GEMRALD DIY TOUR

MANILA DAY TOUR

04-07-2019

If you love historical place, Manila is the most near place to look back to our past, it’s our first time to travel in Manila we are so fascinated to what we experienced, and we hope this blog will help to guide you if you want to go too. Before we tour in Manila we take notes all the awesome places we want to go, we also make itinerary so we sort our time and it actually help us to see all the places.

Sucat Muntinlupa to Manila

If you are base on South, Sucat Muntinlupa going to Manila like us, We ride FX from Sucat Highway with sign board Lawton (46php/1pax) it’s about 30 mins travel, it will directly stop in Rizal Park.

Awesome Places we Visit in Manila

-Rizal Park

-The National Museum (ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological and visual arts collections.)

-Intramuros

-Fort Bonifacio

In Rizal Park you will see the Ocean Park from the other side, we didn’t include it to our itinerary but we try to come back to it, after we take pictures and videos we just walk 5mins to The National Museums, our first tour is on The National Museum of Natural History, we are too early so we wait until its open (10am), all museum have an strict policies so please follow it, we only take pictures inside of all museums and also all are free admission you just need to fill up in log sheet your one name in your group and how many are you, after the Natural history we take lunch, from there we walk to nearby fast foods, actually we didn’t stay that long after we ate we walk to the next museum and next. All museums are near to each other so we can find it easily.

From the last museum, we just walk to Intramuros it’s also an admission free, we are so fascinated on every building we saw, we rent a bamboo bike for only cost 100/1pax per 1 hour also it also have discount for student so just bring your id and present it to them, we tour around the Intramuros easily with limited time. We didn’t finish our 1hour rental so we bring back the bike and get to our last destination The Fort Bonifacio. The Fort Bonifacio is at the end of Intramuros it has admission fee of 70php/1pax for adult and 50php/1pax for student, all with unlimited pass we rest for a bit and tour around the Fort Bonifacio and that is the end of our tour in Manila.

Going home Manila To Sucat

From the gate of The Fort Bonifacio we just walk to get to the main road we easily saw an FX directly travel to Sucat.

OUR ITINERARY

TIME	PLACE	EXPENCES	REMARKS
8AM	SUCAT TO MANILA	48 PHP /1PAX	Travel Early
9 AM	RIZAL PARK
10AM ONWARDS	NATIONAL MUSEUMS
1PM	LUNCH
1:30PM	INTRAMUROS
	-BAMBIKE	100/1PAX	FOR 1HOUR
2:30	FORT BONIFACIO	70/1PAX
5PM	MANILA TO SUCAT	48 PHP /1PAX

You can make your own or follow our itinerary.

OUR TRAVEL CINEMATIC VIDEO

Please view our Cinematic view on youtube.

Gemrald on Youtube

OUR PICTURES

RIZAL PARK

NATIONAL MUSEUM

TREE OF LIFE

SPOLARIUM

INTRAMUROS

FORT BONIFACIO

WE HOPE OUR TRAVEL BLOG WILL HELP .

THANK YOU!!

Baguio DIY Tour

Baguio 2019
date: 01-27,28-2019

1 month ahead of our set up date in Baguio we search for our place to stay in, we look for place that is walking distance to Burnham Park and found the Baguio Overview Apartelle, we reserve for 2nights theres no need for reservation fees you just need to call them for reservation. The room only cost 1000php per night good for 2person, for more infos you can search/contact them through facebook.

We also got a contact person for our tour from a friend, we just call him Kuya, Kuya is so accommodating, and you can deal the cost/kind of car to him. We reserve for a car and driver it cost 2500php day tour. Heres the List of the places we tour.

-          The Old Diplomat Hotel
-          Lourdes Grotto
-          Tam-Awan Village
-          Strawberry Fields
-          Wright Park
-          The Mansion
-          Mines View Park
-          Good Shepherd Place
-          Botanical Garden
-          The Lions Head

And our Baguio Tour Start!!

5am we arrived in Cubao Victory Liner Bus Terminal, from there we buy ticket from to Baguio for 485php 1/pax, its about 5-6 hrs travel and 1 stop over, we just buy breakfast from bus terminal and ate it in travel it’s a long travel hrs after all, And we Arrived in Baguio, after takeoff from bus you will feel the different breeze in Baguio it Cold and Different feelings, And we follow our itinerary we just walk From Victory Liner Bus Terminal to Sm Baguio, we ate our lunch there, After that we just walk to find the Apartelle, at first we cant find it but thanks to Google map we found the exact place, the Apartelle located at top and hard to walk to get there, but the Apartelle is good and cozy , our room is in 4^th floor you can view the whole city.

Our meal cost is not all budget friendly and not recommendable we ate a lot there, but you can try some Restaurant that serves foods that low cost and of course delicious.

3 days & 2 nights tour ITINERARY

DAY 1

Estimated Time	Place	Expenses	Remarks
5am departure	Victory Liner Bus to Baguio City	485 /1pax	5am departure on time / 1 stop over (10-20mins)
10:30am	Arrived in Baguio City
11am onwards	Walk to SM Baguio have lunch	300+ / 2pax	We ate in food court Sizzling Plate -Foods is tasty and juicy
12nn	Check in Hotel / Rest (Baguio Over View Apartelle)	2000 / 2 nights	From SM Baguio to Hotel (10-15mins walk)
3pm	Burnham Park	No entrance Fee	From Hotel to Burnham Park (5mins walk)
7pm	Buy some snacks and ate dinner in Jollibee	400 + / 2pax	Across Burnham park we just walk to market to buy snacks and ate dinner. We also buy some snacks for next day tour
8pm	Back to hotel		sleep

DAY 2

Estimated Time	Place	Expenses	Remarks
6:30am	Wake up / Get ready on tour
8:00am	Break Fast	150 / 2pax	We ate in Hotel’s cafeteria
9am	Start on Baguio City Tour	2500 / 2pax	Rental of Car (Innova) Driver
9:20am	Arrived in Diplomat Hotel	No entrance Fee
10am	Lourdes Grotto (half way going to the top)	No entrance Fee	We ate Strawberry Taho (20php / 1serv) We rented Ifugao Costume (20php / unli wearing time for 1person)
10:50am	Tam-awan Village	60/1pax entrance fee
11:30am	Strawberry Farm / Buy Pasalubong	No entrance Fee	If you want to experience strawberry pickup it will cost 450/kilo
12:40nn	-Wright Park -The Mansion	No entrance Fee	Just across the Wright park you will see the ‘The Mansion’ right away.
1:40pm	Mines View Park / Eat Lunch	Mines View Park has No entrance Fee / Lunch Cost 1000+est 3pax (with drivers meal)	We ate at the restaurant beside Mines View Park.
2:30pm	Good Shepherd Place		Buy more Pasalubong
3:20pm	The Lions Head	No entrance Fee
3:50pm	Botanical Garden	No entrance Fee
5pm	Back to hotel		Rest
8:30	Dinner	KFC	Budget Meal
9am	Night Market
10:30	Back to Hotel		Sleep

DAY 3

Estimated Time	Place	Expenses	Remarks
7AM	Wake up
8am	Break Fast in The Good Taste Resto.	-
11am	Check Out
1pm	Victory Liner to Cubao	485/1pax	7 hrs/ 2stop over
7pm	Arrived in Cubao

You can make your own or follow our itinerary.

Please view our Cinematic view on youtube.

Gemrald on Youtube

*BAGUIO 2019 cinematic using (POCO PHONE and PRESTIGIO 3 AXIS GIMBAL) *Music by: Lany - ILYSB stripped

THANK YOU!

Our Pictures

- The Old Diplomat Hotel
Our First stop, its not so scary maybe because its early in the morning but you will amaze in it. specially the sight from the rooftop you will see the beautiful city.

View from 3rd Flr

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- Lourdes Grotto
Just 10mins from Diplomat Hotel you will reach The Lourdes Grotto, we just walk half away to top.

Strawberry Taho - cost 20php

Lourdes Grotto

Costume Rental 20php for 1set // Picture 20p

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- Tam-Awan Village
In Tam-Awan Village you can see the past culture in Baguio and if you love trekking we recommend this place.

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- Strawberry Fields
In Strawberry Fields you can buy affordable pasalubong in there market their are so many varieties to choose from and also the strawberry is really sweet.