• RM 9.99 Hotel Room? How can?

    Can lah, with TuneHotels.com! I was floored when I saw the picture of the hotel on Ajay’s flickr, and flabbergasted when I read her entry about TuneHotels. RM9.99 for a hotel room. A hotel, not a hostel!

  • New Seven Wonders Announced

    The voting finally ended and the New Seven Wonders of the World is announced (which overloaded the new7wonders.com website). And the winners are: Great Wall – China Petra – Jordan Christ the Redeemer – Brazil Machu Picchu – Peru Chichen Itza – Mexico Colosseum – Italy Taj Mahal – India And retaining its status as…

  • All blogged out

    After my record-breaking month of May & June in terms of number of posts, I find myself in a slump. It’s not that I’ve run out of things to blog about: there are plenty of travel news, and don’t get me started on my backlog of reviews and travel stories. Call it writer’s block, but…

  • Best backpacker job

    Depending on your passport, you can apply a working holiday visa in the countries you visit. Why would you want to work if you’re on a holiday? Well, the sad fact still remains that traveling is not really expensive. It *can* be inexpensive, but if you’re traveling in a country that has a pretty high…

  • New Seven Wonders of the World – Have you voted?

    There’s only 7 days and 7 hours until the announcement of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Have you voted yet?

  • One good reason to go to Hong Kong: The Spice Girls

    Photo credit: Times Online Are you ready for some more Girl Power? All five Spice Girls appeared in public together for the first time in six years today as they announced an 11-date, eight-country world tour. The tour will take in the USA, Britain, Germany, Spain, China, Australia, South Africa and Argentina. To register for…

  • Cebu Pacific now flies to China

    Cebu Pacific (CEB) will start direct flights from Manila to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Macau this September and October with seat sale fares that are 85% lower than those currently available for these routes. One-way fares exclusive of surcharges and government tax are pegged at P888 for Manila-Guangzhou, Manila-Xiamen, Manila-Macau, and P1,888 for Manila-Shanghai. This…

  • See David rise again

    Photo credit: Lorenzo Galassi / AP via MSNBC.com FLORENCE, Italy – Visitors to the Bargello museum in Florence will be able to see restorers at work removing centuries of dirt from Donatello’s “David” starting Tuesday, officials said. The 15th-century bronze nude is being restored for the first time, said museum director Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi. New…

  • Just Wandering at Blog-O-Rama

    Happy! Just Wandering has been featured in Manila Bulletin’s Blog-O-Rama. Thanks so much to Ajay for this opportunity. I shall take this as the ultimate motivation to update more and actually write posts that make sense lol Thanks to everyone who’s been reading my travel blog since its birth last year, and to everyone who…

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