Lakbay Philippines

During the 2008 Kadayawan festival, and in the midst of the MOA-AD (Memorandum of Agreement – Ancestral Domain) conflict between MILF and Philippine government forces, I braved the vast lands of Mindanao for 8 days. I traveled from Cagayan De Oro to Davao City via Buda without incident, but unlucky for some their bus got [...]

One of the getaways I love is nature trekking. Compared to mountain climbing, it’s a lot easier and isn’t as sophisticated. You would not require as much equipment and stamina. I love the long walks in forests, hills, or alongside rivers. It’s like a journey not only to your destination, but within yourself as well. [...]

Gawd, it started last last week. I went off to Moalboal and brought my skimboard and lo! I had big waves to play with! I spent the whole morning skimming, took a break to eat lunch, went skimming again. In the afternoon, we hired a “snorkel boat” – a boat that looks like a banca but [...]

Malapascua is known to most of my friends as having the best sunsets in Cebu, on top of its being a good beach destination. They encouraged me to go there and I did, with my cousins. I took pictures of the sunset and they were magnificent. I couldn’t do justice to its beauty by capturing [...]

Before island-hopping became mainstream phenomenon here in Cebu, we were able to do it on a cut deal – 1 banca good for around Php2,000 with 20 passengers. It wasn’t popular at that time that’s why it came cheap. The package was good for 3 islands: Hilutungan or (Gilutungan), Pandanon, and Olango. These islands are [...]

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Selamat pagi Malaysia! Sawadeeka Thailand! Chào Vietnam! These are the three Southeast Asia countries I want to visit, and that’s how you say hello (roughly, and please correct me if I am wrong) in their language. I wish I could go to every country in the Southeast Asia region as they’re very interesting. Backpacking in [...]

I didn’t stay long so I didn’t know who the champion was. So here’s the promised pictures from the skim competition. All pictures taken by my skim buddy/photographer Journey Joyce. I wish I was one of the pros… Everyone knows him as Coco, and I think he was he champion.   This guy is from [...]