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Lake Pandin of the 7 Lakes of San Pablo: A Getaway Near Manila

January 2, 2012 By Cille Anne 7 Comments

For those who fly to Manila from Mindanao and Visayas provinces at midday, try to have a seat beside the window on the right side of the airplane. Why? So you’ll have the chance to make out below the Seven Lakes of San Pablo. 😉 I have seen this lake system many times from above…

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Filed Under: LAGUNA, SAN PABLO, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: Day Trip Laguna, Laguna Philippines Tourist Sites, Laguna Top Tourists Spots, LAGUNA TOURIST DESTINATIONS, Lake Pandin, Lake Pandin Package, Quick getaway near Manila, Seven Lakes of San Pablo, tourist spots near Manila, weekend getaway near manila, Yambo Lake

Cafe Arabela: Another Liliw Best Kept Secret

March 24, 2011 By Cille Anne 5 Comments

Cafe Arabela Liliw

One of our earlier dates, titus & I, was in Arabela’s Café in Liliw, Laguna, with my chaperon/brother nicko hahha. Arabela Café serves pastries, steaks, pizza, cakes & coffee in an intimate setting. Intimate because the café only has several tables, less than 15 tables if I remember right in a real tight space but…

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Filed Under: LAGUNA, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: arabela, chef mau, food, laguna, liliw

Liliw’s Chef Mau Luto Ni Tatay Sa Bungkol

March 24, 2011 By Cille Anne 7 Comments

I feel strongly about words like ‘road less traveled’, ‘discover’, ‘explore’, ‘risk’, ‘spontaneous’. I maybe a true representative of my sign – Sagittarius – as a good friend has remarked. Lol. Be it true or not, it is by following the off the beaten path that I get to experience more of a place, and…

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Filed Under: LAGUNA, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: arabela, Cafe Arabela, chef mau, liliw, Thai Tilapia

Pagsanjan Falls & Shooting the Rapids

January 24, 2011 By Cille Anne 4 Comments

I lived in Laguna for 5 years, one of the great things about my job then (which I am grateful for) was that it took me places. And Pagsanjan with its Shooting The Rapids river adventure ride was one of those job perks I’ve come to enjoy. (Pagsanjan Falls geographically is really ‘Cavinti Falls’ as…

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Filed Under: LAGUNA, PAGSANJAN, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: Laguna day trip, Laguna Philippines Tourist Sites, Laguna Top Tourist Attraction, LAGUNA TOURIST DESTINATIONS, Laguna weekend getaway, pagsanjan falls, Summer getaway near Manila

Calamba, The Hero’s Town!

August 17, 2010 By Cille Anne 6 Comments

jose rizal usman dog
Calamba City is best known as the birth place of the most famous of all Philippine Heroes Dr. Jose Rizal!

Dr Jose Rizal and his dog

Just beside Calamba City’s main church, the St John The Baptist Church,  is the birthplace of Jose Rizal, the ancestral house was restored and was converted into the Rizal Shrine and Museum dedicated to the national hero’s life and works. The whole compound has a very spacious ground where a replica of a typical bahay kubo stood together with a sculpture of little Jose and his dog gazing at the house. There is

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Filed Under: CALAMBA, LAGUNA, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: calamba city, Calamba The Hero's Town, Dr Jose Rizal, Laguna Philippines Tourist Sites, Rizal Shrine and Museum Calamba, St John The Baptist Church Calamba

Liliw, Hidden Treasure Town!

August 17, 2010 By Cille Anne 4 Comments

Liliw Tsinelas Festival
In the outskirts of Laguna you will find the quaint little town of Liliw, it’s popular among filmmakers as number of films being shoot there has risen in the last decade, the latest of which is the Gabby-KC tandem this July 2010.  But Liliw is becoming even more popular especially among the ladies, and the reason? It’s tsinelas baby!
Liliw made footwears

Female of all ages will go gaga over the fashionable, affordable, and quality shoes, slippers and sandals that the liliw master shoemakers creates. Guaranteed to make even the most jaded of shoppers race to the last store. Once in Liliw, you can’t miss their

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Filed Under: LAGUNA, LILIW, TRAVELS DESTINATIONS Tagged With: Gat Tayaw Festival, Laguna Philippines Tourist Sites, liliw, Tsinelas Festival

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