It's More Fun In The Philippines: Surfing in Siargao

"This dramatic and powerful reef break, which crashes onto shallow razor-sharp coral, offers right and left death rides to those who dare. Those who do will experience a slice of paradise, or magic mushroom-like hallucinations, as the wave wraps over them like a Cornish pasty-shaped cocoon of water. Don't slip, or your skin and bones will be ripped to shreds by the ocean bed," Bremmer wrote about Siargao's famous "Cloud Nine" in the article. -source: CNNGo.com

Siargao Is World's 8th Best Surf Spot.
Surfing. More fun in the Philippines.


Siargao, an island shaped like a teardrop in Surigao del Norte, is the eighth best surf spot in the world. This is according to the travel news website of the Cable News Network (CNN).

The World's Top 50 Best Surf Spots list was compiled by CNNGo writer and "avid surfer" Jade Bremmer. It also used contributions from other professional surfers.

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Movie Review

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is neither deep nor meaningful but the stunts are awesome.

Director: Brad Bird

Writers: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, and 1 more credit »

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg

It’s these that make Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol superior to the other films in this series, and very much worth the price of admission. See it, if you can, on an Imax screen, where the stunts are breath-taking.
 

Bourne Legacy Shots in the Philippines

 

The latest installment of the Jason Bourne Hollywood spy franchise began filming in the chaotic Philippine capital Tuesday amid heavy security with the city on alert over a feared terrorist attack.

The production, which has a budget of more than $100 million, will spend about 45 days in the Philippines. Scenes have already been shot in New York and Alberta, Canada, since filming began last September. 

Although a few smaller-budget independent movies, including John Sayles’ 2000 “Amigo,” have been made in the Southeast Asian country, the fourth “Bourne” will be the biggest Hollywood production to be shot there since the late 1970s and 1980s. Several classic war films, among them Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 “Apocalypse Now” and Oliver Stone’s 1986 “Platoon” and his 1989 “Born on the Fourth of July," used the Philippines as a stand-in for Vietnam.

Director: Tony Gilroy

Writers: Tony Gilroy (screenplay), Dan Gilroy (screenplay)

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton

 

President Benigno Aquino III's spokesman Edwin Lacierda says the movie will boost tourism (Filming. It's more fun in the Philippines) and provide jobs.

It's More Fun In The Philippines

The new Department of Tourism (DOT) slogan, "It's More Fun in the Philippines," on January 6, Friday, the hashtag #ItsMoreFunInThePhilippines became the top trending topic worldwide. The man behind the slogan Secretary Ramon "Mon" Jimenez Jr. But, it was created by advertising firm BBDO Guerrero|Proximity Philippines and according to DOT Secretary Ramon "Mon" Jimenez Jr., the slogan answers the fundamental question, 'Why the Philippines?'."

Click here to see more fun in the Philippines images

It's more fun in the Philippines... social networking sites are now abuzz with images depicting netizens' own take on what makes the Philippines "more fun". Using their own photos from their own travels around the country and fun shots from the Web, people have been sharing their own images and taglines on the official "It's More Fun in the Philippines" Facebook page.