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Indonesia

Eat, Pray, Love (Bali, Indonesia Part 1)

Bali, Indonesia. This should have been uploaded months ago — back when I was always telling myself I need to put up a site where I can dump my travel memories to. It was May 2011. I was with the travel bud and a notebook in hand. That’s how I do it. I write down […]

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Philippines Tagaytay

Royale Tagaytay: Bonding with the Family

Tagaytay is one of those places we people from Manila go to for an “instant” vacation. With the rain coming and going from June to October — you never know when it’s going to pour these days — there aren’t really a lot of activities we could do outdoors. So last month, for my dad’s […]

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Batangas Philippines

What Could Go Wrong With Tali, Batangas?

or You Suck at Looking for Vacation Houses It was a 4-day weekend and my dad and I have planned this family trip weeks ago. We wanted somewhere near, not too expensive; some place we can relax even if it rains. I think it was my dad’s assistant who did the googling. She suggested we […]

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Ilocos Philippines

I’ve Got Pot from Vigan

One of the things I was able to try for the first time in Vigan — making a pot! As part of our one-day tour around Vigan and Laoag, we went to GR Jars Pottery. One potter can make over 200 of these a day.

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Ilocos Philippines

Vigan and Laoag in a Day

A one day tour around Vigan and Laoag is like browsing through pages of a history book. Just to give you an idea of what’s there to see, I’d like to share some of the photos I took of buildings, museums and old things from our tour a week ago. Having stayed in Fort Ilocandia, […]

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Ilocos Philippines

That Pretty Street in Vigan — Calle Crisologo

My mom comes from an Ilocano clan, but for some reason I don’t remember ever going to Vigan when we were younger. I have often envied the pretty photos of its streets, buildings and calesas so it’s pretty exciting that I can now share my own. This is from Calle Crisologo — one of the […]

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Ilocos Philippines

The Best of Laoag: Fort Ilocandia

With much luck, I had the opportunity to visit what they say is the only 5-star resort hotel in the North of Luzon — Fort Ilocandia. It isn’t peak season this time of the year so there weren’t a lot of guests around the huge resort. And of all the guests we were with, perhaps […]