Memories of Siquijor: from Bandilaan to Salagdoong (last of 2 parts)
View part 1 of the Siquijor series here. On our second day in Siquijor, the ‘engineer’ unrolled before us a map of the island. His neighbors…
Memories of Siquijor: beyond the mystery, magic and myth (first of 2 parts)
View part 2 of the Siquijor series here. Many, many summers ago, my friends and I found ourselves in a beautiful, laidback island called Siquijor.…
Enroute to Yogyakarta
I think I may have caught some form of sleep a few minutes after our train left Jakarta. I could not remember anymore when I…
Mt. Apo: at the rooftop of the Philippines (last of 2 parts)
Part 1 of the series here. Aside from taking the mandatory jumpshots, there are so many things you can do at the top of Mt.…
Mt. Apo: at the rooftop of the Philippines (first of 2 parts)
Part 2 of the series here. It was not yet raining when our small Mt. Apo team met at the Davao City airport one Thursday…
Dubai and my first Visita Iglesia
“Would you rather be stuck or be lost?” my highschool classmate Gwynne casually asked me as our small tour bus cruised along Sheik Zayed Road.…
Glimpses of Jakarta
It was way past midnight when I stepped outside the Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Jakarta. The brick hallways were understandably deserted at this hour,…
Calauit: A delightful and complicated anomaly
Among the many beautiful tropical islands in the Philippines, Calauit is a delightful and complicated anomaly. It is part of the Calamianes, a cluster of…
Dinagat Diaries (first of 2 parts)
I am not sure if my travel companions sensed my relief as we boarded M/BCA Seahorse Express at the boulevard in Surigao City. We were…
The Sounds of Buscalan
Buscalan, in Kalinga, was very much alive when Andrew and I arrived there one Sunday morning in September. We were greeted with the curious stares…