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Star Cruises Superstar Virgo seen from the cable car from Sentosa Last weekend, I was invited by AirPhil Express to experience their  new AdvenTour Package offering they had call “Fly and Sail”. In partnership with Star Cruises , the Fly and Sail is a four-day Adventure Tour Package where once can Fly to Singapore and go for a cruise to Malaysia for only P24,888 per person. It’s my first time to actually try a cruise and it was pretty fun. I’ll be writing about the experience starting next week in ironwulf.net En Route . In the meantime if you would like to know more of the details, read on.

AirAsia Philippine's First Branded A320 Exciting travel times are ahead for us travelers as Low-cost Carrier giant expands its wings establishing its 13th hub in the Philippines. AirAsia has been in operation in DMIA (Diosdado Macapagal International Airport), Clark for many years now. I even remember having my first international flight via AirAsia to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from Clark. The difference now, is that AirAsia Philippines is co-owned and operated by Filipinos this time.

The Author blogging Last weekend, a Pinoy Travel Bloggers Forum was conducted by Blog And Soul . I was one of the panelist there along with Edgar Allan Zeta-Yap , Ivan Henares , James Betia and later joined by Gael Hilotin and facilitator Nina Fuentes . It was an interesting afternoon of discussion about different aspects of Travel Blogging (You could watch the recorded stream here). One interesting question specifically asked of me was “What are the top 5 or or 10 steps a new travel blogger MUST take to set up a unique travel website?” I thought it was a really good question especially for those new and starting out on Travel Blogging. I gave only 5 steps below.

Tawi-tawi on Trip Journal of CebuPacific Smile Cebu Pacific Airline will soon be flying to Tawi-tawi from Zamboanga starting this October. And to hype up the interest on the destination, CEB’s inflight Magazine Smile is giving you a glimpse of what’s in Tawi-tawi on their August-September 2011 issue. If you are flying CEB anytime these months, check out the magazine and flip over to the Trip Journal section where you could see a couple of my photos  used on the opener (The Balobok Rock Shelter ) and the destination guide ( Pagasinan Shipbuilding ) respectively.

An image documentation on Forest Carbon Measurement in Nueva Vizcaya I’ve been slowly rebuilding my galleries on my new photos page and prioritizing a lot of my works first as an opportunity to build a much decent portfolio of professional works . One project I really enjoyed working on before was the Primer on Forest and Climate Change in Nueva Vizcaya. Up now on the galleries are a few selected photos from the hundreds shot during that project. You can check the gallery here .