Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of children in the Philippines. The hospitality we experienced from the Filipinos is incomparable to anywhere else I’ve traveled so far. Everyone was incredibly kind, and welcoming. They were often curious and wanted to talk with us, but always in […]
To be honest, before traveling to the Philippines, I didn’t know a whole lot about the country’s history. It isn’t really a subject US schools cover, despite the fact we ruled the Philippines for almost 50 years. I at least knew about the US ruling (which is something most Americans don’t even seem to know), and I […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of towering towers of buns in Hong Kong. It’s that time of year again, when the people of Cheung Chau–a small island fishing village in Hong Kong, are busy preparing paper-mache deities, sewing beautiful costumes, baking “lucky” buns, and sticking them […]
The Philippines is an island nation made up of over 7,000 islands– yes, you read that right, seven thousand. 7,107 islands to be exact, and only around 2,000 of them are inhabited. At over 22,500 miles, it’s ranked 4th in the world for the length of its coastline, and all that coastline can only mean one thing– […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of the famous Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. It’s impossible to talk about Malaysia without talking about seeing the Petronas Towers. There was a point in time where I wanted to visit Kuala Lumpur solely to see the Petronas Towers. […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of Medan Pasar in Kuala Lumpur. Walking away from Central Market you’ll find yourself in Medan Pasar, or Market Square. This area was once the capital’s banking and shopping hub back in the 1920s, although today there is really nothing there […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of a gentoo penguin in Hong Kong. Today is World Penguin Day, and as Johnny’s favorite animal, I felt the need to pay tribute to these cute flightless birds. I honestly never gave much though to penguins before meeting Johnny, and I […]
Easter and Holy Week are a pretty big deal in the Philippines, which is one of the most religious countries in the world, with over 95% of the population actively practicing religion. Their religious roots trace all the way back to around 1500 thanks to Magellan accidentally landing in Cebu during his search for the […]
This week we would like to welcome back Agness of eTramping. Agness and Cez were some of the first travel bloggers I interviewed for my Travel Tuesdays segment. At eTramping you can find plenty of budget travel tips on how to travel the world with $25 in your pocket. They both have been traveling and living in different Asian countries since […]
If you watch the world news, you’ve probably heard of Bohol. Located east of Cebu, Bohol is the 10th largest island in the Philippines, and was once a popular tourist destination for both local Filipinos and foreign visitors. Tragically, in October 2013, it was devastated by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. The whole region of the […]