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Red Planet Amorsolo, Philippines: REDefining The Value Hotel Experience

“Good evening, ma’m.”, the guard eloquently greeted as he held the door open. Breathless and flushed and famished and nursing a ballet show hangover, fellow travel blogger Darwin of Tracking Treasure and I stumbled (not literally, though it felt like so after striding/pirouetting all the way from Makati’s Little Tokyo) into Red Planet’s ground floor…

How Important Is Travel Insurance?

As soon as you start to book a local or international holiday, there is sure to be some company out there that will try to sell you travel insurance. You may well be caught up in the excitement of planning the trip of a lifetime and the last thing you want to think about is…

Wanderskye Backpack Rain Cover Giveaway

I’ve fallen in love with a new backpacking buddy. And it’s proudly Pinoy! Wanderskye is a Filipino brand which offers a line of travel accessories that are not only practical, their Filipino-designed prints scream YOLO and they inspire you to stray the heck away from your comfort zone (at least, that’s the idea). Wanderskye Backpack…

5 Best Places To Go In Philippines For An Amazing Trip

Known for its picturesque destinations and vast variety of resorts and water-sports, the Philippines consists of 7,107 islands. Many destinations are still relatively unknown to tourists. The economy of the archipelago is largely dependent on tourism and people from all over the world visit the Philippines as their holiday destination. The tourism of the islands…

Gold Coast Adventures With DriveNow Car Rental

We all get a craving for adventure once in a while. Okay, in our case, we get a craving for it almost all the time. Especially when we’re in Australia, a country I now call my second home. With its sparkling beaches and dense bushlands and funtheme parks, there is something for every kind of…

Tasmania Mania: From Autumn Leaves To Spring Blooms

I wish I could sing the line, “The cold never bothered me anyway!”, and own it. But the cold has always bothered this tropical island girl (as much as that Frozen song Let It Go bothered a million parents). The cold has in fact, terrorized me a few occasions in the past. And that’s basically…

Kenya Tourist Visa On Arrival

Travel warning is still in place. A quick visit to the Kenya travel guide page on Wikitravel will make a traveler postpone or cancel his/her trip, no thanks (or thanks) to that red warning box which greets site visitors hello. Now you may have landed here because you’re one of them unalarmed by the recent…

Yerevan, Armenia: The Armenian Genocide Museum

[Warning: A couple of graphic images in this post.] No words. Just concealed tears. The air felt stiff. So stiff it smothered my senses. I was painfully looking at a black and white photo of Armenian doctors hanged at Aleppo Square, 1916. In my peripheral view I caught sight of other visitors, barely moving, fixated…

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