March 4th, 2009 by admin

The trip last week-end brought me to pass by new Philippines places and also stepped and stayed more than  a day in Dapitan City and Dipolog City.  Both places are situated in Zamboanga del Norte.

The furthest i went from Ozamis is Clarin.  So this time, i have gone by more than clarin and these places are the following:

Tudela

Panaon

Alloran

Oroquieta City

Lopez Jaena

Plaridel

Dipolog City – Linabo Peak
(at the foot of the peak only)
Valdia Gardens

Dapitan City -
Boulevard
Dakak
Rizal Shrine

After almost 5 hours travel by van, we arrived at this spot:

at the Valdia Gardens:

at the foot of Linabo Peak:

From the Peak we went off to Dapitan to see the Shrine and take rest for the night. This is the only modern building inside. It houses memorablias of Dr. Jose Rizal.

At the side of the above building is his statue. I think am an inch or 2 inches taller than him.

In the evening we were given a short time to go around the entertainment area. There were also botiques around.

This is not really a park but id like to call i ta mini Rizal Park because it was in this area Dr. Jose Rizal made a map of Mindanao used to teach his students geography.

Then from that park we went off to — PARADISE! Truly a paradise because the road is not nice. The road going to Dakak is through the mountains. Long and narrow and there are areas that are also steep. But since they are constructing the road (road widening) for improvement, there were big boulders along the way and it was so mighty dusty.

Some of these are just teaser photos. Will make an individual post of particular place for travel information purposes.