Malapascua Diving Spot, Philippines

Just off the north coast of Cebu, Philippines nestled another unspoiled idyllic paradise island ideal for those tourist looking for best destination in the Philippines. Its name literally means "Unfortunate Christmas”, Malapascua, boasts its name as Philippines’ perfect vacation destination for all tourist and beach lovers. Malapascua is a beautiful sleepy island with white sandy beaches cover with green palm trees and surrounded by blue clear waters, which is one of the best in the Philippines. The island’s exceptional long white beach stretches around the south-east coast of the island facing Cebu, Leyte and Biliran.

Malapascua also called "Logon" is located about 8 km. northeast of Cebu mainland and 25 km. west of Leyte. In the island you cannot see cars and most buildings are only one floor high that makes Malapascua Island seemed to be a lonely planet and labeled as new Boracay but without the crowds. But behind that silence laid the natural beauty of the island that will certainly keep your day busy.

Malapascua’s main attraction are the beaches that is best for diving and snorkeling that often ideally located at the west cost of the island. With its wonderful place to dive most visitors are divers or backpackers, making Philippines as their destination for newest diving spots. Diving at Malapascua will make worth of your stay to enjoy with thresher shark sightings in the world, seasonal hammerheads, white tip sharks, mantas, mandarin fish, pygmy seahorses, cuttlefish, beautiful coral gardens and a huge diversity of marine life that well-preserved.

As for those who love to feel the nature, Malapascua’s white sand beaches would be ideal to take a walk around to see the local villages and feel the natural breeze along the shore. The island is small that it only takes about 3 hours to walk around and witness the fantastic views over from the lighthouse that is open to the public will surely worth your visit.

The island is suitable for families and young children too. There are resorts in Malapascua with swimming pool ideally for family vacation and relaxation. If you want to completely unwind massage services are also available around the island. When you are in the island you will not feel your stomach to be empty. Malapascua has some excellent restaurants with excellent quality, and is generally a mix of Filipino and European dishes. The next time you seek for best white sand beach and diving spot in the Philippines consider Malapascua.

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Philippine Best Tourist Vacation Destination

• Ilocos Norte Surfing Capital
• Philippines' Chocolate Hills
• Banaue Rice Terraces
• White Sand Boracay
• The Philippine Tarsier
• Magellan's Cross
• Malapascua Diving Spot
• Palawan: The Last Frontier
  

Surfing Capital in Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Aside from Siargao, the Philippines treasure, for being acclaimed as surfing capital in the world nestled another place in the northern part of the Philippine archipelago that every surfer would love to visit. At the coast of Pagudpud, northern tip of Ilocos Norte a new paradise quietly laid Kapuluan Vista Resort. This resort is a leading-edge destination in the Philippines for tourist backpackers and surfers. Kapuluan Vista Resort distinguished itself by combining natural beauty, a diversity of activities and events, and delightful accommodation. Kapuluan Vista Resort apart from other resorts is that one will indulge more than just comfort but also adventure. It endowed with not just a comforting breeze but of those also breathtaking cloud nines that every surfer will be delighted which corroborates from its location. Who says that the best surfing capital in the archipelago is in Northern part of Mindanao only? Here in the upper north of Luzon, Philippines also rest a new found surfing capital that will surely invite more tourists to visit the place.

The resort’s location is approximately one hour and thirty minutes from the Laoag International Airport. If you are from Manila, Pagudpud can also be reached by land via air-conditioned bus or if you want to rush to savor your moment reaching the place you can take an air travel to reach Laoag International Airport. The International Airport in Laoag serves as the main gateway to the Ilocos Region. Airline flights schedules are regularly available via Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines. For a delightful accommodation Kapuluan Vista Resort offers pickups to its visitors from Laoag to Pagudpud and vice versa.

So the next time you want to enjoy the best tourist destination in the Philippines try Kapuluan Vista Resort.

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Philippines' Chocolate Hills, Bohol

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In the Philippines Bohol is the place that one must also try to visit. Aside from its beautiful white-sand beaches but the place is magnificent too because of its signatured landmarks. The Chocolate Hills are Bohol’s most famous landmark for tourist attraction spread over the municipalities of Carmen, Sagbayan and Batuan.

The world-renowned cone-shape Chocolate Hills is Bohol’s expression of its natural beauty. Most people are can hardly believed that these hills are not man-made landscape. These natural beauties consist of not less than 1268 hills though some claim it as the exact number. The chocolate Hills got it name after not only of its uniform shape but because it turn into chocolate brown at the end of the dry season seemingly endless rows of chocolate cones. Most hills are approximately 30 to 50 meters in height. Though in the hills are associated with a chocolate color it doesn’t imply to be as it at all since before the dry season it is covered with grass thus; every hill also looks green.

The Chocolate Hills is not only covered by beauty but also with romance and mystery. Legend has it that when giants lived with mortals, Agoro a gentle giant fell in love with a village girl named Aluya. Formed centuries ago by tidal movements, the hills are considered as a National Geologic Movement. Right now the highest hills have been developed and provided with facilities such as a restaurant, hostel and view deck.

Getting into the Chocolate Hills
When you plan to get there plenty of tourist guides and tour operators are ready to transport you to the Chocolate Hills, whenever it is a special trip or as part of your day tour. However if you want to feel more of adventure you can reach it by your own. From Tagbilaran you will have to go to integrated bus terminal in Dao and catch a bus going to Carmen. There is no need for you to feel a complete stranger in the place you won’t have much hard time to find one. But in case you find it hard the people in Bohol are friendly that they will surely give you the right direction. When you aim for the bus much better if you’ll catch the first one to leave and ask the driver to drop you at the Chocolate Hills complex, just about 4 kilometers before the town of Carmen. As you will reach the place it takes you a 10 minute walk winding up to the complex.

To get back to Tagbilaran, you will have to take a walk back to the main road. From there you’ll wait for a bus to pass. The last bus from Carmen will leave at 4 pm going to Tagbilaran. For alternatives you can also take some drivers For-Hire service vehicles intended for tourist and local visitors that includes motorbike, taxi and “haba-habal”.

If ever you came from Tubigon, Bohol via a ferry from Cebu, a few bus go to Carmen daily. But from there, sometimes, you have to take a little more patience to fill up the bus with passengers. Upon arriving in Carmen, you can catch the next bus or jeepney in the direction of Bilar, Loay or Tagbilaran, or look for a 'habal-habal' driver to get you into the Chocolate Hills Complex.

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Germany and Austria: destination for business and leisure

The Republic of Germany as a destination for business

Germany is rated as one of the most technologically and scientific advanced country in the world. In addition, Germany is a founding member of the European Union with over 82 million inhabitants, meaning a huge market while Germany itself has the largest population among the European Union countries. Germany can serve as an entry point to this huge market while Germany itself too is a huge market for your products or services. Not only that, Germany is ranked the world's third largest economy by nominal Gross Domestic Products, the largest exporter of goods and the largest national economy in Europe. Germany has a high standard of living, meaning its inhabitants have great purchasing power. It is also a good source of products to import if you are an importer instead of an exporter. Products marked "Made in Germany" command great respect among consumers of the world.

With the world getting more environmentally conscious and solar energy as a source of electrical power, the fact that Germany is now the world's largest producer of photovoltaic (PV) electricity with 39% of world capacity compared to 38% for Japan plus also the fastest growing major photovoltaic (PV) market in the world, businessmen in search of environmentally friendly products to import should be making a bee line for Germany.

The Republic of Austria as a destination for business

Austria is among the 10 richest countries in the world in terms of Gross Domestic Products (GDP) per capita plus a very high standard of living. Germany is the main trading partner of Austria, and the two countries are thus tied together closely in terms of business.

Germany as a destination for leisure

You can have almost anything in Germany. You want fun and relax, Germany have some interesting theme parks such as Europa Park, Germany's answer to Disneyland, and Phantasialand in Brühl, among many others. Like architecture. You can see amazing architecture in Germany. The women will love the fabulous shopping and the men the pulsating nightlife. Those enamoured with quaint and ancient stuff or romanticism will enjoy the enchanting medieval villages and traditional wine villages which frequently host friendly festivals and regional specialities plus the numerous ancient castles, palaces and abbeys. Nature lovers will love the picturesque countryside, ideal for walking or simply relaxing in. Germany is also famous for its spas.

Austria as a destination for leisure

Austria's per capita tourist revenue is the highest in the world and this should tell us something about Austria as a destination for leisure. Austria's largest tourist attraction is the Alps for skiing in the winter and for hiking and camping in the summer. Skiing enthusiast will love Austria with its numerous ski resorts. Worth a visit is also the Danube valley with its vineyards such as the Wachau or Dunkelsteinerwald.

Vienna, the capital city of Austria, has its Cathedral, its wine pubs (Heurigen) and the romantic Vienna Waltz music.

Those in Media Art will love the Ars Electronica Center in Linz which has been hosting the Ars Electronica Festival since 1979. There is the highly coveted Prix Ars Electronica, the worldwide highest-ranked prize for media art.

Accommodation in Germany

Germany has a state-run Interhotel network. Hotel rooms in Germany may be classified into 4 categories, from the most expensive "Deluxe" rooms to "Expensive", "Moderate" and "Inexpensive". A good place to look for inexpensive accommodation is Germany Hotels although if you want to insist on staying in more expensive 4 or 5 star hotels, you can still find them in that online accommodation website.

If you want accommodation in Berlin, the capital city, try Berlin Hotels which is a German language online hotel booking website. If you can't make head or tail out of a German language website, no problem, for they have a English language version at Berlin Hotels

Accommodation in Austria

Austria has 20,000 hotels and pensions, 50,000 private rooms plus thousands of simpler accommodations, such as youth hostels, mountain huts, and campsites. The later categories of accommodations are harder to book online, but for Austrian hotels, it should be a breeze at Wien Hotels. A warning though, that is another German language website. But with Alta Vista Babel Fish and Google translate, that should be no problem. Just put in the website URL into the appropriate field, chose the language, and you get the whole website translated into whatever language you want.