Tagaytay Road Trip (April 14-15, 2012)

As part of our effort to "de-stress", 2 of my officemates and I went for an overnight trip to Tagaytay last weekend. This has been carefully planned not only to just relax ourselves but also to make enjoyable for AJ since they know that i was planning to bring AJ along.

It was a very nice trip. We went to Residence Inn Tagaytay Zoo, an interactive zoo where you are allowed to feed the animals (except for the tigers), you can also have your pictures taken with a tiger cub for only 50 pesos (Except that AJ doesn't want to go near the tiger cub but she had her picture taken with a parrot instead)

They also have an animal show, wherein they introduces an exotic animal to the audience and tells us their attributes, their behavior & their habitat. They are also asking for volunteers for an opportunity to see the animals up close. They are also allowed to touch the animals! AJ has volunteered, and I was actually worried that she'll be afraid when they showed an Iguana and put her on AJ's hands.

But she has become fascinated. She never cried, instead she stroked the Iguana. What a brave girl! as a reward, the animal show host gave her discount cards to all zoomanity affiliates (zoobic zafari, zoo&zip residence inn, paradizoo & etc)!

After that, we rode a shuttle and went to paradizoo, another interactive zoo/farm in Tagaytay. We have been greeted by a guide who showed us all the animals, their organic vegetable and fruit garden, a pet cemetery, they also have a butterfly and bee garden! So Nice, we just have to have an umbrella since it was a 7 km walk (i think) overall.

Here's AJ with the Llama in Paradizoo:

AJ feeding the goat:

We went back to residence Inn and allowed AJ to have her very first horse ride!

Entrance fee at Residence inn is only P299 (already includes the entrance to Paradizoo. Children 3 feet and below are free!

after that, we stayed at Hangin Garden for an afternoon siesta. It was like a retreat house. It was a very nice place especially when you need some real peace and quiet. The owner, Ms. Pinky, is a very sweet and accomodating person, she prepared our dinner and had AJ's dinner free of charge. I love thier tarragon chicken. SOOO Delicious!

We roamed around tagaytay area for a nice and deep breath of fresh air. We love the chill especially after experiencing manila's summer heat.

We spent the night in Hangin garden and went back to manila early sunday morning to attend to a baptismal in St. Joseph Church (Bamboo Organ Las Pinas).

I really enjoyed our road trip. I bet we'll be doing this again soon!