Tagaytay

Tagaytay

Uncle Tino who is a medical doctor and is the brother of Aunty Nene works at a Veteran’s Hospital and took some time to take us sightseeing. His place of choice ~ Tagaytay. The drive to Tagaytay felt long as it is pretty far south of Manila, but still on the main island of Luzon. This city is up and coming. It is apparent when driving as there are many subdivisions and hotels being erected. What sets this place apart is the elevation. Not sure how high we were, it must have been a few thousand feet up there. The city is literally built on a ridge and creating a money view of Taal Lake and the Taal Volcano which is the smallest volcano in the world. This place is surreal, I think its because the city is built on a thin ridge with some vertical cliffs around us. However, when we got there the fog was so thick that we couldn’t see a view of the lake. I left the view to my imagination as I’ve gotten good at that since the weather in Hawaii presents the same problem from time to time.

We ate at this high class restaurant called Josephine where I decided to try bangus, it’s a type of milkfish. Honestly, this fish is the da bomb, so meaty and succulent. Freakin’ ridiculous! The service was slow which was expected. America is such a demanding country of customers that we expect too much of others. The quality of the food however, is top notch. Too bad the food in Hawaii wasn’t this good. The Filipino's take a lot of pride in quality of work. You can tell as the food they put out was amazing.

After we finished eating, Uncle Tino took us to a private area of Tagaytay where people with guns were manning a guard shack. They didn’t like the idea of letting a taxi cab into their property, so D had to stay back while Uncle Tino had to make two trips. He took us to a Golf Resort Club where he has membership. [Must cost big money.] We saw a sign at the front saying that bodyguards need to check in before going onto the premises. This place is awesome! There were sport activities like a full on indoor basketball court, olympic size swimming pool, bowling alley, racket ball court, tennis court, on and on, and of course golf. We caught the skycab down to the other resort. Just then it started to rain heavy. Crazy rain! We went to another restaurant to eat dessert. Holy crap! I’m not lying that this dessert spread was amazing, look at the picture. After I ate my heart out and my belly full, we drove back because we needed to get to Manila by 6pm.

The place seems underrated. According to Uncle Tino, some of the richest and most famous people in the Philippines stay here to take a vacation.