zoobic adventure

We planned this trip 3rd week of February, over lunch. Through Rizza’s sister, we already have a booked reservation in the Holiday Inn Hotel in Clark. After more than a month of preparations, planning, itinerary, etc. finally we’re off to our Subic-Clark Summer Trip 09….

April 3, Nayong Pilipino and Clark Museum
The powerpop gurlz with a companion plus the driver left the office at around 5:30am. Breakfast at Tapa King along NLEX. By 9am, we are already in Nayong Pilipino in Clark (we are soooooooooo early, we’re the only visitors). I wasn’t able to visit the old Nayong Pilipino in Manila so I cannot compare the two. Based on what I have seen, I think the Nayong Pilipino in Clark used to be a very, very nice place to visit. Anyone can picture that it used to be a very busy tourist destination. We are maybe too late to see the place at its best, what we have got are few good materials that shows the beauty of the country. Some materials are just remains of once beautiful work of art. Hopefully, the management will have time and budget to resurrect the place, to do some repairs and repainting. By the way, you can visit the place for free.

We next dropped by the Clark Museum with an affordable Php30 entrance fee. We have roamed inside the museum comfortably because it’s air conditioned (the best!). Since Clark used to be a military base, most of the displays are on histories, military activities, and weapons during that time. Also, part of the exhibits are the pictures of the place when the Mt. Pinatubo erupted; there are also big pictures that shows large smokes from all over the place of that awful day.

Then, we proceeded to the Holiday Inn Hotel to have an early check-in. The room is extra big enough for us; we are in the 4th floor, overlooking the big pool. Since we left Manila early, we all decided to take a nap. Then by 2pm, we’re off to Subic to buy tickets for the ocean adventure and zoobic safari the next day. But before we even reached the two destinations, we almost all went crazy, hahahaha. We lost our way going to SCTEX, we got confused of the road signs, and imagine that we crawled an almost 10meters expressway backwards. We finally found the entry point to SCTEX, and to my surprise this expressway is toooooooo looooooong, we traveled more than an hour (I think!) to reach Subic exit. We again got lost in the Subic town proper and got caught by traffic enforcer. We had our lunch at 3pm, very late lunch!!! Then, we went on to the ocean adventure and zoobic safari. On our way back, we encountered a problem with the L300, good thing there’s a mechanic in Yokohama. We traveled again more than an hour to Clark, dropped by the SM to buy food for dinner. After dinner, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

April 4, Ocean Adventure and Zoobic Safari
We left Clark at 7:30am and reached Subic by 9:30. The Ocean Adventure opens at 10, so we took pictures while waiting. We watched 3 shows: Sea Lion Marine Patrol (sea lion show), High Dive show, and the Dolphin show. The High Dive show is their newest attraction, there are 5 acrobats/divers who showed their talents… one of them dived backward from as high as 85ft. For the dolphin show, I really wonder on the intellect of dolphins trained to act the way they are asked to do. It’s just amazing that somehow at a certain point of our co-existence, humans and animals understand each other.

to be continued….