Travel

Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical  for any purpose and any duration, with or without any means of transport. The word originates from the Middle English word travailen (“to toil”), which comes from the Old French word travailler (“travail”).

“To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It’s designed to make its own people comfortable.”-Clifton Fadiman

Philippines have 7,100 islands during high tide while the 6 islets emerge in low tide. Almost 3,000 of these islets were named and the three biggest islands were Luzon Visayas and Mindanao. There are 17 regions from Batanes to Tawi-tawi .We all knew these at Grade school History Class. But do we get to travel in one or two of these regions in our country? Mohammed said “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” It saddens me that most of the intelligent people have travelled the whole world but never in our own country.  They’ve been around the world, maybe to the 7 continents,  most popular word tourist destinations but if you ask them how many regions have you seen and came to visit in the Philippines-they will probably look up and think or maybe bow down their head and start a new topic or maybe a better place to talk about, or worst they will excuse themselves and just leave you in a middle of a conversation. Foreigners come and go in our country. Tourist volume in the country’s major destinations from January to May 2010 totalled to 3.65 million for an increase of 5.37 % vis-à-vis the same period in 2009.  The movement of foreign tourists in key tourist areas expanded by 12.81% compared to the travel of domestic tourists which posted 2.12% growth.

There are a few travel television shows that help boost local tourism in our country. Now we have “Trip na Trip” A thrilling, exciting and fun-filled series of journeys and adventures, Fridays 12:00 midnight, over ABS-CBN Channel 2.Hosted by Kat De Castro, Uma Khouny, Jayson Gainza and Kian Kazemi. They feature places that are not so popular and they give the costing to their viewers so they can plan a cheap but fun trip with family and friends. Twenty four years ago there is “Travel Time” with Susan Calo-Medina, hailed as the Queen of Travel Shows in Television, she went to places like Bohol in 1989 who no one even bothered to visit at that time but look at it now. She also featured local delicacies in each of her destinations, thus promoting local tourism has been one of  her hobbies. Until now her show is aired on ANC, 9:30am every Saturdays. We all have a choice to explore, have fun and learn. We can have it all by travelling and consider OUTSHOUT COMMUNICATIONS’ “LIWALIW sa  LAGUNA” A Tour to Philippines’ heritage sites and nature’s best.

LIWALIW sa LAGUNA is a 2 day tour exploring heritage sites like,Old houses in Pila,  Nagcarlan’s Underground Cemetery,Liliw and Pakil’s Old churches,Wood carving s of Paete, San Pablo’s Seven lakes  and natural wonders like Pagsanjan and Majayjay Falls.It’s good to start a destination closer from home. Two three hours away from Manila you get to see breath taking view, scenic spots and Heritage sites from a a province full of legend, myths and history.

As the Queen of Travel Show ends her program, she leaves us with this spiel.  ”WAG MAGING DAYUHAN SA SARILING BAYAN”