Treasures,Pleasures,Leisures

Real joy is within.It is an experience no one can afford to buy.It comes from unexpected circumstance.Found in unusual places.The treasures found during your leisure beach walks on holidays gives inner pleasure that it becomes  therapy for your whole being.Most of the people who spends most of their time along the seashore are the ones who feels good and healthy.It isn't a wonder most of us prefers and longs to be by the beach for
a cool and relaxing holiday.

CHOCOLATE HILLS,BOHOL,PHILIPPINES

The world famous Chocolate Hills of Bohol,Philippines.Thousands of  natural hills so green during wet sea

son and so brown during dry season that they look like" chocolates" thus the name Chocolate Hills. These used to be considered as one of the seven wonders of the world.Throughout the years thousands of tourists both locals and foreign flow in steadily just to find out how amazing these hills came to be.The professionalism of the local Boholanos in welcoming visitors is quite exemplary so that the experience is one so memorable you want to stay longer to enjoy the peace and beauty.

PHILIPPINE MAYON VOLCANO,World's Most Perfect Cone Shape Volcano

For your next holiday try it near a volcano while by the seashores!!This time you shoot two birds with one
stone.You get the best of both worlds if not all in one.From delicious food,blue seas,green meadows,malls(yes,I said Mall),kind people,souvenirs,so many fine places to stay,landmarks to explore..to name a few.

TAAL VOLCANO and TAAL LAKE(a volcano within a lake)

Mountain Resorts are equally fascinating, exhilarating and invigorating as is the Beach Resorts. The mountain
views,mountain breezes,mountain lakes and hot springs not to mention the awesomeness of the feeling of
being on top of the world!The drive along the zigzag roads passing through fruit stall upon fruit stall.The landscape so panoramic with flowers in blooms.Meadows with animals grazing unmindful of your approach.
Tall trees like towers of evergreens.How lovely it is just taking time to listen to the birds chirping while trying
to absorb the bounty of nature in your surroundings.Then the mountain food so palatable!Oh,wish to stay
here forever and forever.

Argao Town,Cebu Province,Philippines

My mother was born before WWII to one of the prominent families from this quiet town Argao.She was the fourth child of eleven so that I had a grand and wonderful memory growing up amongst twenty-eight grandchildren.The grand ancestral house was by the sea,right in the middle of seemingly unendless seashores with only two or three neighbors but miles apart as far as I could recall.There was the Library where Grandpa types most of the time that I thought he didn't know how to handwrite.A huge black upright piano where my Aunt would play while we dance.A violin we were not to touch.A Big Ben so scary at night especially when it strikes at midnight.My mother's bicycle and roller skates when she was young still functional.Huge veranda overlooking Grandmas garden of exotic plants.Beyond is the horizon all our own from sunrise to sunset. Church was Sunday mornings and Wednesday afternoons where all of us dressed up with matching colors from the ribbons on our head down to our shoes.Breakfast was 7AM by 9AM what a crowd we all are swimming to our hearts delight till we hear the bell calling us for lunch.Siesta follows then tea time then to the playgrounds.Today, we crave for the typical delightful indulgence our Grandma lovingly lavished us. The beach have so many stories to tell especially the night games of" hide and seek" by the beach.Yes, the pleasures we treasure beyond measure!

TROPICAL FRUITS

Fruits in the Tropics have the unique certain delicious taste because of the equal proportion they get  from the rain and the sun the whole year round.The climate is very desirable" not too hot not too cold," so that their blooms and their growth steadily develop throughout the year unhampered.The equal supply of the mountain and sea breezes as well as the equal twelve hours day and night make the concoction perfect!No wonder so many would strive to visit this Island Paradise to taste the blissful life in the Tropics.