The resort of Davao on the Philippine Islands is considered the most calm. If you speak for cleanliness, I can not imagine how it may not be calm here, because there is a striking nature, the purest beaches and friendly locals. The atmosphere in the resort, has a passive rest and this time I didn't even want to go looking for attractions, but to look here for what.
Our journey with the spouse has begun very standard, that is, with a visa. The crossing of the border, it was also the usual thing, that is, it is necessary to show its passport, tickets for a return trip and several non-standard confirmation of the fact that we and the spouse are financially ready for our vacation.
You can travel with you on a journey what is allowed by customs, that is, four hundred cigarettes or fifty cigars, as well as two liters of alcoholic beverages and ten thousand pesos. You can also take with you personal use, but only in reasonable quantities, in order not to have arisen. It is forbidden to import drugs, pornography and weapons, lottery tickets, slot machines, as well as plant saplings if you do not have a special certificate. From the territory of the country, it is impossible to export plants, wild animals and birds, antique products without special permission, gold products, as well as products from ivory and from rare wood species. And it is also impossible to export corals, the skin of pythons, some types of shells, certain varieties of orchids and shells of turtles.
Local currency - peso. I advise you to get this money in advance, since the exchange of Russian rubles to local pesos, upon arrival at the Philippine Islands, can be very problematic. No problem, change American dollars, euros and pounds sterling. By the way, dollars are practically in free circulation and even in stores, you can often see prices in dollars. If you want to change money, it is better to do it certainly in the bank. The course is somewhat different from the official, but still not a lot. Local banks, work from nine in the morning to four in the evening.
The hotel and in stores can be calculated both by credit cards and tourist checks. In order to avoid unnecessary expenses, it is best to take tourist checks in American dollars. ATMs in the Philippine Islands, the thing is very common and with them the problems did not arise, because they occur quite often and need that they would have been looking for them for a long time.
Transport in Davao is represented in the form of buses and taxis. By taxi, I mean ordinary taxis, small taxis, motorcycles with wheelchairs and velaikasha. Depending on what type of taxi you choose, the cost of your trip will depend. Even if you choose your usual taxi, the cost of the trip will be quite affordable. It is always worth having a sufficient number of minor money and coins with you, so that you could pay with the driver, as local taxi drivers will never give, especially tourists.
With theft as a rule, the situation is quite predictable. So, for example, you should not leave your things unattended and in unfamiliar people. Behind the pockets, it is best to watch especially in crowded places. In stores and on the beaches, you should not shine a full wallet of cash. Girls, remove all the extra decorations. First of all, it is dangerous for you, and secondly, in this form, you look like a Christmas tree.
Locals, talking in Tagalog, but many of the bottom speak English at a completely decent level. I wrote already that the aborigines are friendly, and they also smile and in some extent naive. But, here is the local population and negative trait - slowness. Moreover, this slowness, it clearly can withdraw even a person with angelic patience. The slowness of the population is slowing down during Sunday Messe, holidays and sports competitions, such as basketball and cocks.
That I liked it very much in Davao, this is a sufficient number of public toilets, besides, if suddenly, there will be no such happiness within visibility, you can always use the toilet room with bars, shops and hotels, while paying a purely symbolic amount. By the way, the word toilet is not accepted here. In order for you to understand you need to ask where the "Comfort Room" is located. The female room is indicated as "Babae", and men's meal is like "Lalaka".
In Davao, there is a strict ban on smoking in public places, even in such places as a stop of transport. If you are smoking person, then at the time of booking the hotel, you should clarify the moment. You can violate the rule, you can only three times, that is, you will write a penalty for smoking in public places and so three times, in the fourth time you simply put in prison for several days. Therefore, I strongly recommend joking with smoking in public places.
Tips give and kindly take. It is customary to leave the standard five ten percent of the order amount in the restaurant or in a cafe. In taxi from you will also be waiting for payment of orders everything in the same ten percent. The hotel's hotel is not except, but they can give them as a gratitude, so much money as you do not feel sorry. In addition, in the Philippines, in addition to the most ten percent, it is customary to leave even on top, but this is no longer so basically, but rather it is desirable. If you want to get a faster and more attentive attitude to your person, then for every action personnel, which in your opinion is desired for you, you need to encourage a conscientious employee of no more than ten pesos. For you, this is a trifle, and for a person nice and thank you will be the most devotion.
Outlets in hotels are different. We were not lucky and a rosette with three pins was in our room. The husband had to look for an adapter, and considering the slowness of local staff, the search was stretched for a rather long period of time. If it were not for the spouse, I probably would faint with the form of such a socket, because in adapters I will not mean anything.