For a mum backpacking with a three year-old, getting up at 5:15 AM to catch transportation for an eleven-hour border crossing is forecasted to be somewhat of a nightmare. It’s either you tame a raging bull of a child or sleepily carry her dead weight whilst toting three other bags to the colectivo or minibus…
visa runs and applications
Jamaica Tourist Visa Application In Australia
Turquoise waters, jerk chicken, reggae, local rum, and everything Bob Marley! The Caribbean summons your holiday-starved soul… You heed the call but your poor passport needs to get a dang visa (check Wikipedia, or better, contact the Jamaican Consulate in your country to know if you have to obtain one). Citizens of more than 100…
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…
Honduras-Nicaragua Border Crossing
Relatively painless. Not as adventurous as braving the pandemonium that is the do-it-yourself procedure which involves chicken buses and tuktuks and uncertainty (and sometimes a dash of horror). But hey, if you got a few more bucks to throw in, why not take the uncomplicated path such as the Tica Bus way? Tica Bus terminal…
Nepal Tourist Visa On Arrival For Filipinos
Easy peasy. A polar opposite of even the most undemanding Himalayan trek. Okay, that comparison’s quite silly. Nepal tourist visa is available on arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport (at its land borders as well) and can be obtained fuss-free by almost all nationalities so long as requirements are met. How to apply, you ask? Requirements…
Border Crossing: Overland By Bus/Marshrutka From Tbilisi, Georgia To Yerevan, Armenia
The driver slammed his cab’s boot shut, as if to seal our two-week Georgia affair tight. He drove without a word. We were at the finish line of one Caucasus journey, and were about to begin afresh in a neighboring country. Yet another border cross my passport with a detached cover had to survive. I…
How To Apply For A Turkey Tourist Visa In The Philippines
Türkiye, why only fifteen days? Whyyy (Looks at the sky with fists up in the air)?! … Snaps back to reality. Merhaba! Just flew in Istanbul today from Singapore, with a three-hour layover in Abu Dhabi International Airport. Though sleep-deprived, my heart’s racing. A couple of hours into our Turkey trip, I’ve already fallen in…
How To Apply For A Russia Tourist Visa In The Philippines
Between you my fellow Pinoy backpacker and fulfilling that Trans-Siberian dream is a Russia tourist visa on a fierce stance with a heart attack-inducing price tag. You think of raising the white flag without even putting up a fight, but deep down you know those images of rustic Siberian houses hugging the Trans-Siberian railway will…
Brazil Tourist Visa Application In Lima, Peru
As of writing, Filipinos can visit Brazil for 90 days without applying for a visa beforehand. So I expect to sashay through Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport’s immigration counter without hassle about a couple of weeks from now. Awesome ain’t it? The hubby and our daughter though, as Australians, applied for the tourist visa. If…
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….