Living in the Moment: Travel 2018

We don't have any tiring activities lined up for this day. Just pure relaxation and chilling all day long. We started the day with Cara Cara Inn's amazing breakfast. If you're a heavy breakfast eater then the serving might not be enough for you but for me who's not really used to eating breakfast, the serving is just okay. Enough to give me energy. Each day has a different breakfast menu and breakfast is not buffet type. You'll have to give your stub for breakfast then you can choose which one you want for breakfast from the menu of the day. Guess who chose rice for breakfast? Yep, not me. Haha!

April 09, 2020 No comments

Finally!!! The last day on our Myanmar tour! Haha. It took me almost 2 years to finish this blog post but hey.. At least I was able to finish it. The silver lining in this quarantine is that I was able to write this blog post. Planning to write more but it really depends on my mood. Still have work during daytime plus I am also catching on my Netflix backlogs and I'm kinda hooked up with two-point hospital so if I am not watching Netflix, it's either I am playing switch or busy scrolling through my social media accounts to see the latest news about COVID-19.

March 31, 2020 No comments

Prior to this trip, I didn’t really know anything about Mandalay as well as Inle Lake. I just know that I need to visit this country just to see the Bagan hot air balloons. And when I booked our tickets via Air Asia, this is when I only knew there is really a lot of good stuff Myanmar has to offer too. I mean why is this country not as popular as Thailand and Vietnam when there are also a lot of temples, palace, and an amazing view?

February 14, 2020 No comments

Once we arrived in Mandalay, I already knew that this one is a whole lot different than our experience in Bagan. After alighting the minibus that transported us from Bagan to Mandalay, we rode a tuktuk going to our hotel, Royal Pearl Hotel. Our hotel is perfectly situated inside the city and getting a ride to different places in Mandalay is a breeze. Since we arrived at the hotel around the afternoon already, I made it sure that our itinerary for the day is just simple and not so tiring.

February 01, 2020 No comments

It’s been almost 1 year and 6 months since we went to Myanmar and I am sooooooo delayed in writing this down. I can’t remember the tiny details anymore huhu. That’s why it’s always good to write while your memory is still fresh. This is one of the highlights of my 2018 and it just sucks that I didn’t blog about this sooner. I’ll just probably write what I can remember and believe me when I say I don’t really trust my memory that much but I’ll try. hehe. I’ll take notes from the photos I took and see if I can remember something from that. So yep, here it goes…

February 01, 2020 No comments

The photo was taken by Alesi Almario
Ahhhh, Bali. I miss Bali just by writing this here. Bali is my definition of chill and laid back.
You see, this Bali adventure is almost a year in the making. There is much stuff that we need to take care of just so we can finally push this travel through. One is if you know me, you most certainly know I don't book airline tickets with its regular price. I am always counting on seat sale because hell yeah, you can really save a lot of money with that sale and call me weird but finding promo tickets is fun for me. With all the website crashing, the heavy stress load on the website, with everyone on the hunt, it just feels satisfying finding tickets on your preferred dates. :)

August 05, 2019 No comments

Hola!! It's been over a year now since our Myanmar backpacking and I promise I'll try to blog all of these backlogs as fast as I can now. I've been busier than ever because of new work, you know the stuff... Trying to learn as fast as I can so I can be effective in the role right away... And because I'm also fixing requirements for this stuff I've been praying for since I don't know when. Life's just been so pretty darn good in the past days it's like God telling me He or maybe She? Haven't forgotten about me. It's quite an emotional topic for me so I'll blog it maybe some other time. Hehe.

August 04, 2019 No comments

If you've visited Bangkok many times now, you'll eventually run out of things to visit the first time. I mean, food is probably one of the reasons you'll visit Bangkok countless times but if you're into new stuff and exploring new places most of the time, then the third vacation in Bangkok would probably bore you already. I'm not saying I got bored during our vacation in Bangkok because I totally did enjoy but of course, I am one of those people who wants to experience something new whenever they go on vacations.

July 06, 2019 No comments

I'm excited to share with you the final stretch of my Southeast Asia bucket list!!! If you're reading my blog way back 2016, you would know that I am trying to visit all Southeast Asian countries and guess what?! I've finally visited it all!! (Except Brunei and East Timor) Visiting it all (okay maybe not all but I'd like to think it was all, lol) wasn't really my plan when I got hooked up on traveling. I just wanted to experience the culture and explore new cities until I realized that if I wanted to connect the history piece by piece of these countries, I really need to visit it all. My goal was to finish it all before I turn 30 but I was able to visit it all a week before my 25th birthday (Bali, Indonesia is the last location and Myanmar being 2nd to the last).

June 30, 2019 No comments

This is our second to the last day in Bangkok. As for Ton, this is her last day because she'll be going back to Manila a day earlier than us. This is actually my second time now in the grand palace (first time here) and it still never fails to amaze me. I mean guys, if you have to visit at least one temple, then this is it.

May 14, 2019 No comments

Vendor at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

I've been to Bangkok a lot of times but this is my first time visiting Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. And by far, this is one of the nicest floating markets I've been to. It is literally, a "FLOATING MARKET" where people can buy goods from the sellers in the boats. When I first went to Ho Chi Minh, we are told that we will be seeing a floating market in the Mekong River but what we imagined was different from the actual floating market they have there.

May 03, 2019 No comments

It was our third day backpacking and this I swear is one of my most hassle days in 2018. I am not exaggerating that. We had a very stressful problem with our Airbnb host and Agoda booking. But first, let me start the post by narrating how we did border crossing by land!

I am always a fan of border crossing because living in the Philippines means we don't have a neighboring country that we could travel to by land so it was really fun crossing borders and observing how just by one single border changes how the way people live. This is most evident when we crossed the Laos-Thailand border. The way the drivers navigate is different from both countries. In Laos, they follow right-hand drive while in Thailand, they follow left-hand drive. So you could literally see differences by just how we changed lanes when we arrive in the border of Thailand. Little things like that fascinate me.

March 16, 2019 No comments

Looking and marveling the beauty of Angkor Wat

Our day 2 had us waking up very early in the morning. We woke up like 4AM so we can catch the sunrise over Angkor Wat. Based on my research, it is one of the most anticipated events for tourists who want to see Angkor Wat. And if you're visiting Siem Reap, you haven't really visited Angkor Wat if you didn't visit it's UNESCO world heritage site, Angkor Wat. This temple is so famous Khmer people included this in their flag. Have you noticed? Yup, that's how proud they are because temple symbolizes a win from Siam.

March 01, 2019 No comments

If you read my Singapore travel, you would know that I am on my 6/10 of my Southeast Asian bucket list. And visiting Siem Reap Cambodia means I'm on my 7th country! Sooo sooo close in completing all of it. <3

February 20, 2019 1 comments

Last blog post on our Singapore getaway last January. And yes, it took me 2 months to complete the blog posts. =))) Our last day before we depart for Manila is spent on the famous USS. We also planned on going to Singapore Flyer but unfortunately, it was closed and we weren't notified. Take note that we already bought our tickets from Klook.

April 07, 2018 No comments

What's a trip to Singapore without seeing the iconic Gardens by the Bay and Marina Bay Sands? I don't know about you guys but a trip to Singapore isn't complete without a visit to these places. So on our third day in SG, we planned to visit the most famous Singapore tourist places.

March 09, 2018 1 comments

Trying to finish all of my Singapore blog post to avoid backlogs for this year! haha. I still have my Malaysia backlogs so bear with me. Anyway, let me just say that our second day is the mosttttttt tiring day. At least during the morning.
We didn't expect to walk a lot and under hot weather condition. Well, we do know that we will walk but we just didn't expect to double the walking on our first day. And that's just the first half of the day!

February 16, 2018 No comments

Just came back from a fun and well-deserved vacation in Singapore. Actually, I don’t have any plans to visit SG anytime soon as I want to cap off my Southeast Asia travel bucket list there so my original plan is to visit it as the last country in my SEA bucket list. What pushed me to book a ticket and a 5 day one (they say 3 days are already enough to see SG) is purely not for vacation.

February 04, 2018 No comments

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