I've decided to start the year right by traveling to the place closest to my heart - LAGUNA. Well, I'm not a native of Laguna but then my family have moved here since high school in Sta. Rosa. Then, we moved to another location in Alaminos. The first time we moved here men I'm going crazy! From the accustomed traffic and busy streets of Manila and Parañaque (where we used to live before) then off to a jungle man! I can say that its a total shock. After awhile I was able to get used to the atmosphere and then now I can finally say that I love this place. At 8pm you wouldn't see people on the streets anymore, everyone is inside their houses and at 9pm everyone's asleep. Then in the morning at 4am you'd here people selling "pandesal" and sometimes the loud buzz of motorcycle selling vegetables and fish. Other than that you'd hear people already sweeping the streets, roaming around, clanging of plates as they prepare.
So much for the introduction, let's get into the travel part. I've search on the internet some places to visit in Laguna because I was curious which places can people go and visit here. Some of friends were asking me to tour them but then I don't know anything about my own place. So I've decided to start my travel here in my hometown. I told my college friends (tin, nina, espie) to help me explore Calamba) we went to check Los Baños and Pansol (famous for hot springs) and check out the pools and room rates there. Room ranges from 200-500/head aside from the pool entrance of 80-100 you can haggle with them especially when its not peak season, by the way we went last month, so we were able to get a room of 1700 king size bed, aircon, bathroom, plus swimming - not bad but then I think I could get it more cheaper if I tried to haggle more but then at that time we were tired and it was already 9 in the evening so we just took the best available pool villa.
In the morning, we decided to go to the house of our national hero - Dr. Jose P. Rizal in Calamba.
It's already renovated and it looks bigger outside but then when you go in it on has 2 bedrooms, 1 big dining area, a lounge, a small kitchen and a balcony. The typical house during the Spanish time. It was stated that Rizal's house was considered to be the largest in Calamba before so you'd see that Rizal's family was well-off that time. It was the dream of his father to build this type of house.
So much for the introduction, let's get into the travel part. I've search on the internet some places to visit in Laguna because I was curious which places can people go and visit here. Some of friends were asking me to tour them but then I don't know anything about my own place. So I've decided to start my travel here in my hometown. I told my college friends (tin, nina, espie) to help me explore Calamba) we went to check Los Baños and Pansol (famous for hot springs) and check out the pools and room rates there. Room ranges from 200-500/head aside from the pool entrance of 80-100 you can haggle with them especially when its not peak season, by the way we went last month, so we were able to get a room of 1700 king size bed, aircon, bathroom, plus swimming - not bad but then I think I could get it more cheaper if I tried to haggle more but then at that time we were tired and it was already 9 in the evening so we just took the best available pool villa.
In the morning, we decided to go to the house of our national hero - Dr. Jose P. Rizal in Calamba.
It's already renovated and it looks bigger outside but then when you go in it on has 2 bedrooms, 1 big dining area, a lounge, a small kitchen and a balcony. The typical house during the Spanish time. It was stated that Rizal's house was considered to be the largest in Calamba before so you'd see that Rizal's family was well-off that time. It was the dream of his father to build this type of house.
1st floor- more of history and pictures of Rizal when he was young.
Cooking time! Rizal's actual kitchen
Bed of Rizal??
Cooking time! Rizal's actual kitchen
There was an addition part to their house, which is then turned as a small museum. Here you can see Rizal's pictures and memorabilia's.
There was no one around that time, so we have asked Rizal to join us in our group picture and he was very cooperative. =) If this is a replica of him, then we have concluded that this is the original height of Rizal hmmmmm....as I recall in our Rizal subject in college, it was believed that Rizal was not really as tall as he sounds to be. That's why they have given him the term "small but terrible".
to be continued....
to be posted excarsion in Laguna-Quezon....
to be posted excarsion in Laguna-Quezon....
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