Category: Everything Travel

  • Seair starts Hong Kong flights

    Great news for those still without plans for the summer! Southeast Asian Airlines (Seair) is starting daily flights to Hong Kong and slashing up to 25% off their Singapore flights.

  • Who gets the basket of travel goodies?

    Before I announce the winner, I just want to thank everyone who joined and played along with this crazy contest. I know the questions can be pretty tough (specially the busker’s song), but I designed this contest to reward Just Wandering readers, not rabid contest joiners. If you’ve been reading the useless crap I’ve been…

  • Seair’s new Dornier 328

    Southeast Asian Airlines (Seair) welcomes another Dornier 328 aircraft to its current fleet. This aircraft will be utilized in the airline’s Manila-Basco route, as the northernmost province of the Philippines is fast becoming one of the tourism hotspot in the country. From left to right: SEAIR President Avelino Zapanta, SEAIR COO Patrick Tan, SEAIR guests…

  • Just Wandering’s travel essentials giveaway: into the homestretch

    Let’s make this short and sweet: the contest ends on January 30, 2011 at 11:59pm. Last few days to Google the hell out of my blog for the answers to the following questions: What is traditionally served for lunch among the Portuguese? In which book can you find this paragraph: “Tourists, of course, are always…

  • What’s in my bag?

    Here’s a different take on my What’s in my bag posts. These are some of my travel essentials — the mainstays inside my bags whenever I go on a trip. Quick drying, super absorbent microfibre towel Sea to Summit and Aquazorb microfibre towels When I was just starting to travel, I passed on buying a…

  • Travel essentials giveaway updates

    Thanks to everyone who already submitted their entries! It was a delight looking through the form and seeing that you guys got the answers correctly! There are some misses too, but it was offset by the correct answers on the bonus questions! Just to remind you, the answers to the questions can and MUST be…

  • To guidebook or not?

    When I started planning for my first solo trip, I turned my nose up at guidebooks. Why bother paying for information that I can easily get online? Three generations of Lonely Planet’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring guide Though I refused to shell out Php 1,000 for a Lonely Planet Thailand, I ended up buying…

  • Just Wandering’s Travel Essentials Giveaway

    Five years ago, I made up my mind to stop talking about wanting to travel and actually travel. That decision proved to be a pivotal moment in my life: from January 2006 to December 2010, I have traveled farther and traveled a lot more than I ever thought I would. Along with researching about my…

  • Where are you going for the holidays?

    [UPDATE] The promo has been extended to January 31, 2011! Please click on the image for details. My brother and his family came home to spend the holidays in the Philippines. I tagged along with them to Boracay (where I’m writing this post from) for some R & R. I usually spend the holidays at…