Good Day Everyone!!!! Here's my first entry. I wanna share to you about my travel in the heritage village of the Philippines-VIGAN!
Photos are courtesy of them as I don't have any cameras with me that time
People with me:From top left to right
Alain Corros-Organizer
Richard Ang
Noel Alex Villota
Mau Bonggao
From down left to right
Raissa Ang
Julie Osia
Me
Reggie Pinlac
Kuya Bong-Driver
Date:May 30,2013-June3,2013
Now, we're off to Laoag,
our last destination for the day. We checked-in a at Isabel Suites. It's a free
day for the rest of the afternoon since we finished our first day itinerary
earlier than expected. We even done some of the itinerary for the second day.
It's quite a long tiring day so we rested up a bit....well not for
Reggie. He brought his work here and he's going to meet up with a friend...iba
na talaga pag sikat^_^..I just had a short nap mga 15 minutes lang then change
clothes then tambay sa lobby to call Mom and update her kung nasaan na ako.
Syempre tawag din sa aking mahal then kwento ko sa kanya mga nangyari sa akin
for the whole day. Good thing hindi na siya busy that time.
We don't have much picture in the hotel that we checked-in...."porket nde tourist spot hindi na pinicturan hahaha"
We don't have much picture in the hotel that we checked-in...."porket nde tourist spot hindi na pinicturan hahaha"
ISABEL SUITE
The hotel that we
checked-in on our first day is Isabel Suites.
Pros
The room is air
conditioned. Good thing they have a cable for TV as their local channels uses
local dialects that I don't understand. The location is accessible to market,
restaurant bus terminal and malls.
Cons
I'm not comfortable with
the lights near the bed as it has no lampshade. It emits white light, so just
imagine you're in a funeral with a coffin and you are lying in it (O.O). The CR
is very small, the faucet is too low that I really have to bend just to wash my
face. No Wi-fi in the room so you have to go all the way the hotel's restaurant
just to have one.
Overall rating for me is
3 out of 10. I understand that it is a budget room but there are others which
is cheaper yet better. They can do better than that. Right now, they are
building an annex of the hotel. I hope they wont make the same mistakes.
Reggie is my roomate,
Alain-Noel. Richard-Raissa and Julie-Mau. Reggie also complained about how
small the CR is. Dear Reg, just imagine the agony for the rest of us. Peace
Reg!!!!!
After talking to my
mahal, Noel and Julie came out to the lobby as well. They want to buy a pair of
slippers and a toothpaste, so I joined them. Reggie is already out way before
we even took a nap. And the rest are left in the hotel sleeping. I got the
chance to have a great bond with the pair. I never thought Julie, a tall, sexy
and sophisticated Alessandra de Rossi look alike can be a fag hag or babaeng
bakla hahahaha. She is so fun to be with. We got along very well. Then there's
Noel. You can make him laugh very easily. Just throw a few jokes, then
he'll definitely laugh. Masaya kasama ang duo na ito. Good Vibes! We went to SM
together for their things then walked around the city.
Since some of us wants
to chill and have a few bottles at night, we asked the locals to tell us the
best place to hang out. You know what bar they recommended, COCKHOUSE!!!!!! As
funny as the bar's name, we still decided to drop by and see how the place looks
like. so we asked for direction on getting there. Just a few walk from SM is
cockhouse. It really is a bar with bands and beers. My type of place to chill.
Then we asked for another bar just to have another options. Just like what Toni
Gonzaga said, "OPTIONS! OPTIONS! OPTIONS!" but the second option is
the funniest recommendation. I think they didn't understand us when we asked
them a place to hang out at night. They point us to JOLLIBEE 24 hours
hahahahaha. Unbelievable!
One of the scariest
experience in Laoag is crossing the high way near the capitol on our way home.
Everyone's driving fast and definitely there's a high chance one might get hit
by a speeding vehicle. "Para akong nakikipagpatintero sa mga sasakyan para
lang tumawid". We made a teenie weenie detour on our way back to the
hotel....just to find ourselves getting lost. Hahaha. But instead of taking a
trike or asking for directions, we just followed the directions of the street
signs. For example, if there's no turn left sign, we're going to the right. As
fun as it may be, we still ended up back to the hotel, though I didn't know how we even ended up going back there. The
good thing about that detour is we got a glimpse of the sinking bell tower.
LA PRECIOSA
By the time we are back
in the hotel, Reggie's back and the rest are still sleeping. We wake them up
for dinner, but the siblings were too tired, so it's just the 6 of us. We went
to La Preciosa for dinner.
We ordered, poqui poqui,
Chicken Kare-kare and sinigang na baboy and fish.
Honestly, poqui poqui is
quite funny for it's name yet it still made me very very curious. That's why I
ordered one.
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| Poqui Poqui |
It's made out of
tomatoes, eggplant, onion and egg. Simple, right? But what surprises me is that
its taste is very very good. As in masarap! We even had an additional order of
this one.
Then, Alain ordered
dessert. Since La Preciosa is famous for it's carrot cake, Alain ordered one.
And Again! It's so delicious talaga.
My Over All Rating Here
is 9/10
The price is affordable
yet the food is great. Makes me want to come back for more.
Then we walked back to
the hotel. Of course we took a few picture taking before heading back.
That's how our first day
ended. Quite tiring yet full of fun.
Pictures are courtesy of
Alain Corros, Richard Ang, Julie Osia, Noel Villota and Reggie Pinlac
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