Each of us has a Dream Trip; something that we hope to do SOMEDAY. But for a lot of people, the trip fails to takeoff and so SOMEDAY becomes NEVER. But given practical problems like a hectic schedule or economic constraints (a fancy way of saying being broke), how can the dream trip become a […]
Author: PinayTraveller
This article caught my eye, not only because I would like to see these treasures for myself someday, but also because I didn’t realize that these places are under threat. By Sean O’Neill (via Budget Travel) You’ve heard the grim timelines: if warming continues, the Great Barrier Reef will be bleached by 2030; glaciers in the […]
I have been praying for a chance to go to the beach since the beginning of April. (You can read me whine about it here.) And after being buried in work four weeks prior to Holy Week, the perfect opportunity finally landed on my lap. Last week, a friend called, asking me to do “something” […]
A group of 11 students taking up Masters in Management from the University of the Philippines Mindanao is vying for the top prize of Intrepid Travelers’ Intrepid Ultimate Inca Encounter Competition, a worldwide contest, whose prize is to send the entire group to Peru on a hiking expedition to Machu Picchu! They call themselves the […]
Toughest Place to be a Bus Driver: Surviving Manila Traffic
By PinayTraveller on April 11, 2011Here’s a documentary about a London bus driver who went to Manila to experience being a jeepney driver. The link was sent to me by my sis-in-law who lives in the UK but I never got to see it in full. And then a couple of days ago, I found out that the Manila leg […]
