WE LIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES SINCE 1990. WE THINK WE KNOW IT WELL! WE ALWAYS LIKE IT'S MADNESS...
...WHAT IS PHILIPPINES ?
Discover the Philippines in some images ! Description of the country - Manila, Cebu, "the queen city of the South", rice plantations in terraces of Banaue, Boracay, Palawan... etc...
Here are some Interesting Places ... addresses... and prices
 
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It's Islands

With some nautical miles away from the second city of the Country, CEBU City, located at the geographical center of the country, still 4000 uninhabited islands await your visit. White sand beaches, corals, coconuts, bougainviliers, rocks of marble, eagles of sea, multicoloured parrots, waterfalls and rivers, are the ornaments. Dolphins, lines mantas, hammerheads, fish balloons, let us espadons and whales, are the guards.

It's inhabitants

Proud and independent, they made a success of the challenge to preserve their identity in spite of 350 years of Spanish colonization, an American occupation of more than fifty years, and the Japanese oppression of the second world war.

The Filipinos are got excited of Freedom. They are democratic in the same bases of their culture. Curious, men or women observe that or what comes from abroad, but seldom change anything with their traditions.
Catholics for 90% of them, they are also very superstitious.
Smiling, spontaneous, accessible, generous like they were our ancestors have a "visceral tact" which surprises the European who I remained still a little, even after all these years spent here.
Much of them is ready to travel anywhere in the world, to flee poverty of a bloodless country and without industry, but always returns, in their native village where them heart is enracinée.
The women of the Philippines raise this exceptional smile "of love of the life" that nothing can remove to them! In all Asia, they have the reputation to be "most female of the women".
It is they which rêgnent on a company which, in spite of certain misleading appearances, remained matriarcale.

Its landscapes

Of its majestic volcanos, with its deep bays, of its incredible rice plantations in existing terraces since two thousand years, with its still virgin tropical forests, of its rivers falling since vertiginous heights in crystalline lakes, with its rivers under navy dug in the purest granite, and where fly of the single birds in the world.
The Philippines offer a ground of scenic contrasts really exceptional.

Its "sea-oceans" of edge
Not less than three large seas border the Philippines, each one bringing its single characteristics in this country: the Pacific Ocean, China Sea, Sea of Sulu.
The large Pacific with its larger pits border the part Is islands, and of him monsoons of North East or South East regulating reach us the seasons.
The China Sea which makes of the Philippines the "neighbor" of the other countries of the South-East Asia... crossed to foot a few millenia ago.
Not very deep in general, along the Wests coast of the Philippines, it makes screen with the large tropical rains which concentrate on Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Sea of Sulu that have it could call the "Sea of the Atolls", because as of the its funds going up of under the sea like escarpées mountains, lets appear on the surface a multitude small ilôts, or reefs.

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Can be is it to allow him to breathe a little and of réfreiner the dash as of the its underwater volcanos still deadened to spit the "fire of the belly of the ground".

Hundreds and hundreds of Atolls, more beautiful the ones than the others still remain to be discovered in the years to come to in love with tropical islands which one day will come there from the whole world.
I visited this area several times, but had until now, to give up me installing there.
"It would be necessary to be Robinson Crusoe to do it..."
And Robinson was a shipwrecked man !
Without any doubt that the carrying large planes - reducing the cost of the transport - will facilitate the thing, but it is necessary also that for this part very in the South of the Philippines, the Peace which never existed
there between the communities Chrétiennes and Moslem, finally settles there.

Its inland seas

Only genius of God - Who that It is - could conceive such a tangle of inland seas protecting at the same time the ethnos groups from his inhabitants, avoiding the conflicts of "Provinces", and allowing each one to freely travel and of living of his benefits.
Natural lightning conductor vis-a-vis with the typhoons, they divert moreover the fury of the winds by obliging them to weaken by run up the successive ramparts of the islands which they lodge. Delimiting the influence of the habits and keeping them in their own environments, these seas of which the number exceed the dozen, have their own currents inter-oceans and of tides allowing single richness the "the world" of its fauna and its flora.
Soft or hard corals and fish of all sizes and all colors make the happiness of most difficult plungers amateurs or professionals... even and especially when they think of having "all considering".
.../!\ IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR SAFETY IN THE PHILIPPINES /!\
You should know a certain number of things which the media took care well not to mention at the time of the business still relatively recent (April 1997) of the ôtages kidnapped - on the island of SIPADAN in Malaysia by rebels of Groups ABU SAYAF.
It was certainly easier to draw the attention to the fate of some unhappy Europeans, certainly, by throwing the anathema on a whole nation and a whole people - free to make him lose the survival which was to him, partly, brought by tourism - which to relativize an event while describing some objectively, the causes and the consequences possible.
That there are ramifications and contacts with the AL-QAIDA Network between these Moslem rebels Filipinos is completely possible, but Malaysia, Indonesia, Bruneï, and Lybie always financed and/or provided to weapons to their "Moslem Brothers" Filipinos, since the end of the second world war.
This is why the American G.I' S, have been here for several months under cover of a "drive" of the Forces Armed with the Philippines but in reality... to be of course that certain soldiers Filipinos of high row will not touch to any more them dîme on behalf of the rebels, each time that they let them escape.

The problem is however not only because of this latent corruption. Moslems Filipinos - which does not represent that 5 % of the population of the Philippines fight for an independence of the Area which they live for 90 % of them, since time or the Spaniards started the conquest of the Philippines. There is celà 425 years! This Area, for a part among it only, is indeed dangerous but much more because of conflicts of interests and political competitions between Chrétiens and Moslems that for "religious" reasons purely.

It is extremely localised and is also far from the central part of the Philippines, where we live - that Algiers is of Marseilles. The Government Filipino does not let besides the foreigners there go, unless he are not Membres of a humane Organization, or missionaries religious. Very few Moslems live in other areas of the Philippines, and they in general were extremely well integrated.

As for the other risks which you could incur while coming to the Philippines - voyouteries, pickpockets, verbal aggressions or physics... attacks. They are, and you can me believe on word, hundred times less, and I weigh my words, that those which you risk tous.les.jours in our "soft France".
...OUR ITINERAIRES, CIRCUITS, AND STAYS HAVE BEEN STUDY, GRIND, AMELIORES, FOR TEN YEARS
During the first three years that we passed here to prepare them, we went everywhere. We know now, y to have posed the foot, more than 4000 islands among the 7106 which account this archipelago. The Programs that we propose to you allow a real discovery of the Philippines, and privilege the direct contacts with the populations. They support your search for "ADVENTURE AUTHENTICATES" by avoiding you "the too frequent galères", and in which certain too credulous holiday makers find themselves who make the error to buy Circuits or Stays in certain Agencies based in Europe.
These Agencies, being prosperous and highly respected however , very often know of the Philippines only what they foresaw - or which was shown to them - at the time of a voyage one week organized to their attention (discrete and current way "to lubricate the papatte"... but they is always you who pay with final) by more concerned financial groups of their interests than to make you make a success of your holidays.
We refuse since always working with these Agencies.
They are very badly represented on the spot, and by correspondents only anxious to recover commissions on the complementary services and the excursions which these Agencies put them in position to sell to you.
More discrete, more underhand, universalization also exists in the "field of the Voyage"!
...OUR PROGRAMS SPECIALISES IN THE UNDERWATER PLONGEE
Are opened with all the categories of plungers - whatever their level -
The framing we have makes it possible to train "individually" the beginner, and to assist the plunger confirmed until him to make reach the "Professional" level if it wishes it.
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