“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen The beach has healed much of my emotional wounds in the past. Mind you, without even the aid of alcohol. I regard such as utterly amazing. Each of us (some collectively) flock to heavenly shores under the command of…
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Snapshot Saturday: Black (and White) Saturday
Not-So Refreshingly Sri Lanka
Snapshot Saturday: Elephant Pond
Abhayagiri Giant Pond (also called Elephant Pond) in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.A pond six times the size of an olympic swimming pool, could date back from 1 BC (gasp!) to 11 AD. Used by monks, about 5,000 of them, for their water requirements. Now that’s heaps! TweetShare This page was viewed times.
How To Apply for A Sri Lanka Tourist Visa In The Philippines
Is way less cumbersome than applying for an India tourist visa. No expensive shuttles to the embassy, no long queues (actually, no queues at all!). And like India, Sri Lanka provides visa on arrival to Filipinos as well. However, we chose to apply for a visa beforehand, by reason of preventing a possible immigration hassle….
Snapshot Saturday: Baguio Bliss
Camp John HayYesterday, we somberly moved out of our Baguio abode. It was our home for five months. As a modern nomadic family, we gotta relocate once more to explore other habitats, and hopefully find that ideal place to “settle down”… whenever/if ever that happens in the future. Contest alert! As a farewell treat (we…
Arrival Turned Fans’ Day
Tarlac-Angeles-Singapore-Kuala Lumpur-Tiruchirappalli-Madurai. Whew! Day and a half travel frenzy en route to our Couchsurfing host’s house in India. A bit crazier than our 3 countries in one day experience. It took 3 planes, 3 buses, 2 jeeps, 2 cabs, 1 minibus, 1 trike, 1 tuktuk, and 1 motorbike to take us there. Yes, we love…
Snapshot Saturday: A Candlelit Dinner For Mother Earth
Dinner by candlelight at Jack’s, Session Road.We turned off our house lights way before Earth Hour this evening, and that’s because we dined out. At exactly 8:30 PM, gastro hot spots (from cheapies to posh) lined up along Session Road transformed into romantic bistros as waiters lit the candles on their customers’ tables. It looked…
Sleepless In Batanes
In some parts of the Philippines, the world barely exists at 4:15 AM. Definitely not in Manila Domestic Airport. Its departure area’s already a frenetic scene of foreign backpackers poring over guide books and business travelers surfing via mobile web. The air smelt of coffee. I longed for a cup. I had no sleep at…
