​I. Project Title:
LAKBAY – ARAL: A Travel and Tour in the Light of Philippine Education and Culture

II. Project Proponent:
This travel and tour services for the educational institutions is proposed by St. Michael Explorer Travel and Tour (SMETT) in partnership with the different recreational, educational, and spiritual areas in the Philippines.

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III. Project Rationale:
For a developing nation, like the Philippines, education is a visa in search for greener pasture. Struggling with their pens and papers comes with blistering hope that with diplomas at their hands or titles prefix at their names greets them a better future. Education is a staircase for social mobility.

Philippine education setting has been directly affected by the changing political and economic landscape in the course of the history. The melting pot of nations has been a battlefield of struggling foreign forces, i.e. the Spanish, Americans and the Japanese invasion., which imposed their will and control during the colonial years and its impacts have been in continued resurface and is being felt up to the present times. Refracted at the shadows of Philippine educational institutions are the colonial dregs of our own history, of our culture and identity. According to Persell (1975), the structural basis used by society relies upon the educational system to recreate and legitimate structures of dominance of society. Her perspective suggests that structure of dominance in society is related to educational structures and ideologies. LAKBAY – ARAL: Aims to provide the students an analytical overview to the current trends and issues that beset that current Philippine educational setting. In doing so, it will consider fragments of historical and cultural accounts of Philippine educational setting and correlates how it had impact acceptance or resistance to much-pressing issues of today.

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IV. Project Objectives:
LAKBAY – ARAL: A Travel and Tour in the Light of Philippine Education and Culture is a travel and tour service that offer affordable and reasonable through flexible and customer-oriented packages designed to explore different places and with focus on personal and professional development of students, will be in accordance to the following:

1.To present and discuss some pressing trends and issues in the current Philippine education setting with the help of various tourist guides and speaker expert in the field of Philippine education history and culture;
2.To be able to let the students have a full application of the theoretical knowledge that they gained from time of commencement in the four walls of the educational institutions;
3.To expose the students in the real world and having them immerse to the real conditions; and
4.To develop and strengthen their foundation of moral values all throughout the trip.

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V. Project Description:
LAKBAY – ARAL: A Travel and Tour in the Light of Philippine Education is a travel and tour services including Domestic and International Tour. It is especially designed to let the students have an application and visualization of the theoretical knowledge that they have learned from time of commencement in the four walls of the educational institutions.

The service is commissioned with the social and natural environment as resources for learning. It shall first proceed with a brief yet comprehensive presentation of Philippine Education and Culture Situationnaire. Each topic will be presented and discussed by the tourist guide in partnership with the assigned teacher. The tourist guide makes sure that learning while travelling vis-à-vis is fun. However, the itinerary of the service will be aligned to the level of the students and its curriculum.

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VI. Project Duration:
LAKBAY – ARAL: A Travel and Tour in the Light of Philippine Education depends on the customized itinerary agreed by the school administrators and the company.

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VII. Budget Proposal:
St. Michael Travel and Tours (SMETT) shall offer efficient and effective services that are affordable and reasonable through flexible and customer-oriented packages designed to explore different places.

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VIII. Maintaining and Evaluation:
Supervision of the service will be done by the tourist guide as well as the assigned faculty member. Moreover, evaluation and feedback will be gathered from the customers to help in improving the service that the company offers. This is done for the company believes in giving customer satisfaction.

PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY and HIGH SCHOOL Packages

 

BAGUIO TOUR:
Philippine Military Academy
Botanical Garden
Wright Park
Mansion House
Teachers Camp
Mines View
Good Shepherd
Lourdes Grotto
Strawberry Farm
Pink Sister
Baguio Cathedral
Burnham Park
SM Baguio
Baguio Public Market

 

BULACAN TOUR:
Biak Na Bato
Barasoain Church
Hiyas ng Bulacan Museum
Butterfly Sanctuary

BATAAN TOUR:
Furniture & Wood Curving
Pawikan Conservation
Mount Samat
Dambana ng Kagitingan
Filipino-Japanese Friendship Tower
La Vista Resort

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CORREGIDOR TOUR:
Corregidor
Guided island tour

LAGUNA AND QUEZON TOUR:
Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery
Caliraya Re-creation Center
Lucky Me (noodles Factory)
Gardenia
Nestle Phils.
Yakult Factory
Coca Cola Factory
Majayjay Falls or Taytay Falls
Kamay ni Hesus
Lomi Making Factory
Longganisa Factory ng Lucban
Side trip at Quezon ProvinceLiliw (Turones factory and shoe Making)
Bahay Laguna Museum With pasalubong stop over
Enchanted Kingdom

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METRO MANILA TOUR
Quezon City Museum
Wildlife
Fort Santiago
Star City
GSIS Museum
Marikina Biggest Shoe
Manila Ocean Park
Science Discovery (MOA)
Mall of Asia
Avilon Zoo
Meralco Museum
Bangko Central Money Museum
National Historical Instute
Museo Pambata
Planetarium
PAG-ASA Weather Forecasting
Light and Sound show of Rizal
Malacañang museum
UST museum
De Lasalle museum
Ayala museum
Intramuros tour
CCP Museum
Philippine Aero Space Museum
ABS CBN Museum
ArdiocesanMuseum of Manila
Air Force Museum – Pasay
La Mesa Eco park
Eat Bulaga Show

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RIZAL TOUR
Yab design
Angono Petroglyphs
Blanco Musuem
Sierra Madre Resort

SBMA TOUR @ SUBIC & CLARK PAMPANGA
Ocean Adventure
Zoobic Safari
Naval Magazine
Subic Intl. Airport
Tree Top Adventure
Monkeys on the Road
Duty Free
San Guillermo church (May Bukas pa shooting area)
Nayong Pilipino-Clark Pampanga
Clark Museum
Airforce City
Paradize Ranch
Board walk
Rolling tour SBMA
Bat kingdom
Camayan Beach Resort

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TAGAYTAY TOUR
Tagaytay residence
Inn zoo
Picnic Groove
Leisure Farm
Demo Farms
Aguinaldo shrine

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** For Collage package, just send your requirements and we'll arrange it for you.​

Package Inclusions​

* Travel Insurance
* Roundtrip aircon tourist bus transfer
* Services of a Tour Guide
* Bus Streamer
* Photo Documentation
* Candies and mints
* Certificate of Attendance
* Travel ID
* Taxes and surcharges
* Coordination Fee
* Speaker/s Fee or Token
* All permits and licenses pertinent to the operation of the tour

TRANSPORTATION RENTALS INCLUSIONS / SPECIFICATION:
* Class A Tourist Bus Rainbow Plate (60 seaters)( 49 regular seat and 11 middle seats )
* Audio-Videoke on Board.
* Centralize Air conditioned Tourist Bus with complete accessories.
* with WiFi on board (limited slot only).
* Toll fee, parking fee and other gates fee
* Travel insurance
* Courteous and Friendly Driver

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WE CAN CUSTOMIZED ITINERARIES ACCORDING TO YOUR NEEDS!!!