Tarlaqueño Traveler's Suroy-Suroy Series /01 Photobook

Photobook cover featuring San Juanico Bridge (Leyte/Samar/Region VIII)

Ako na ang feelingero! Haha. Tarlaqueño Traveler has come up with a Photobook featuring some of the places he has visited from 2010 to 2012. Although it was really my dream to be able to publish a coffee table book about travel or photography, the initial idea of the photobook came up when I stumbled upon a group buying site offering a discounted photobook. I thought this was the perfect time to gather my travel memoirs and have them printed in one organized book that I can share with everyone. The photobook is entitled "Suroy-Suroy Series /01," featuring attractions from 26 provinces in the Philippines.

Spending Two Hours in Talima Beach Villas and Dive Resort

With a little more than 2 hours to spare, my friend and I decided to spend our remaining time on a day trip. Our choices were Shalala Beach, Abalone Resort, and Talima Beach Resort. Shalala Beach is a public beach with no restaurant. And since my friend had already visited the place, we scrapped it out of our options. Abalone Resort, on the other hand, is a resort which looked good outside (we passed by it on the way to Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary). But since it is an inland resort, meaning there is no beach, we also eliminated it. So we were down to Talima Beach Resort. I’ve already seen the resort in the internet and it appealed to me. So Talima it was. From OIWS, a tricycle picked us up and drove us all the way to the resort for 120 pesos. There were some exaggeratedly bumpy parts going to the resort.

Bird Watching at Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

On the way to the bird watching area.

Cebu has loads and loads of attractions to offer. I have visited the province five times already yet I still haven’t gone to many places, especially the far ones. I usually toured just around Cebu City and Mactan Island. During my 5^th visit to the province, I only had 7 hours to tour the province and at first I couldn’t imagine if I’d be able to visit at least one interesting place off the city.

Fortunately, my friend suggested a place outside the city that we could visit with our time available. It’s Olango Island, a small island 4 kilometers southeast of Mactan Island and is under the jurisdiction of Lapu-lapu City. The island is home to the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary (OIWS), a 1,030-hectare wetland where almost 100 species of migratory and resident birds can be found. This makes OIWS the area in the Philippines with the largest concentration of migratory birds with a total number of 48 species.