Category: Everything Travel

  • Juan for Fun Backpacking Challenge 2014

    It is indeed a different world we’re living in when an adventure contest is won by geeks. It reaffirms that whatever you set your mind to, you can achieve if you’re determined enough! The five Juan for Fun teams, with Team Tuklas right in the middle wearing blue. In the recently Cebu Pacific’s Juan for…

  • Ticking off an item in my bucket list with Airbnb

    This is my entry for Nuffnang’s #MyAirbnbBucketList contest. Nothing can break me out of my blogging funk like the sweet promise of a free trip. Well, not really since it’s not really free unless I win this contest. Kinda weird to be posting a photo of the bathroom this early in the post, but just…

  • Who’s going to Japan?

    I just want to say thank you to everyone who made an effort and joined my contest! I really appreciated all the effort you put into, to get the chance to win that round trip ticket to Japan, courtesy of Cebu Pacific! Back in Japan I am actually in Japan now, savoring the pleasantly cool…

  • Win a round trip ticket to Japan on Cebu Pacific!

    In case it isn’t obvious yet, I love Japan. It has been one of my dream destinations, and I’ve had the great fortune to have been able to visit the country twice. Since last year, Japan has started granting Philippine passport holders multiple-entry visas (provided that you have been to Japan before), and I managed…

  • Where are you headed next?

    This is an advertorial Before I left Melbourne last August, my eldest sister asked me a question that left me both stumped and surprised: where do I picture myself living in the future? Unlike other 32 year olds who can easily prattle off with a concrete answer, I found myself saying with as much confidence…

  • Review: Hotel Quickly

    Last year, I received a message in LinkedIn. I hardly use that social network, so I was surprised to receive anything. Interestingly, it was from the developer of a new (then) last-minute booking app called Hotel Quickly. I was quite eager to try it out (and use the $50 credit they gave me), but unfortunately,…

  • Tips for festival travel in the Philippines

    This is an advertorial January in the Philippines means mild climate (or as mild as the tropics can get), people trying their darndest to hold on to their New Year’s resolutions, and the Sto. Niño festivals. Many of you are no doubt flying out to Cebu for the Sinulog festival or to Kalibo for the…

  • The other side of Hong Kong

    Just as I was starting to get settled to being back in Manila, I received an e-mail from Tigerair: I have a flight coming up in a couple of days. Though I keep close tabs on my flights, it’s still great to receive a reminder, as I know some might forget, specially if tickets were…

  • Shangri-La Hotel’s “School’s Out, Fun’s In”

    Though school is definitely not out in the Philippines, it is on other parts of the world. Also, it doesn’t mean there’s no more time to have some fun during the weekend, right? Very inviting pool of the Shangri-La’s Boracay Resort and Spa While in Boracay last May, my mermaid friend Ida, told us to…