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     Whether you are an art enthusiast or not, you will love Pinto Art Museum located inside a village in Antipolo City.  The museum is big enough for you to consume 2-3 hours going around and interpreting their artworks.  The galleries are painted in white and designed like a vacation houses.  The garden is lovely.  It’s like you’re spending some time in your favourite resort.      They have great collections of Filipino contemporary arts.  Colourful paintings and even black and white.  Intricately designed mixed media and sculpture - small and big.  So many for your eyes to feast on.      If you get tired and hungry, you can visit their cafe and order some food and drinks.  Although, we never tried it.  They look delicious, I guess...       I highly recommend this place because it’s not your ordinary type of museum.  It’s educational, enjoyable, and rela...

Travel Date: June 15, 2014      A popular day trip among locals and just 2 hours away from Manila, we travelled to Tanay, Rizal to visit Daranak Falls and Calinawan Cave.       The hike to the falls is easy and near the entrance area.   Entrance fee is cheap and you can rent a cottage if you want.  There are public toilets and canteens to order food.  The falls is small and the water is clear.  It is deep so you can jump if you want.      After the falls, we hired a guide to bring us to Calinawan Cave.  For only 15 or 30 minutes of hike, we reached the area and hired another guide to the cave.  Going down the cave we saw stalactites and stalagmites.  What amaze me were the shiny stalactites crystals.  I never expect that I will see one here because of its proximity to Manila.  There were number of levels to explore, but we did the easy one.  The cave is beautiful and f...

Travel Date: April 6, 2014      You have to see this ancient artwork!  The carvings that are believed to date back late Neolithic Age (6000 BC to 2000 BC) are engravings of animals, people, and other shapes.  It was the national artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco who discovered the engravings in 1965 while leading a boy scout troop on a hike.      If you are fond of history and know how to appreciate a high value treasure, it is a must that you visit this site.  Also, there is a small museum for artifacts and something to read about the discovery.      To protect the petroglyphs (scientific name for carvings), they installed a wooden view deck to prevent the visitors from touching it.  Some are hardly visible.  I think you really need to get really close to observe and identify some of the carvings.  How to get there?      The easiest and cheapest way to go there if you are com...

    Club Manila East located at Taytay, Rizal has the biggest wave pool and the first surfing pool in the country.  One of the most exciting parts of the resort is the OceanWaves, which has a three-part gigantic wave pool that is the size of more than ten basketball courts combined.  The first part of this pool, a fourteen feet deep diving pool gives the thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies a big splash.      The second part is the Family Waves Pool. It has different wave patterns for the whole family to enjoy.      The third part is the Surfing Pool, wherein, the surfers will surely get stoked as they ride their surfing boards.  This is good for the beginners who want to practice their surfing skills before they go out to the ocean.      Surfing lesson is also offered by CME and all surfing activities are supervised by the Philippine Surfing Academy (PSA).     ...