Nakahara Lodging & Travel Services

Maria Gilda Nakahara

I am Maria Gilda Quintua-Nakahara. I was born deaf but this did not stop me from succeeding in life and pursuing a career as a Deaf Entrepreneur.

I also run Nakahara Lodging & Travel Agency, a travel and tour business catering to Deaf clients around the world which I manage online and keeps me travelling from one place to another.

I was instrumental in establishing the Deaf organization in my province which paved the way for the unification of all the Deaf in five towns of Eastern Samar: Oras, San Julian, Borongan, Taft, Dolores.

I am currently in the process of putting up an organization that will provide funding an emergency assistance for the Deaf community in the Philippines.

How I Communicate

People usually wonder how I manage to communicate in my day to day activities for my businesses and organizations. I mainly communicate with my hands using Filipino Sign Language (FSL) but I always bring pen and paper for writing to communicate with hearing people.

For those who do not know FSL, I would appreciate if hearing people communicate with me in written English because I do not understand Tagalog.

Love in Any Language

I met my Japanese husband Koichi Nakahara at Glorietta Mall in May of 2000. He was a friend of one of my clients. He asked for my name, address and took a photo of me together with his two Deaf friends during our first meeting.

Since then, he would always contact me to act as his tour guide every time he went to the Philippines during his annual vacations.

We got engaged in May 2007 and had a simple but meaningful wedding in August 13, 2009 in the presence of our family, relatives and close friends.

Manila City Package 1

Introduction to Manila and its suburbs starting with Rizal Park and Fort Santiago. From the Walled City of Intramuros, proceeding to downtown MANILA across the Pasig River.

Then onto the cosmopolitan suburbs of MAKATI - the Makati Business Center, Forbes Park, and the Manila American Memorial Cemetery.

Going back to Manila for a trip to the reclaimed area along Roxas Blvd. some of it are the Cultural Center Complex and the Mall of Asia. Ample time for shopping is provided before returning to the point of origin.

Tour Inclusions:

-Half-day tour,

-AM and PM Round-trip transportation with guided tour.

Cebu Package 3

Cebu City is an important cultural Center in the Philippine island. The City's most famous landmark is Megallan's cross. This cross, now housed in a chapel, was supposedly planted by Ferdinand Magellan when he arrived in the Philippine Islands in 1521.

It was encased in hollow tindalo wood in 1885 upon the order of the Augustinian Bishop Santos Gomez Maranon to prevent devotees from taking it home chip by chip.

The same bishop restored the present template, or Kioski, Located at the present magellan street betwen City Hall, and Colegio del Santo Nino. Revered by Filipinos, the cross of Magellan is a symbol of the beginning of christianity iin the Philippines.

Inclusions:
- Arrive in Cebu
- Round Trip Land Transfer to hotel / Airport
- After check-in, proceed to your Twin City Tour of Cebu and Mactan:
- Taoist Temple in Beverly Hills
- Magellan's Cross
- Fort San Pedro
- Basilica de Santo Nino
- Lapu-Lapu Monument

Bohol Package 4

The Chocolate Hills are Bohol's most famous attraction. The Chocolate Hills are not the the only example of conical karst hills on earth. Slovenia and Croatia both have conical karst hills, except that the Chocolate Hills are simpler examples because the Chocolate Hills have no caves.

The Bungle Bungles in the Purnululu National Park in Western Australia feature similar sedimentary formations. The Chocolate Hills is a rolling terrain of haycock hills-mounds of generalshape whick are conical and almost symmeterical.

Estimated to be at least 1,268 individual monds to about 1,776, these cone-sharped or dome-shaped hills are actually made of grass-covered limestone.

The domes vary in sizes from 30 to 50 metres (98 to 160 ft) high with the largest being 120 metres ( 390 ft) in height. They are scattered throughout the towns of Carmen Batuan and Sagbayan in Bohol. Bohol's "main attraction" therse unique mond-shaped hills are scattered by the hundreds on the island's central plain, concentrated near the town of Carmen.

Inclusions:
- 3 Days and 2 Nights' accommodation at Bohol
- Daily Breakfast
- Round trip transfers during tour
- Welcome drinks at chocolate Hills
- Loboc river cruising
- Lunch
Sight - seeing tour to Bohol's best scenic tourist spot
- Blood compact site
- Baclayan church
- Tarsier
- Bilar man made forest
- Chocolate Hills
- Loboc river
- Hinagadanan Cave
- City Tour

Boracay Package 5

Boracay is known as an island paradise because of its powder white beaches and crystal blue water, tropical palms and flowering plants, and a healthy marine life under the seas.

Boracay is the Beach Capital of the Philippines and is one the major destinations / tourist spots in the world. In fact, Boracay is often called "the world's most beautiful tropical island."

Inclusions:

- 3 Days and 2 Nights’ accommodation
- Daily Breakfast
- Roundtrip land and Boat transfer
- Terminal fee
- Environment fee

Palawan Package 6

The province of Palawan is located on the Philippines' western border. It is located southwest of Manila and it will only take an hour-long flight to get there.

Palawan is an idyllic paradise with an invitingly calm atmosphere and nature themes of tropical bliss. It is a fine getaway from the tiring daily grind of work and an ideal place to take a time out from life's pressures.

Inclusions:

- 3 Days and 2 Nights’ accommodation at twin/triple sharing - with Daily Breakfast

- City Tour with snacks

- Underground River Tour
(with picnic buffet lunch)

- Honda Bay

- Island Hopping Tour
(with picnic buffer lunch)

Bataan Package 7

This guided tour explores the historic island of Corregidor. Located 25 miles west of Manila, Corregidor served as one of the most vital harbor defenses of Manila during the war.

Some of the points of interest includes the various gun batteries, mile-long barracks, Pacific War Memorial, and the famous Malinta tunnel where guests have the option to experience the Lights and Sounds Multi-Vision Show.

From Manila, guests will board a luxurious 150-seater, 25 knots ferryboat, which will bring them to the island in just an hour. Upon arrival, visitors will board to the pre-war type streetcars call 'tramsvias' that will bring them around the island-fortess.

Tour Inclusions: Round-trip ferry (CCP-Corregidor-CCP), Guided Island Tour Shrine and Terminal Fees, lunch, Lights and Sound Show.

Villa Escudero Package 8

The province of Palawan is located on the Philippines' western border. It is located southwest of Manila and it will only take an hour-long flight to get there.

Tour Inclusions: Roundtrip aircon land transfer (Manila-Quezon-Manila), welcome drink, museum tour, carabao ride, buffet lunch by the falls and filipino cultural show (weekend only)

Pagsanjan Falls Package 9

This tour takes you to the vast countryside southwards, passing through rice fields and coconut plantations until you reach the old town of pagsanjan.

From a riverside resort, transfer to a "banca" (a dugout caroe) for the trip to the falls. As your boatman starts rowing upstream, the wonders of nature unfolds before you. The sight of lush greenery and towering cliffs above will thrill you endlessly.

At the falls, you may opt to ride a bamboo raft that will take you underneath the waterfalls to experience the thunderous pounding of water coming from 70ft. above. Your return trip is another unforgettable experience as you "shoot the rapids"!

Your boatman will skillfully maneuver the boat between the rocks and boulders until you reach the calm river of pagsanjan. Lunch follows at a riverside lodge..

Tour Inclusions: 8 hours tour, includes canoe ride, life vest and lunch at the Riverside Hotel, Round-trip transportation with guided tour