Calamba...The birth place of Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Laguna Escapade Part 1 - Calamba (Nov. 13, 2011)

Calamba City is a first class component city located in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Situated only 54 kilometers south of Manila, about an hour by chartered bus, Calamba City is a popular tourist destination with its hot spring resorts, most of the resorts are located in Barangay Pansol and Barangay Bucal. The total count of the resorts in Calamba City is 661. Calamba City is known as the Resort Capital of the Philippines because of the resorts and hot springs located at the City. (via wikipedia.org)

This tour was supposed to be held in Tagaytay but because one of my officemates invited us in their house, we decided to postponed our Tagaytay trip and headed to Laguna instead. 

Itinerary:

House of Dr. Jose P. Rizal

St. John the Baptist Cathedral

Officemate's house (in my next post)

Lake hopping (in my next post)

Underground Cemetery (in my next post)

HM Bus Station in Cubao. Meeting time at 7am but as usual, some are late... < I came in the meeting place at 7:05am, counted as "not late" un! :) >

Tryke Ride! Who says we are sosyal? We are as simple as everybody else. Walang basagan ng trip. :)

Rizal's house in Calamba, Laguna

R'team + A'team = Happiness

Staircase inside the house... 

Living Room

 

Entrance to the dining room.

 Dining Area 1...

Dining Area 2... yeah! I noticed that too, they have so many dining area. LOL

Kitchen Area or Comedor...

Master's Bedroom...

Bahay-kubo. Where Pepe and his sisters are playing when they were young.

Statue of young Pepe... located in the garden of their house.

Next stop... San Pablo.

While everyone is busy watching the Pacquiao-Marquez fight... we are invading the province of Laguna! :)