Expectation: Relaxing weekend by the beach couple of hours after picking up Maui from the airport. Reality: Canceled boat trips, whole day of travel through a detour, weekend under the storm by the beach. Relaxing, yea sure. If you think … Continue reading Puerto Galera: Traveling Through the Typhoon
There’s always a first time for everything; the first time you traveled alone, the first time you rode on a plane, the first time you went out of your country, the first time you made a trip with your partner. … Continue reading Of Silhouettes and Sunsets
The last part of the Philippine roundtrip 2015 > El Nido, Palawan. It was a long trip from Sagada to El Nido with two nights of stop over in Baguio and in Puerto Princesa. It was time consuming indeed, and … Continue reading It’s More Fun in El Nido… Or Is It?
It was my first travel after I bought my Araki (camera, yep, I named it!) back in 2012. Yep, this post is long overdue. The travel to Puerto Princesa was labeled by Joan as our pre-apocalypse getaway because it was … Continue reading Puerto Princesa Like It’s Yesterday
Hanging Coffins: Some answers to the questions of the traveler who knows nothing We were ignorant travelers in Sagada. We knew the things and places that the town are famous for but we didn’t have proper in-depth knowledge of their … Continue reading Looking Up to the Dead: The Hanging Coffins of Sagada
There was a time before internet when a number of our rice-eating ancestors fled to the mountains of Cordillera to live and survive. In those times, land, water, guts, and a little bit of knowledge in farming were all that … Continue reading Batad Rice Terraces: The Beautiful by-Product of Survival
It’s summer and I wanted to do something with my friends so I thought, why not find a falls nearby? Enter Buntot Palos, the approximately 90 meter tall falls hiding within the forest of Sierra Madre. It will take about … Continue reading It’s Not Just the Climb, It’s the Falls!
It will be Chef’s first weekend in the country. He will arrive the day before, after more than 10,000 kilometers of travel across the Earth so I needed to find a peaceful escape, a bit far from the busy streets … Continue reading Batangas Weekend: Up in the Tree House
Good morning sunshine and we’re here! We finally realised what those people were talking about and they were right! Calaguas is another gem in Bikol. Her beauty is stunning. The long fine single-shade sand, the water that looked sterilized and … Continue reading Calaguas Island: The Shores of Cosmic Paradise
I tend to keep my promises to everyone, including myself, specially to myself; so when I said I’ll go to the next Panagbenga after seeing the festival photos last year, I had to be present at Panagbenga 2014. Thing is, … Continue reading The Spontaneous Solo Travel in Panagbenga 2014
Surely You're Joking, Ms. Galvez 