Shop 5 Safeway Plaza 128 Campbell Street SWAN HILL VIC 3585 Day 1 – Melbourne/Manila 11:00am/04:10pm Tel: 03 5033 1888 Fax: 03 5033 2386 Email: [email protected] Upon arrival at Manila International Airport you will be met www.suncentretravelandholidays.com.au and transferred your hotel for one night stay at Golden ? ABN: 98 792 514 920 Phoenix hotel. (B) Day 2 – Manila – Baguio After breakfast, Leave really early in the morning to travel by air conditioned transport to Baguio City approximately 5 hours travel depending on traffic. The developed portion of the city corresponds to the plateau that rises to an elevation of 1,400 meters. Stay 2 nights at Microtel Hotel (B). Day 3 – Baguio After breakfast, visit Baguio Cathedral, Mine’s View Park, The Wright park, The Mansion, Burnham park, Camp John Hay, Bencab museum and Baguio market. (B) Day 4 – Baguio – Manila Today we will visit Philippine Military Academy (PMA) – the premier military foundation of the country and it is the training ground for forthcoming officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Depart Baguio City in the afternoon. Overnight in Manila at Golden Phoenix Hotel (B) Day 5 – Manila Leave early to travel to Villa Escudero Plantation. Explore the museum of Filipino arts and history. You will be taken to your lunch by a “Carabao driven cart”. After lunch, you will watch a Filipino cultural show. Overnight at Golden Phoenix Hotel. (B,L) Day 06 – Manila – Caticlan (Boracay) Transfer to Manila Domestic Airport for your flight to Caticlan. You will be met on arrival at Caticlan Airport and transferred to the ferry terminal then picked up at transferred to your resort in Boracay. Stay 4 nights at Hennan Garden Resort. (B) Day 6–10 – FREE DAY – BORACAY ISLAND Day 10 – Caticlan (Boracay) – Manila Transfer to Caticlan airport for your flight to Manila. You will be met in Manila domestic airport on arrival and transferred to your hotel for 2 nights stay at Golden Phoenix Hotel (B) Day 11 – MANILA – Free Day Day 12 – FREE DAY Time at leisure before being transferred to the airport for your flight back to Melbourne. PACKAGE $2,995.00* COST: Summary of Inclusions: per person/ twin share • Return economy flight Melbourne/Manila/Melbourne Return domestic flight Manila/Boracay/Manila • TOUR DATE: • 3 nights in Manila with breakfast 6 May 2018 BOOKING CONDITIONS: • 2 nights in Baguio with breakfast Reservation & deposit: Full names as per passport is required when making a • 4 nights in Boracay Island with breakfast booking and a non-refundable payment of $1000 deposit to secure your participation in the tour. • Transfers from airport to hotel and back Final payment is required 60 days before your tour starts. • Boat and land transfers from Boracay to the resort & back Travel Insurance – It is strongly recommended that all customers are adequate- • Villa Escudero tour with lunch * Single supplement cost ly covered by insurance for the duration of their travel arrangements. is available upon request. • Service of an English speaking guide on all Tours It ’s more fun in the Philippines! Geography and Location The Philippines is one of the largest island groups in the world with 7,107 islands and islets lying off the southwest coast of the Asian mainland between Taiwan and Borneo. It is bounded in the west by the South Villa Escudero China Sea, in the east by the Pacific Ocean, in the south by the Sulu and A self-contained working coconut plantation, Celebes Seas, and in the north by the Bashi Channel. It was founded in the 1880s by Don Placido Escudero and his wife Dona Claudia Marasigan. Manila is the seat of administration and the center of commerce and Originally planted to sugarcane, the crop was industry, culture, arts, and education. It is one of the loveliest and most converted to coconut by their son Don Arsenio exciting cities in Asia. Escudero in the early 1900s. A pioneering agro- industrialist, he built the country’s first working Climate: hydroelectric plant to supply his dessicated The Philippines is normally warm with abundant rainfall and gentle winds. coconut factory and Villa Escudero, where he There are three pronounced seasons: wet to rainy from June to October; and his wife Dona Rosario Adap built in 1929. cool and dry weather from November to February; and hot and dry weather from March to May. Boracay Island Voted the world’s best beach by Sun Herald, Australia and Harper’s, Boracay is the perfect island getaway, with its warm blue waters, powder-fine white sand, and a palm fringed 4-kilometer beach and often Baguio City dubbed the best beach in the Philippines, and in Asia according to the latest TripAdvisor survey. The name Baguio conjures, for both the international and domestic traveler, a highland retreat in the Grand Cordillera in Northern Luzon, with pine trees, crisp cold breezes and low verdant knolls and hillocks. Through the numerous decades Baguio has morphed from what was once a grassy marshland into one of the cleanest and greenest, most highly urbanized cities in the country. It has made its mark as a premiere tourist destination in the Northern part of the Philippines with its cool climate, foggy hills, panoramic views and lovely flowers. Being the ideal convergence zone of neighboring highland places, Baguio is the melting pot of different peoples and cultures and has boosted its ability to provide a center for education for its neighbors. Its rich culture and countless resources have lured numerous investments and business opportunities to the city..