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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…

Pink Manila Hostel Review: The Hostel Of Awesome

It must have been my fourth bottle of the night. I bummed a smoke off an American and invited myself to a circle of conversation about Caucasus and how blatantly Middle Eastern the other American guy’s nose is. The guy himself revealed his Armenian heritage later on which led us to the touchy discussion of…

San Sebastian Church, Manila: Swept Off My Feet!

Faces were a blur as I fleeted past them. I was running late. I criss-crossed my way from Quiapo Church to an unfamiliar destination via an underpass and a hectic street, bumping into pedestrians and devotees and medicinal herb hawkers. I was on my way to Illuminati Travel and Tours’ grand launch. Co-owner Joel Aldor,…

Snapshot Saturday: Spectacular Steel Structure

Basilica Minore de San SebastiánI remember the second I stepped in this church… I looked up, stared at its gorgeous ceiling and whispered, “Where have you been all my life?”. It’s just in Manila folks. You gotta see this all-steel Neo-Gothic marvel. Thanks to Illuminati Travel and Tours I was brought here. Cheers to your…

Mother’s Day at Manila Zoo

My first Mother’s Day! Okay, so I’m not a full-on mum yet since I’m still 5 months on the way but hubby and I already felt like celebrating. My OB-Gyne found out through ultrasound that I have a low-lying placenta two weeks ago, so going out of town was strictly not an option. Then we’re…

Voluntourism

Travel to the fullest! And by that, I don’t mean party like there’s no tomorrow. Make your trip more meaningful by getting involved in ‘voluntourism’, or volunteerism while on vacation. Just last January 28, we finally had the time to attend Hands On Manila’s volunteer orientation at Powerbook’s Greenbelt. That’s where we got introduced to…

Forget Climate Change

Smoke gobbling Manila. View of Malate, Paco and Sampaloc from Burgundy Westbay Tower’s Roofdeck.Streets of Manila turn into war zones every New Year’s Eve. And the annual theme: Forget poverty, forget climate change. Considered as one of the happiest people on the planet, the Filipinos greeted 2010 with a bang. Literally. Despite catastrophic Typhoon Ondoy’s…

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