International Living, Marriage & Travel

Pension houses (some known as boarding house or small hotel) are the best alternative when the hotels are fully booked during peak seasons. Daily rates are from 700 pesos to 800 pesos for single rooms, 1,000 pesos to 1,300 pesos for double rooms. The rooms have air-con and a private toilet and bath....

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Travelling by water is the main way of inter-island travel here in the Philippines. There are many modes of water transportation available, ranging from high-class, air-conditioned ferries to small bangkas or pumpboats. Most of the Filipinos in the cities travel by sea to go their own provinces espe...

There are between 120 and 175 languages spoken in the Philippines wherein Filipino in the form of Tagalog serves as the official language and English is the second official language. About 55% of the Filipinos speak Tagalog. There are 9 dialects that are widely spoken, including Ilocano (the languag...

This is one of a Filipino version of 'dining out': A stick of small pork barbecue costs 10 pesos each (about $0.25 US). Pork chops and chicken barbecue sticks costs about 50 pesos ($1.25 US). Grilled Squid is 90 pesos to 100 pesos depending on the size, and fish is 50 pesos to 100 ($1.25 to $2.50 US...