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12.29.2009

Some Philippine Travel Tips

Making your travel to the Philippines become worthy of your valuable leisure time requires taking the extra time to prepare before the actual trip itself. You'll be helped a lot by taking time to listen to someone who has lived the first 40 years of his life back in the Philippines. Here's a list of 14 tips, mostly not from the books, for you to consider:

1) It's a tropical country, and an archipelago at that, just like Indonesia, Brunei, Haiti, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Maldives. You'll be surprised at the weather which can easily be 100 degrees Fahrenheit (anytime, except when it rains). The cold season is not out and out cold, as it's manageable and similar to early spring in most 4-season countries. It'll always be humid, as the Philippines is above the equator, about 1625 kilometers from it. It pays to travel light in terms of clothing to be brought with you, unless your trip requires you to bring outfits for special occasions (or to the mountain regions where the weather drops drastically).

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