Driving towards our next destination from Oviedo, we stopped by to see this amazing natural wonder!
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We drove outside the city to go to Peterhof and visited the Peterhof Palace. Since it was a very long palace, I took a video from the back of the Palace:-)
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We were not allowed to take photos inside the palace
You have to wear shoe covers to walk inside the Palace! Good idea to preserve the floors
But I have lots of pictures of the beautiful garden and fountains of the palace!
A super big and beautiful garden
View of the Palace from the center of the garden, standing on one of the bridges
Gulf of Finland
Christmas Trees all over!! 🙂
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This is my first time to explore Bryant Park. We always pass it, but we never stop by.
It’s beautiful 🙂
Click below to go to their website
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Thank you Tito Manny for sharing your beautiful garden with Heart2Heart!
Tito Manny has many collections and one of them is Bonsai trees!
From the living room leading to the main garden
What an amazing collection! This is serious 🙂 He has 70 bonsai trees! They come from the Northern part of the Philippines. He started out with 7 trees and the collection just grew and grew
Tito Manny personally cares for his bonsai trees. They have to be watered three times a day with salt water which they have to get from Manila Bay and have to be trimmed
Every three to four months, someone comes over from out of the town to do the trimming
Going down to the garden by the pool
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Beautiful video produced by Hindy Weber Tantoco and directed by Dondi Narciso for Sta. Elena
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The next day I wanted to go back to the path to the Lagoon restaurant since I saw a grotto and a cave. I was scared to go at night 🙂 Hmmm…looks like someone is setting up for a BBQ
The Grotto
Which has a small chapel
Pathway leading to the grotto
and to the beach
Then the island cave
Looks like a romantic dinner set up by the Island cave 🙂
It was lighted at night so maybe its nicer at night
Wow how romantic! 🙂
On the way back to the villa we saw this guy trying to catch something
Sea urchin for our dinner!! 🙂
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I am so excited and looking forward to the upcoming Balik Bukid this April 28! SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!
I was able to go to the first one which I truly loved
previous entry: Balik Bukid June 21, 2012
but I missed the one last November, so here are some photos from the last one by Popi Laudico
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And we finally arrived at the airport
We all fit in the Heli together with the pilot
We were greeted by Boly, the General Manager of Balesin. Dad and Mom know him because he is the husband of one of our Managers in Starbucks, Macy, who is based in Cebu
Plenty things to do in the island!
Beautiful landscaping
Clubhouse
Very interesting to meet Marco Diaz, nephew of Gloria Diaz and cousin of Illac Diaz. Marco was the one who developed the island and made it self sustainable. He told me that what he does is the same as what Illac does for the poor though he does it as a job and for resorts all over the world. He used to work for the Taj group
We did not go anywhere by land except to the club house for lunch and to this very beautiful and humongous Balete tree! Tito Rob made sure he brought us to see this. He told us a story about the Banyan tree in Hong Kong that was in between the Conrad Hotel and the Island Shangri-la Hotel. The Banyan Tree there is known to be the most expensive tree in the world since the two hotels had to build around the tree to preserve it. And Tito Robbie said that this Banyan tree in Balesin is even bigger than that one in Hong Kong
Only Smart network available on the island!
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