Budget Travelling Tips
More than a year ago, around April 2009, I was chatting with four guys that I met in a hostel in Vientiane, Laos, a 50+ year old guy from New Zealand, a 30+ year old guy from Japan and the two mid -20s guys from Argentina and USA. Murray, the guy from New Zealand asked [...]
I received an email last week from Lauren of Abandon the Cube about an update on the Mongol Rally, a charity event that will benefit Mercy Mongolia. I was thrilled to know that they were able to achieve their target. A brief information about Mongol Rally from ATC: “The Mongol Rally began several years ago [...]
Lakshmi is the first Asian (aside from my fellow Filipinos) that I featured in this segment. Her blog usually talks about travels in her home country which is also one of my favorite destinations, India. One should never miss out India in their itineraries because this country is the most culturally alive country that I’ve [...]
Most countries if not all have Chinatowns, here in Singapore aside from of course Chinatown, they also have an Indiantown (I know it’s corny, can’t blame me for trying eh lol) they call Little India. I first step foot on Little India on my first travel outside the country. If I remember it correctly, it [...]
Do you collect stuff from your travels? I used to buy a lot of small trinkets and stuff like that until I realized that it makes my backpack heavier and after travelling for six months (continuously) I realized that it eats up my money and weigh me down as well. Here’s a list of what [...]
Anthony Zupancic is one of the authors of Riding Out the Economy, one of the newest blog that I’m following. Their adventures seem to be a real fun and inspiring. As stated in their blog, “We will be buying motorcycles and cruising Asia until the US Economy rebounds enough to rationalize a return home to [...]
I’ve been asked a lot of times on why I travel a lot. And I tried to define it for countless of times. Here’s a list of the usual answers that I’ve given those who asked me: 1. To see stuff 2. To experience stuff 3. To escape stuff Looking back, I think I wasn’t [...]
Sagada is located in a valley near the central Cordillera between the mountains of main Cordillera Ranges and the Ilocos Range. It is just beside Bontoc, the provincial capital of Mt. Province and is only a few hours from Baguio. According to many, one of a must go to destinations in the Philippines is Sagada. [...]
I met Kuya Rolly when I was in Coron a couple of weeks ago. He would probably be the only non-blogging person as of now that I have featured here in the ‘Meet the Nomads’ section. Nevertheless, he’s a true blue backpacker. I was amazed when he told me that he hitched a boat going [...]
The Banaue Rice terraces found in the mountains of Philippines has been described as the eight wonder of the world. More than 2000 years ago, these terraces were made by our ancestors of the Batad Indigenous people without the support of machinery to provide levels like stepping stones to the sky, some reaching an altitude [...]
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