#WowDabaw: Ultralight Plane Ride at Mati Davao Oriental

We landed to our President Duterte's beloved land - Davao City! I was so impressed of this big city as I first came here. Davao has gentle and disciplined people. The streets, markets, fruit stands, bus terminals are truly clean. They have four lane roads and their streetlights are useful and functioning. They are gradually implementing the "wire-free city" project where electrical wires are buried below the ground. How I wish we could have these in Cebu as well.

Moreover, we traveled beyond the city of Davao and reached Mati City in Davao Oriental. We experienced the ultralight plane ride, surfing and skimboarding in Dahican. We traveled back to the city and crossed the nearby island - IGACOS, Island Garden City of Samal. Read the detailed story below.

#BraveTheWave: Starting the Year in Breathtaking Siargao

Aloha! It’s 2017 and I’ve started the year with a very adventurous and “buwis-buhay” experience. This is my first ever trip to Mindanao particularly in CARAGA region. On the very first day of the year, we landed to the City of Island Adventures or what we have known as Surigao City then traveled to Siargao, the surfing capital of the Philippines.

Siargao offered a different experience to me. It is not just the islands and the beaches. To me, it is more on the waves, the dialect and the people. Siargao could be a place I can compare with Palawan (particularly Coron) though I can say Siargao has already been dominated by foreigners. My brother even compared it to Bali in Indonesia. Unlike Coron, it is still rising as one of the best destinations in the Philippines and I’m blessed and lucky to be in such a most talked about place.