Believe me, we had years of no communication and no simple date out, but, still we have closeness to each other. Reunited with my grade school friends and this is, TRUE friendship.
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| Cintai's Coritos Garden, Main Attraction, The Portal Door |
I'm with my grade school best friends. We decided to have a reunion and plan anywhere or even just to have a cup of coffee, but we decided to make it special, because, our last bonding, I guess, it was 4 years ago. My friend got the idea of this cute and simple package from unlitravel by unliimagine. @TravelPHMadeEasy on facebook.
We paid only for Php 1,500.00/pax, for a 3/pax group. A day tour Balinese experience of Lipa, Batangas City. Our package includes...
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| Bee Farm |
Our day tour was on Sunday, so it has no hustle for managing our time. Our first stop was Bee farm. It was a free stopover, (only if there is no heavy traffic in EDSA.) They are selling honey in a jar/bottle starting at the price of Php 250/300.00 (estimated). We are 14 pax in a Grandia van plus a driver and a tour guide.
Marian Orchard
This is the first and one the main destination of our itinerary. A Catholic theme park. It's a huge garden of a Station of the Cross, approximately, an entire hill.
Cintai Corito's Garden
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| The Portal Door (Front side) |
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| The Portal Door (back side) |
At exactly, 12 noon, we're at the main attraction of the tour. We headed to Cintai Corito's Garden not far from Marian Orchard. It is time for our hotel buffet lunch and garden tour. It is a 7 hectare property landscape garden with villas, swimming pools, free roaming animals and other amenities. This huge and majestic Balinese styled door is the entrance to the air conditioned room good enough for all kinds of events.
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| Pavilion Tresna (exterior) |
This is the Pavilion Tresna, the lunch buffet venue. I had gotten here once when my cousin had their wedding celebration. It was more romantic when it is night time. Glad I saw the beauty of this place at day time.
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| Pavilion Tresna (interior) |
After we had lunch, we have 2 hours of free roam in the designated visitor area for picture taking and relaxation.
If you want to avail their daytour pool package of Php 1,850.00/pax, you have to book at the hotel reception not in this travel agency. Obviously, our package is mainly for Cintai Corito's Garden lunch buffet only. The transportation does not include in their package. website: coritosgarden.com
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| The Elephant Portal |
This is the Elephant portal, another entrance for in-house guest near at the parking area.
After 3 hours (estimated time) fun and relaxation in Cintai Corito's Garden, we headed to our next stop, Dreamland arts and crafts cafe. It is the 1 of 2 last stops, the other 2/2 last stop (which does not include in our itinerary but considered for pastry souvenirs.) was Rowena's Pasalubong and Restaurant, of course to buy "pasalubong".
Dreamland arts and crafts cafe
Is located at Calamba Road, Tagaytay City. It's not only for a place of coziness and nice treats, but they are selling crafted souvenirs as well.
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| The Dreamland Arts and Cafe (upper deck dining area) |
And our merienda food (afternoon tea) by our own expense. Let me say this for you guys, it is quite pricey for their servings. Good thing, I brought "baon" Lays chips and bought Php30.00 for cheese dip. We ordered Beefy Veggie Nachos for Php 120.00 and Indie Minty Strawberry for Php 200.00/pitcher.
Those are Dreamcatchers behind us are for sale. Ranging for Php 100-300.00 depending on a size. The setting of the cafe is really cute, though. We are actually dining at the upper deck, few steps up of the half of the cafe room (only if you can imagine what I mean.) with 6 more cute small tables and lots of floor pillows.
And yay!!! It was quite satisfactory for the price but very reasonable and It was all worth it, because our main goal is to see each other again and to dine-in at Cintai Corito's Garden. Hoping that we were dropped off in a place near the overlooking view of Taal Volcano, but we were not. I think their daytour package and the idea of the itinerary is themed for something about arts and crafts. Maybe that's the reason!!!
Tips:
Bring "baon" such as chips and cookies.
Extra Shirts
Rubber Shoes for convenience.
Extra money for souvenir/pasalubong.
Put sunblock on.
Umbrella & pants on for allergies.
Toiletries
Personal care products
Toiletries
Personal care products
Medicine (in case)
P.S. This is my very 1st blog ever. I have not planned making this since the day of our tour. I just tried to make it happen and to share my unique experience. Apologies for incomplete pictures and thoughts.
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