City Safari

Here are some photos from Davao City that I took yesterday as I went to my two appointments and as I went back home.
This was the once famous Durian Hotel in Davao City that sits along J. P. Laurel Avenue idle for so long a time now. When it operated years back, we used to jokingly say that the seats, chairs and beds of the hotel were made of spiky Durian husks. LOL.

My take of the section where Durian Hotel could be seen. Not so much volume of traffic this time (lunchtime as you can see from the shadows directly cast beneath the vehicles.

This section is the entry gate to the Davao International Airport (DIA). There were only so few vehicles yesterday which my friend attributed as caused by the latest oil price increase. Car owners had decided to park their service cars and took public utility jeeps in going to their offices.

A panoramic shot of Buhangin Road going to the DIA (same photo below)

and finally (last photos) were takes of a section of J. P. Laurel Avenue and the facade of Victoria Plaza (last photo). If memory serves me right, Victorial Plaza was the first mall of Davao City that attracted Davaoeños from all walks of life. Before the rise of other malls, it became one of the most frequented places in the city. Today, we have NCCC Mall and SM City and other smaller malls that are frequented by Davaoeños and other city visitors.