- Arrive Manila.
Experience a warm welcome upon arrival as lovely Filipina girls greet you "Mabuhay and offer your fragrant "sampaguita" leis.

- Transfer to The Manila Hotel in air-conditioned motor-coaches where a VIP reception awaits you. Refresing welcome drinks are offered during key distribution.

- Evening: Welcome Dinner at the Patio of Casa Manila
The PATIO is a fully enclosed open courtyard with a fountain in the middle which will be decorated with tropical flowers. The garden is decorated with flowers and tiny fairy lights. Savor the sumptuous buffet of Spanish-Filipino dishes while being entertained by roving guitarists. Highlight of the evening is a garden presentation where the story of Intramuros unfolds in a spectacular pageant of Hispanic costumes, music and dances.

- Overnight Manila Hotel.

DAY 2

   

- Buffet breakfast at the hotel.

- 0900H Pagsanjan Tour with Lunch and Boatride
located in Laguna province, an hour and a half drive southeast of Manila, is the town of Pagsanjan, site of the famous Pagsanjan Falls and Rapids.

- As you enter the Pagsanjan port, young girls and boys greet you with drum and lyre. Take tricycles for a short ride to Pagsanjan Rapids Resort where you will be offered a refreshing "buco" or coconut juice.

- Transfer to dugout canoes, manned by able boatmen for the upstream ride to the falls, located amid a 300 ft high gorge. Spend some time at the falls for a swim or a raft ride under the falls. Return to the resort by riding the currents of the rapids with your boatmen skillfuly guiding canoe. "Al fresco" lunch at the resort before returning to Manila.

- Evening: "Romance of the Hands" at Kamayan Restaurant Treat yourself to a succulent Filipino dinner - what better way to eat Filipino food but kamayan style or eating with your bare hands.

- Overnight Manila Hotel.

DAY 3

   

- Early breakfast at the hotel.
After a hearty breakfast, depart for Baguio on an air-conditioned coach. Baguio is approximately 6 hours drive from Manila.

- En route, stop at Bacolor to see the sunken town buried by the "lahar". Lahar is the gritty sand that Pinatubo spewed into the atmosphere when it erupted in 1990. Drive through the north expressway to Bacolor, Pampanga. This town is amongst hundreds of towns and villages which have been devastated by Mt. Pinatubo's eruption. Tour the village on foot and visit the basilica which is now 3/4 buried in lahar. See the remaining roofs of houses covered by lahar.

- After the tour, proceed to Clark for lunch at Bahay Kubo, a typical native restaurant.

- Arrive Baguio in the afternoon. Upon arrival, direct city tour.

- Visit the St. Louis filigree shop and Mines View Park, a panoramic view of Baguio's mines, where gold, silver and other ores are quarried. Then on to the Cathedral sitting on a hill rising above the city; the Mansion House of the past presidents of the Philippines. The public market is your last stop before you check-in at the hotel.

- Check-in hotel.

- Dinner and overnight at hotel.

DAY 4

- Breakfast at hotel.

- Depart for Mt. Data.

- Arrive Mt. Data early afternoon. Check-in Mt. Data Lodge, decorated in rustic style 7,000 ft. above sea level, tucked in a rising wave formidable mountains.

- Go trekking to the nearby villages and view the vegetable terrace of the "Igorots" where cabbages, stringbeans, potatoes, peas, carrots are grown.

- Evening: Dinner and overnight at Mt. Data Lodge.

DAY 5

   

- Early breakfast at the hotel.

- Check-out hotel.

- Depart for Sagada.

- Sagada's attraction include a beautiful landscape, excellent hiking amid pine trees, stonewalled rice - terraces and cave-studded limestone outcrops, a cool climate, friendly local people and vestiges of the old "Igorot" culture, including burial caves. The locals of Sagada are call "Igorots". The "Igorots" are proud and independence-loving people with a rich cultural past deeply embedded in its people's present way of living.

Drive along the winding mountain trails onto Bontoc, Bontoc is the Mountain Province's capital and crossroads. Visit the Bontoc Museum founded by the Belgian sisters.

- Proceed to Banaue. The spectacle is breathtaking, whole chains of mountains terraced from top to bottom for the cultivation of rice; sculptured and carved from the steep mountainsides by the Igorots with their bare hands and crude stone implements centuries ago.

- Check-in Banaue Hotel.

- Dinner and overnight at Banaue Hotel.

DAY 6

- Breakfast at the hotel.

- Bangaan/Viewpoint Tour.
Board local jeepney for a ride to a native village. After some time in the village, continue to a vantage point along the main road to view and admire this 2,000 year old man-made wonder. The Banaue Rice Terreces, if place end to end, would reach half-way around the globe.

- Take lunch with the Barangay Captain at Viewpoint. Proceed to the town's public market to mingle with the local people and view the vast array of native handicraft. Take time to visit the schools where you will be met with friendly smiles by the school children.

- Eve: Dinner at the hotel.
During dinner, witness Ifugao tribal dances performed by the young and old from the nearby villages.

- Overnight Banaue Hotel.

DAY 7

- Breakfast at hotel.

- After a hearty breakfast, check-out of hotel and depart for Manila on air-conditioned coach.

- Arrive Manila in the evening.

- Check-in Manila Hotel

- Dinner and overnight at Manila Hotel.