I was all alone the last time I went to Sagada. It was the All Souls’ Day break of 2008, a very spontaneous decision to explore Sagada by myself. I left Manila at 10 in …
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Touring El Nido in Two Days
This is the day three and four travelogue of the five-day trip to El Nido. After a day of diving, Ate Claudia and I were not yet through with our rendezvous. There were so much …
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This is the day one travelogue of the five-day trip to El Nido. The Tubbataha June 2010 plan was shelved for some reasons. But it didn’t stall our plan to pursue our backup trip. The …
Continue readingApo Reef and Pandan Island on a Budget (A DIY guide)
The weather that night was the same when we went to Culebra Island in Pangasinan on the last week of May – rainy with thunderstorms and there were no stars at sight. The government weather …
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Who says summer is already over? Not for beach people like us (Anj, BJ, Donna, Grace, Jonard and me). The gloomy forecast and scattered city showers didn’t stop us on our planned beach bumming up …
Continue readingA Walk Through Philippine Postal Heritage
Not everybody knows that the very first stamp in Asia was issued in the Philippines on February 1, 1854. Some carries a genuine error in printing the word “corros” rather than “correos”, which are valued …
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