Month: November 2011

  • Travel fund raising idea: The travel registry

    Another birthday has come and gone. I celebrated it by staying at home all day, since I’ve been traveling on and off since October. There wasn’t much fuss about the day itself because I felt I already celebrated it in Morocco. You see, before I left, I asked my friends and family to give their…

  • Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards 2011

    Here I was, thinking I’m already set after that amazing Moroccan trip, but apparently the universe has other ideas. As a final smack in the face for dreading turning 30, it comes around and give me another surprise: I just received word that I am a finalist for the Best Travel Blog category of this…

  • Travel Expenses: Morocco

    For the first time since I started traveling in 2006, I did not go beyond my estimated budget. Also for the first time (not including Myanmar since, it’s not possible there), I did not use my credit card nor my ATM/debit cards. It is indeed one small step to financial freedom and a giant leap…

  • Snapshot Morocco: Closing the loop

    We’re back where we started: Casablanca. Tomorrow we’ll be boarding the plane that will take us to Abu Dhabi then onwards to Manila. Putting my cooking lessons to good use We left Marrakech early this morning, anticipating the volume of people traveling back to their hometown on the eve of Eid al-Adha. We were so…

  • Snapshot Morocco: Into the souk

    After 12 days, we gave in and shopped. It was hard resisting in the other cities we went to before Marrakech, but we held off because it would be cumbersome to travel with the extra weight in our bags. I love my new bag Lilliane, who is into the fifth month of her one-year RTW…

  • Snapshot Morocco: The long road to Marrakech

    Though Marrakech is only 200 kilometers from Ouarzazate, the bus ride takes almost four hours. The route takes us not just through the Atlas Mountains, but also up and down its side. Through the High Atlas One minute we were marveling at tr mountain, next thing we know, our bus is hugging its side. The…

  • Snapshot Morocco: Ouallywood

    Ouarzazate was a pleasant surprise. We were expecting another small, sleepy town, and though it is small and sleepy, it was pretty-fied to look like a bustling metropolis. View from our balcony There were no touts waiting to “welcome” us when we got off the bus, and we were ignored for the most part while…