We arrived around 6am
at NAIA terminal 3 and everyone was excited and sleepy. Our plane departed
earlier than expected so let's get that shutter working. We took pictures of
ourselves and Ella while looking outside the window trying to touch the clouds.
If she could speak she would probably say "Look, I'm touching the
clouds!". We arrived 9:30am and the smell of durian was all around...
Day 1. Our first stop
is Malagos Garden Resort. The area was huge and inside was like a modern jungle.
The place houses animals of various kinds and it's really a unique resort
because it's actually a zoo inside a park with amenities! What we enjoyed the
most were bird and fish feeding. The place really offers alot of fun activities for
recreational and team building purposes but all we could actually do is roam
around it.
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| Malagos Garden Resort |
Next stop is the
famous Philippine Eagle Center where we actually found lots of eagles hehehe...
Introducing Scout Binay, a monkey eating eagle only found in the country.
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| The Philippine Eagle Center |
Lunch time! While our
driver run down names of famous restaurants our tummies keep on telling our
brains it's time to eat our fill. Since our schedule was really tight we ended
up eating catfish "hito" on a restaurant along Los Almados. I'm
telling you people, deep fried hito rocks!
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| Evy's Hituan |
Ella and I amused
ourselves on our way to Japanese Tunnel. When we finally got there and went
inside, we found ourselves trap in the past as prisoners of war.
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| Ella & Daddy playtime |
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| Japanese Tunnel |
We couldn't possibly forget the pasalubongs for
everyone waiting for us back home so here we were inside Lola Abon's durian
factory.
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| Lola Abon's durian factory |
We also visited Shrine
of the Holy Infant Jesus of Prague and the nearby Jack's Ridge restaurant. Our
tour guide mentioned that families usually attend Sunday masses here and spend
lunch after. That's what you call quality time!
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| Shrine of Holy Infant Jesus of Prague |
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| Jack's Ridge |
On our last stop, we
went to Butterfly Garden, Crocodile Farm and Tribu K'Mindanawan. What I won't
forget here wasn't the crocodiles but their ice cream. Go check it out for
yourself!
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| Butterfly Garden (while Ella is sleeping) |
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| Crocodile Farm |
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| The famous crocodile flavored ice cream! |
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| Tribu K'Mindanawan |
It was really a long day and we felt exhausted.
Still, we managed to put a smile on our faces on our way to Paradise Island
Resort where we will be spending two nights of our stay here in Davao.
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| Paradise Island |
Day 2. We woke up
early but can't get out of the bed so we took these snapshots.
On our way to Pearl
Farm, Ella watched the boat while it cuts through the waves. When we arrived,
the resort offered us free room accommodation for our 8mos old baby. TALK ABOUT PRIVILEGES! We spent whole day
relaxing and enjoying the majestic view of nature and filling our bellies with
delightful cuisines.
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| Our Ella while she watches the waves |
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| Pearl Farm |
The staff here really pushed themselves to
deliver high quality customer service and they even bid farewell by waving
their hands while our boat run off shore.
When we finally got
back to Paradise Island, we spend our last night with dinner over fire dance
show and live music.
Day 3. Here's a photo
of our room before we took off to Eden Nature Park.
Eden Nature Park
ambiance was similar to Camp John Hay located in Baguio. The guided tour here
will take you around with a multicab. The place offers a variety of flora and
faura. Here you will also see history of indigenous tribe Tinubdan, their
protector Bagani and a house called Balai-Kalimudan exclusively for Datus.
Nearby you'll find
Fishing Village and another new attraction they called Skycycle. Unfortunately
we were not able to try the Skycycle so we just took photos of the area.
Next stop were Davao
Museum, St. Peter's Cathedral and Aldevinco Shopping Center.
Finally, on our way
to the airport we were given chance to visit a fruit Market to purchase more
pasalubongs to take with us back home.
Exactly noon we
arrived at Davao airport and spent time to rest while waiting on our flight
back to manila.
We will definitely
bring with us Davao's spirit... the smell of Durian!
Happy 2nd wedding anniversary to my dearest wife Eva! I love you very mucho!
