Category: Destination

  • Blue Dolphin Resort

    It’s my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary next year, and me and the siblings are already planning how to celebrate it. My eldest sister suggested that we rent a house with a pool again, like we did years ago and stay for a night or two with the entire family. Sort of goes without saying that…

  • Snapshot Kalibo: Wonder Woman of Aklan

    It doesn’t take much to make me want to visit a place. A video or a photo is sometimes enough to make me fixate on a destination or event, and I will do what I can to go there. In this case, it was a tarpaulin. Mababaw lang ang kaligayahan namin Back in December 2010,…

  • Meknes, Moulay Idriss and Volubilis

    Though Casablanca was our port of entry in Morocco, we considered Meknes as our first city. We merely transited in Casablanca, never going out of the airport and the train station enroute to the old capital. Bab Mansour Meknes wasn’t really in our original itinerary. We wanted to go to Volubilis, and according to research,…

  • Project Morocco

    When I published my Morocco travel expenses, friends started messaging me expressing their surprise at the figures I presented and asked for tips on how to plan a trip to Morocco. I promised them I’d give a copy of my spreadsheet, which has our itinerary, budget, list of accommodation we considered staying at and links…

  • Snapshot: Kuala Lumpur

    I’m back in Malaysia to attend the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards 2011. The event is only happening tomorrow, but I requested to fly in early so I can meet with my brother and his family who are also in KL this week. KL must-do: chicken rice. On the flight over, I realized this is…

  • An Amazing Weekend at Misibis Bay

    I had another week of doing nothing before going back to work after a month’s leave. When the invitation came, I jumped at the chance, wanting to make the most out of my leave before I plunge back into the grind. Besides, how can I say no to a weekend at Misibis Bay? Lagoon pool…

  • 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…