls Court, that is a far away from me.

It is a beauty and money in a place when you have a break of yourself and retire in one of the best hotel in Caraga. I really love going to these places, of course, you have to prepare the savings in your pocket but the value of experience in a hotel like this one in Caraga cannot be measured by any circumstances since it is your second home. You feel secured and empty, peace of mind, and the flexibility are limitless.

Photos of Almont Inland Resort courtesy of butuanon.org

Sleepless in Caraga

January 29, 2009 4 Comments

It happened 2 months ago until now it shocked me all the way. It stopped me from hemorrhagic days of blogging for Caraga. The trauma has never been gone easily. It always reminds me the fear and sadness when I look at my baby who suffers from dengue hemorrhagic fever. When you are a father, you have to exert so much effort for the sake of you baby to survive, but nevertheless your being a father it makes go to the weakest part of your life, and all you have to do is cry.

The Pain Has Started

My 6-month old baby girl has been in fever for 5 days, I thought it as a simple illness normal for an infant. But during the sixth days, her temperature drops, and she is weak and always sleeps. I always cradle her till she relax and sleep, but when she awake, she vomited that drops all over my shirt. She is so frail and uneasy that I decided to send her to a nearby hospital in the afternoon.

At night, I was able to look the blood results at the Nurses Station, I found out that her platelets drops from the regular 150-300 to 90, I was so shocked because it alarmed me so much of the result. My wife, I see her started to cry in the ward. When our doctor came informed us that our daughter is suffering of dengue hemorrhagic fever. This time her platelet drops from 90 to 60 in just for two hours.

When I heard this, I approached our doctor and talk to her like a little man, with shaky voice and ask her will our baby survive this time. The doctor answer us slowly with a straight words that she is okay as long as we have to cope-up the falling platelets count up to 40, then prepare for two blood donors.

After hearing the words two blood donors, I felt cold and nervous since in my entire life I don’t have any donor of blood replacing my own blood, and this gonna happen of my very own baby of six months.

We have to monitor her platelet count every two hours. The tense and sadness overtakes us whenever the results of platelet count delivered to us. Sometimes I felt hopeless and being a father is losing some part of me. I thought of myself being the lowest father of all times. It seems I am losing the battle against the enemy that horrified my family.

Time flying so fast, we have to hurry-up catching for the remedy but the viruses ate her platelets so fast. She is weak and tired, and her eyes are bulging. The pain and suffering that we felt as parents so much there to hold as we look into the eyes of our baby. But I see in my baby’s eye that she is fighting for the major battle of her life. The next day her platelet drops to the lowest 35, and so I and my wife prepare for the worst. We have to get in the two blood donors to sustain the life of my baby.

Blood donors were sometimes difficult to find in a rush situation especially at the middle of the night. Even the same type of blood, you have to find the right person for cross-matching, and interview him for any background activities.

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

In the morning, new platelets were added in my baby’s bloodstream, and so, it is just a matter of relief for a couple like us. But her platelets continue to drops every five hours of monitoring. It seems the dropping is still there, and we always uneasy of the result until it reach the platelet count to 67. But our doctor assure us that our baby is now in the safe period since she now reach 3 days of the critical period. Our doctor assurance renewed our strength and our hope for our baby to be with us forever.

You can really feel how important this little angel in your life. For six months she was with us, and it is so difficult for us when she is back where she came from. We almost lost her. This time we are hoping for the best of her, and back her new form of life to us.

I really found out that the best place to make your heart happy, not in the beautiful place that your eyes can see, not even in paradise Caraga, but the real tourist destination is a place that we call it home.

But most of all we thanks God for His help and guidance during those times of trials and sufferings that happened in my family.

The Culprit

According to the study, I found out that dengue hemorrhagic fever is caused by a dengue virus which is carried by Aedes aegypti mosquito that feeds during the day. To control the spread of dengue hemorrhagic fever, no stagnant clear water inside and outside your house that has an opening. Even a clear glass of water that is stayed for one week is dangerous because Aedes mosquitos lives and reproduce in clean water. In our house there were some bromeliads, a plant that forms receptacle when rain water comes. We should be careful anything that holds clean water, even those in our surroundings that we can see clean water exist. Well, these are just simple precautionary measures.

Travel Facilities for Caraga – dream of the future!

January 25, 2009 3 Comments

I have been in love with travel sites going places around the globe, the services, and the magnitude of access to different tourist destinations. This could be my latest haunt across the internet in searching for the best deals to anyone that loves traveling. I have been dreaming that Caraga will be listed in one of their destination sites, unfortunately, nothing you can search, and it seems it is a hidden paradise in the eastern part of the globe – untouched and unexploited. Yes, Caraga is a rising paradise that you love to exploit in the near future.

photo of NAIA 2 Terminal – courtesy from skyscraperlife.com

In order to reach Caraga, three main important facilities are needed such as airport, seaport, and land travel. Airport is the most convenient of them all because it will carry you to the fastest of time. Besides it is the most demanded if it has the cheap flights than traveling in the water.

Although we have some marine boats to transfer passengers into an inter island escapade. Then, how about a world class cruise to suit the needs of the visiting tourists in Caraga? Come on, let me see it in the future. Land trip is one of the easiest things in going to a place that is in your mind. But when the road cut right away for another island, you have to take some boat ride. And there you can choose the best cruise facilities in your niche. How I wish for a cruise facilities in Caraga.

Flights direct from Manila posed significant value in reaching Caraga with now a total of 4 domestic flights in Butuan City which is the center of Caraga. The airport needs to be expanded in terms of infrastructure and modern technologies just to accommodate the needs of every tourist or visitors coming to the region. The Department of Tourism already reported last year the 5% increased of tourist arrival. By the way, do we need to have international flights here in Caraga? Yes, it is my dreamed someday that this thing will becomes a reality.

How I love seeing large and international aircraft started to operate in Caraga. Getting the best of Qantas and United airlines in the future. Nevertheless, it is appropriate to say that Caraga is an international tourist destination.