Oktoberfest 2008 schedule of events happening in Ortigas Center:

• Oct 11 – Silver City, Tiendesitas, Pasig City
• Oct 17 – Metrowalk Central Plaza, Pasig City

Here’s some of the Oktoberfest events happening outsite of Ortigas Center:

• Oct 15 – Bagaberde, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay
• Oct 16 – NBC Tent Fort Bonifacio Taguig
• Oct 18 – Pacita Complex, Laguna
• Oct 18 – Marikina Riverbanks
• Oct 17 – NCCC Mall, Davao
• Oct 24 – Eastwood City
• Oct 25 – Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay
• Nov 8 – Toril Gymnasium, Davao City
• Nov 14 – San Miguel By The Bay
• Nov 22 – Boardwalk, Iloilo City
• Dec 5 – Araneta Coliseum Parking Lot, Cubao
• Dec 12 – People’s Park, Roxas City
• Dec 15 – Avenue Square, Naga City
• Dec 26 – Grill Avenue, Cebu City
• Dec 27 – Grand Central Park, Lucena

For confirmation and additional information, you can visit the San Miguel web site.

Longest beer bar

San Miguel Corporation, the organizers of the Oktoberfest 2008, is all ready and set to break the existing world record for the longest beer bar in the world.

The current record in the Guinness book of world records is 240 meters held by Taiwan.

San Miguel is aiming for a staggering 600 meters in total, stretching along the length of San Miguel Avenue and winding down to Julia Vargas Avenue in Ortigas, Mandaluyong City. It is one of the main attractions of the San Miguel Oktoberfest kick-off party slated today.

The event, which will also feature four stages and around 40 local bands and artists, will also attempt to set a world record for the largest beer-toasting crowd. Third Eye Blind will be featured as one of the main acts. Dubbed “San Miguel Oktoberfest 120,” the event launches the longest-ever celebration of the world-renowned festival, now extended to 120 days.

San Miguel Pale Pilsen, world famous beer, will try attempt to put the Filipinos on the record books by celebrating the biggest Oktoberfest celebration ever to get more than 13,500 beer drinkers to raise their glasses and toast at the same time to topple the current record held by the United States.

In addition, Pinoys will be attempting to break another world record which is for the longest bar. The event organizers will create a 600-meter bar stretching throughout San Miguel Ave from Julia Vargas to Lourdes Avenue to up the ante from current record of 240 meters held by Taiwan.

San Miguel Pale Pilsen division, the organizers of the event, will put up four stages along San Miguel Avenue for 40 of the country’s hottest bands, including a popular foreign band, to provide entertainment to the merrymakers.

The world record attempts are set to take place on September 5, Friday, all over Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong City, at the kick-off of this year’s celebration of San Miguel Oktoberfest. The event is open to all.

Organized by the Philippine Tour Operators Association in cooperation with the Department of Tourism, the 19th Philippine Travel Mart is gearing to showcase the country’s adventure side with the theme “Triple X: Xtreme Adventure, Xtreme Wellness and Xtreme Leisure.”
This year’s theme coincides with the Department of Tourism’s new focus on adventure travel, and both highlight the travel public’s growing taste for extreme rush and recreation.

It will feature packages that highlight a different kind of Philippines that takes one from the beachside lounge chair and off on the surf, on a skimboard, on a raft, on a sail, on a hanging bridge, or off to the jungles on the look out for some of the world’s rarest birds.

The three-day Travel Mart is the country’s largest travel fair and features showcase pavilions of the regional tourism offices, tour operators, hotels, airlines and transport services, plus other usual stakeholders of the local travel industry.

So designed to spur local tourism and to draw foreign tourist traffic into the Philippine shores, this year’s Philippine Travel Mart will feature a heady buffet of adventure travel packages to choose from, covering a wide spectrum of intensity—from bird-watching in Cebu, spelunking in Boracay, ocean kayaking in Bohol or volcano-crater kayaking in Mount Pinatubo, to jungle trekking and treetop canopy walking in Subic, paddling and surfing in La Union, river-tubing in Kidapawan, and rafting and rappelling in Cagayan de Oro, among a host of numerous adrenaline-pumping travel options.

For those who are keen on all-out relaxation, the Xtreme Leisure packages of beach and mountain holidays are also available. Those searching for the rejuvenating high of wellness spas and other healing destinations can likewise have their pick of just the right kind of package that suits their vacation needs.

Adventure travel encompasses the principles that responsible travel embraces. Apart from the physical aspect, adventure travel also promotes encounter with nature and ecotourism, as well as cultural involvement in terms of interaction with the local communities.

For a peek into what’s coming in the travel fair, the 19th Philippine Travel Mart has collected the works of six photographers, Bahaghari, Levi Nahayangan, Romy Ocon, Ivan Sarenas, Nicky Sering, and Anton Sheker, for a visual tour of the country’s adventure-filled escape.

Dubbed “The Philippines Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”, the exhibit which will be launched on July 30, 2008 at the Travel Café in Greenbelt 5, captures the lesser-known side of the country’s idyllic countryside, the beautiful and rugged terrain, the raw power of nature, wildlife going even wilder, and the energy of the people.

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