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Midway Beach: A resort location like no other

Traveling to places far from home has always been exciting and engaging. We may not know the kind of fun we encounter in the area. Of course, I am not telling you about a gothic horror story in a movie. It is not just like that. What I am telling you about is a kind of stirring encounter with stunning beaches and resorts and activities.

The Place

The gorgeous Midway Beach in Initao, Misamis Oriental has been drawing local and foreign holidaymakers alike. Known as one of the best tourist destinations in the province, Midway Beach brings us peace and solitude. The moment we spend on the beach can be identical to the time when we want to unwind from the long-winding stress due to unemployment, quarantine protocols, pandemic crisis, and uncertainty. However, Midway Beach washes those types of stress away.

A photo taken from Wheretotakepictures.Com gives us a picture-perfect sunset that gives us time to think and unwind…

The Perks

Well, we cannot ignore this. The management of Midway Beach serves good food for our taste. For example, we can request for shrimps being dipped in a hot chili sauce with atchara on the side, hot and spicy ceviche, chicken adobo, and more, or we can choose from the variety of good food from the menus. Besides, Midway Beach has a nice view from the huts and lodges to the beach waters during daytimes and twilights. Now, if we ask for an overnight stay, we can book it in advance.

How To Get There

Going to Midway Beach is easy. If we are in some parts of Mindanao, we can choose Cagayan de Oro as our point of origin. From Cagayan de Oro, we can hire vans and taxis or ask Magnum Radio for the means of transportation going to Initao. Magnum Radio has taxis and vans for various rides. With that in mind, we can guarantee everyone that we have plenty of taxis in Cagayan de Oro.

A photo taken by Verano Natad gives us a suitable location to take some pictures and post them on social media platforms…

Extra Words

To be sure, we need to ask the local tourism office. Perhaps, this office can give us the best and safest trip. Also, we can ask the locals for tour guides. We, as well, can check the website from wheretotakepictures.com and give credits to it for more details. Or perhaps, we can use our Google Maps or smartphone to check where to go through the use of GPS or something. At this point, enjoy traveling.

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Claveria, Misamis Oriental: A travel to forevermore

Going to the mountains is refreshing. You always get the bracing ambiance due to its calm and cool breeze of both summer and winter. Cliché as it sounds, you can roam along Claveria, Misamis Oriental to catch the amazing fog and the spellbinding panorama. Well, you cannot just somewhere too far.

The Place   

Claveria, Misamis Oriental gives you another adventure. It offers you an exciting trip going to the different stopover coffee shops and restaurants along the road. Of course, Claveria with its revitalizing ambiance wants you to roam around the place and explore the massive lush-green forests untouched by human corruption and maneuver.

The Perks

Claveria has View Deck. It has had good coffee and other food items. If you want to stay in a little longer and throw your stress up in the air, you can do it here in Claveria, Misamis Oriental. You can go home without it. As well, Claveria has Don Narciso. It is another stopover coffee shop. The atmosphere and environment, too, are uplifting. Additionally, Claveria has Local Kapehan, which you can stop by and have your brewed coffee if you want. However, if you go beyond Claveria, you can stop at Doal Nara if you wish. What I mean is, traveling is cool and pleasurable.

How to Get there

Going to Claveria is exciting if you have your private vehicles. You can rent a van or car if you try, but I can assure you that traveling there is electrifying and moving. Despite the hassle in life, you can still find ways to enjoy roaming around the area since life does not stay forever.

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Traveling is not a waste of time. It is a point in time when you need to explore the world. In general, life is too short for us. We cannot stay forever. And yet, our clock is ticking. If we think of all our problems and worries, we lose all our courage to deal with life. So, spend days and nights traveling.

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MGC Star-Mac Resort and Hotel: See it to believe

Traveling, as you always define, is fun. Some choose to travel to different yet remote places in the country. Others do not even consider visiting some places safe and sound near them. However, if you like beaches here in the area in Misamis Oriental, then you can find a perfect place for your adventure. Would you say that you didn’t like the crowd? Well, please visit MGC Star-Mac Resort and Hotel today. It is perfect for you.

The Place

MGC Star-Mac Resort and Hotel is an amazing location for your new adventure. You can find something secluded where a few people can visit. The location is perfect for your adventure. You can visit the resort and hotel at Purok 5, Baranggay Mauswagon, Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental. The entrance fees vary from the different shifts, such as ₱50.00 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and ₱150.00 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

The Perks

MGC Star-Mac Resort and Hotel offers a cerulean-blue swim-side pool, homegrown-constructed building, and other entertainment hubs.

Inclusion: FREE USE OF SWIMMING POOL

Room Rates

  • Family room (3 pax) 2,500.00
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, with own comfort room, free breakfast good for 2 pax.
  • Barkadahan room (10 pax) 6,500.00
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, with own comfort room
  • Double twin (2 pax) 2,800.00
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, Mini Refrigerator, with own comfort room, free breakfast good for 2 pax.
  • Matrimonial room (2 pax) 3,000.00
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, Mini-refrigerator, sofa, with own comfort room, free breakfast good for 2 pax.
  • PWD room (3 pax) 2,000.00 (separate building from the hotel)
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, with own comfort room
  • Standard room (3 pax) 2,000.00 (separate building from the hotel)
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, No own comfort room (Common Bathrooms)
  • Dorm Standard (4 pax) 2,500.00 (separate building from the hotel)
  • Inclusions: Fully airconditioned room, TV, Wifi, No own comfort room (Common Bathrooms)

How To Get There

  • Take vans from Gaisano City – Donsal Van Terminal.
  • Prepare the average fare for air-conditioned vans.
  • Spend one hour as your travel time from Cagayan de Oro depending on the traffic jam
  • Stop at the Highway of Barangay Mauswagon, Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental
  • You can ride a commercial motorcycle (habal-habal) going to the resort from the highway.

For bookings and reservations, please contact the management at 0917-794-6006; marketing.starmacresort@gmail.com

Extra Words

As an adventurer, you always need to ask the locals. Make sure that you are alert most of the time. Turn your GPS on and use Google Maps if possible. With this extra caution, you can revel in your adventure.

Consistent with the IATF Guidelines under executive order No. 36, you cannot take with you your senior citizens and your children aged from 20 years old and below.

NOTE

Please note that details may vary since this writing takes place in October 2020.

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Lagoon Beach Resort: A place to remember

The beauty of Lagoon Beach Resort does not fade despite the splash of fears of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its magnificence remains intact to lure guests and visitors to stopover the place. And yes, the entire season of respite causes them to stay at home for a while. Due to the stern travel restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 endemic, tourists choose to stay at home and maintain physical distances among friends and relatives. However, the span of the global health crisis appears to lose its grip as more countries including Bahrain, Canada, New Zealand, and others begin to open their airports and terminal ports for local and international flights. As such, the Philippine government, somehow, start to instruct many business establishments to open and commence their operations. And Lagoon Beach Resort is one of them.

Lagoon Beach Resort has been featured in Misamis Oriental Journal during the gravity of the worldwide epidemic. The article featuring the Lagoon Beach Resort gives only a preview for people to plan for their next adventure to escape from the horrors of COVID-19. As well, this featured article helps guests and visitors see beautiful places and imagine that life after this health crisis remains fun and exciting. The Misamis Oriental Journal only tries to cheer readers up and think of the positive side of life. Of course, we don’t need to be buried in the deep ground of misery and sorrow because of the crisis and because we lose someone we love most. So, we try to lighten up ones’ thoughts to feel life itself and see hope beyond the grim and harsh impact of the plague.

Now, Lagoon Beach Resort is open to the public. With a few guidelines, guests and visitors truly love to spend their days and nights splashing their thirsty feet and soles walk into the sands of the world. This idea seems idiomatic, but it only means that we all have the joy to revel after this contagion. Since almost all business establishments are free to operate, the management of Lagoon Beach Resort can give new hope to enjoy life at the resort.

What are we waiting for? Oh, we know where Lagoon Beach Resort, right? It is in Pangayawan, Gitagum, Misamis Oriental. For bookings, please visit the website of the resort today or contact the management through this mobile phone dial at +63 927 640 0728. When you talk to the administration of Lagoon Beach Resort, please don’t forget that you learn the place from us – Misamis Oriental Journal.

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Little MALDIVES: Mindanao’s grandeur and glory

You are not lost. You are still in the Philippines. You are just surprised because you are not aware of the Philippines yet. Even if the Philippines is our country, you fail to explore and set your adventures. And, if you are new to the Little Maldives, then you probably have to expect this – the jaw-dropping encounter of the area. But, before that, you have to reach the exact location of the beautiful pride and spot of the Philippines. It is the Little Maldives at Barangay Tubalan, Malita, Davao Occidental, Mindanao, Philippines.

As well, the Little Maldives is stunning, right? You may have noticed this picture – the beautifully crafted bridges and the artistically and creatively constructed beach houses that would occupy the part of the massive rock structures to form an island. This scenic spot, by far, gives you a period of amazement. Looking at it closely, you will see the stunningly designed beach houses with some stilts in the water. The pillars holding the bridges and the cottage structures give the strong foundation of the whole area. Gorgeous as it is, your attention and focus get hooked by the magical spell of welcome of the Little Maldives. This place in Davao Occidental lets you appreciate the gift of nature. The blessed location of Davao and the magnificent destination for tourists give you these fascinating pristine and clean waters. As you can definitely see healthy marine life plus the coral formations and underwater creatures, you can stop right in the middle of your musings and wonder, nothing else. Of course, when you try to take a look at this real-life picture, who are you to refuse to visit the place. You know you can’t.

Additionally, you can’t repel the spell of the glorious beauty of the place. It seems an enchantment, but it isn’t. All you have to do is to pay an ENTRANCE FEE of ₱20.00. Please check it out since prices may vary. But, it doesn’t hurt and scratch your pocket. Now, if you want to travel, you definitely have to set your adventure plans. You may contact Georgette Sagang via these mobile phone dials at 09755619694 and 09185825049. If you want to book your adventures, you need to contact the tourism officer Jing Danolko with this mobile phone dial at 09755950517.

And oh, before you forget, you may ask how to get there. Well, if you are in Davao City, take the bus from Ecoland Terminal to Malita Davao Occidental. Then, you stop at Tubalan, Malita where you need to take commercial motorcycles known locally as “habal-habal” going to the Little Maldives. And, that’s it.

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Hugo Sky Lounge: A paragliding of a lifetime

Have we skipped Cagayan de Oro for another magnificent adventure? Maybe, we have overlooked that. We have been very busy planning for our adventures in the coolest and most refreshing destinations in the country. Since domestic flights are open now, we have been drawn to travel to the best places and most alluring locations that the Philippines has to offer. And yet, we have forgotten a paradise in the megalopolis where we realize we have never been there before. For us, Hugo Sky Lounge at Amaya View in Cagayan de Oro has always been a paradise. We may wonder why we call it a paradise when the place is in the metropolis. Well, if we try to imagine the term “metropolitan area,” we come to think of the following words, such as busy, chaotic, dull, frantic, ghastly, and hassle. And yes, we are correct. However, we all have the options to take. We just need to go somewhere, very near, that we can appreciate and experience the goodness of life amidst the present global health crisis.

Setting our paragliding adventure here at Hugo Sky Lounge in Amaya View, CDO

Paragliding at Hugo Sky Lounge in Amaya View truly activates our spirits. It gives us a sense of competitive adventure and the recreational sport of flying paragliders. We can be paragliders if we want to paraglide. We just have to decide. However, how can we resist paragliding when we feel like doing it? We just need to feel the wind as we try to fly freely. By flying, we can float, flounce, and sashay into the vastness of the stratosphere. With or without paragliders with us, we can still enjoy the foot-launched glider aircraft with no unbending main organization.

At Hugo Sky Lounge, we take an adventure of a lifetime. Are we going to skip this adventure again? Of course, we aren’t. We just have to plan this thing right and buckle up with our paraphernalia.

Oh, do you know where Amaya View is? Please check the information below.

    • AMAYA View CDO © 2020
    • Indahag Hills, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
    • (+63) 917-149-0641
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Cebu Waterfalls: The unseen jewel of South Cebu

We have visited a lot of places in the country. From those visits, we could say that traveling could be fun and interesting. We could, also, say that we would look to learn more about nature and people from different backgrounds in the country. We would always have the passion to learn more about people and to extend connections by talking to them. However, of all those journeys, we could not ignore the scenic spots that would remind us of utopia. Now, we can say that traveling is fulfilling and that it allows us to meet people and their conventional cultures. However, we cannot go to places too far to reach. Travel restrictions and quarantine protocols are underway. Besides, some places like tourist attractions are unavailable due to stern quarantine measures imposed by the local and national governments. However, some places are open to serve guests and visitors. They open their businesses, but they follow government guidelines. Thus, if we plan to go somewhere and wish to explore not only Misamis Oriental, we can set our adventure plans now and fly to Cebu.

Somehow, we want to travel outside our comfort zone. Since we are from Misamis Oriental, we also wish to fly to Cebu via Air Asia, Cebu Pacific, or Philippine Airlines to reach the hidden jewel and utopia of Cebu. If we do not have enough money, we choose 2Go Travels and other vessels. To tell our readers, we have been to Cebu for many years, but we have not made our stops at the tourist attractions. Well, we were busy back then. The reason we visited Cebu was business meetings and field trips from schools. This time we wish to go to South Cebu to enjoy life. We want to enjoy the beauty of nature and its fascinating landscape. Additionally, we need to visit the spectacular Inambakan Falls in South Cebu. After Inambakan Falls, we can also visit Bugnawan Falls and Kampael Falls in three days. In other words, we can spend one day on each falls.

Well, from the airport or port terminal, we can go directly to South Cebu Bus Terminal and pay around ₱180.00 air-conditioned bus. We can also pay the commercial motorcycle known locally as Habal-Habal for ₱100.00 per person.

Once we land on Cebu soil, we go directly to South Cebu Bus Terminal.

    • Take buses going to Ginatilan Proper for three (3) to four (4) hours.
    • Ask the drivers to drop us off at 7Eleven.

Ginatilan Proper

    • We take Habal-Habal. We tell the Habal-Habal driver to drive us off to Inambakan Falls.
    • We can try to negotiate the driver if we may. We can ask if the drivers agree with ₱300.00 per person for the three (3) waterfalls. Then, they can wait for us to go home.

Then, we revel with nature. We quietly take some photos, ask nature to grant us good image captures and vibes, and maintain the area clean. We eat our delightful snacks and food. As we make every minute of excitement and fun in the three waterfalls, we just dive into the water, feel it, and swim without saying a word since magic and miracle of nature can surely cast spell beyond our imagination.

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Gumataan Falls: Salay’s entrancing tourist site

In times of crisis like this, we need to unwind. We need to find some activities to ease the pressure and tension from the coronavirus contagion, political drama and strife, economic injustice, and health problems. By finding these places for social activities, we can go to the beaches, pool resorts, mountain hills, and waterfalls to remove stress. For us, doing these social activities appears to be the best decision to make.

Of course, we need to relax. We need to stop doing what we usually do. As life is short, we have to spend time well. We deserve to celebrate every single day since we do not know what lies ahead – the ballooning prices of all products, the growing scarcity, and the swelling acts of dishonesty and fraud in some of the government agencies. Probably, we are right. We are correct to decide to unwind so that we can see the beauty of life and nature. Through traveling, we can, somehow, reduce stress. Instead of delving into the draining and straining technologies like smartphones, TVs, and the like, we can dive into the water, take a plunge, and enjoy the scenery.

Well, going to Gumataan Falls in Bunal, Salay, Misamis Oriental is an adventure. It is a way to create excitement and fun. Instead of being hooked on numerous technologies, such as the Internet and social media, we can enjoy life. We can invite friends and social circles to enjoy life with us. Technologies construct barriers to keep us so distant to the point that we no longer see and recognize one another. Because of this reason, we need to spend time with members of the family and friends to explore Gumataan Falls as one of the gorgeous and stunning tourist destinations in Misamis Oriental, Mindanao, Philippines. And this point, Gumataan Falls awaits us to get refreshed by the cool and refreshing waters of nature.

Going to Gumataan Falls in Bunal, Salay, Misamis Oriental can be the best option to make. This adventure may sound ordinary, but its impact takes us a lifetime. Gumataan Falls may not have the classy and exquisite look compared to other locations; however, the nature-look and view give us a taste of innocence and simplicity as dive into the crystal-clear waters of the falls.

Upon arriving in Salay, Misamis Oriental, we need to check Barangay Looc along the national highway to take a motorcycle locally known as habal-habal. It only takes us a one-hour drive to Gumataan Falls.

Finally, we can, also, contact this mobile phone dial 09458946454 for a van for hire, motorcycle ride, guides, and queries. Please try since we contacted this mobile just a year ago.