To meet the increasing demand of the traveling public for a high-quality carrier offering low fares, Philippine Airlines is launching a new, low-fares unit that will operate a fleet of turbo propeller aircraft to mostly domestic island points under the name “PAL Express”.
PAL’s move will help boost trade and tourism, particularly to our smaller and farther islands, thus providing a much-needed lift to the local economy of these communities.
PAL will acquire nine turbo-props –three Bombardier Q300s and six Q400s – to comprise PAL Express’ initial fleet, which will be based, mainly in Cebu. Some flights will also operate out of Manila. PAL Express will primarily fly intra-regional routes in Visayas and Mindanao from its Cebu hub, as well as secondary routes to smaller airports in island provinces that are not able to accommodate PAL’s regular jet aircraft.
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Beautiful and exotic, the Island Garden City of Samal or IGaCoS, a part of the Metropolitan Davao area, is a great destination if you are looking for tranquility, great adventures and extreme challenges with nature. It is a coastal paradise located in Davao Gulf, just a stone throw away from Davao City.
The place is blessed with beautiful coast having white sand beaches, abundant marine life, magnificent rock formations, and flourishing flora and fauna. It is home to the famous Pearl Farm Beach Resort, which was once literally a pearl farm.
A guided tour of the island will let you discover its inland treasures - the rivers, waterfalls, antique mansions and ancestral houses, and the world renowned cave that hosts the world’s biggest colony of fruit bats. Local and foreign scientists say that the cave (one of the 70 caves in the island) is home to 1.8 million Geoffrey’s Rousette Fruit Bat.
But the beauty of the island is not just with its white and unspoiled beaches or its diverse natural attractions but to its warm and lovely people as well. All these make this island a potential world-class eco tourism destination in this part of the Philippines.
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One need not be an experienced mountaineer to trek Taal Volcano, mainly for three reasons: the trail is so easy; the volcano is quite small; and lastly, you can ride a horse from ground zero to the top.
Famous for being the smallest active volcano in the world, Taal Volcano is actually a volcano within a lake (which used to be an old crater) within an island of Luzon, Philippines. Bounded by the provinces of Cavite and Batangas, it is just around 60 kilometers south-southeast of Metropolitan Manila.
Volcanologists described it as a small volcanic island, called as Volcano Island, located within a 20 x 30 kilometer lake-filled complex caldera called Taal Lake (Lake Bonbon), which was tagged as one of the great volcano-tectonic depressions of the world. Due to its proximity to highly populated areas, Taal is one of 16 “Decade Volcanoes” that have been identified by the volcanology community as presenting large potential hazards to population centers.
But despite the danger it possess, Taal Volcano has its unique charm. A trek to it summit is a different adventure that is worth the all the danger and exhaustion.
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