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Taal Lake is now on the Internet with its own webcam.

Last year we introduced you to MyCam-Asia.tv - a free travel services website that provides real-time advertising and promotion for tourist destinations around Asia. Yesterday MyCam-Asia.tv announced the installation of their latest IP camera (webcam) in the grounds of the Taal Lake Yacht Club, Taal Lake, Batangas.

The view from the Taal Lake webcam shows the northwest vent of Taal volcano, the one that most people assume (incorrectly) is the main crater of Taal volcano, and the volcano tours boats of the Taal Lake Yacht Club . . . ready in waiting to take tourists on volc

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New free Internet tools now available for those asking the question “how to fly to . . . in the Philippines” but don't which airline or who to ask.

Don't waste hours waiting on-hold on the telephone, trying to contact an airline that doesn't go where you want to go, instead follow this free How To Fly To link and simply select your From/To route, then click “Show”. Within less than one second you will be shown ALL the of the airlines that fly your selected route; click on the airline logo of you choice to get the direct link to the airline's on-line booking page.

In addition to answering the How To Fl

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Free Internet tools road and street maps of the Philippines: until yesterday evening that statement was an oxymoron. As of yesterday evening the best road and street maps of the Philippines are now on-line 24/7 on the MyCam-Asia.tv website . . . and elsewhere soon. The Philippines travel and tourism industry has suffered for too long with out of date road and street maps, showing roads that did not exist and no roads where new roads had been built. No Longer!

The free Internet tools in the form of road maps are a project of OpenStreetMap.org and Google Earth (to replace the woefully inadequate road maps that Google used to display). MyCam Asia staff have joined the OpenStreetMap.org Ph

Someone has finally found a use for Internet webcams that doesn't involve steamy porn and promoting Japanese laundromats.

The all new MyCam-Asia.tv website features beautiful, interesting destinations and water sports venues around the Philippines and then gives you the whole nine yards on how to get there – airlines, buses, ferries, whatever. The main objective is to show the rest of the world how beautiful Asia really is . . . they have chosen the Philippines as their guinea pig country in Asia to deploy the initial service.

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