Last April 26, four members of the Philippine team of the Lighthouse Club (LHC) joined the club’s annual Mt. Kinabalu climb for charity, and reached the summit of Southeast Asia’s highest peak.
This homey garden offers a refreshing break from the city. You can choose to go for the day or stay the night and enjoy Sonya’s fresh fare and relaxing amenities. Go for the set menu to get the full Sonya experience. Try the salad with her special homemade dressing. (It’s so good you’d want to bring a bottle home—and you can!) The pasta is good too. Make sure to drop by the bakery and bring home cheese hopia and pinwheel cookies.
Thirty-seven years after the end of the Vietnam War, the country’s cultural and official capital, Hanoi, still seems mysterious to many Filipinos.
It’s been a long while since I returned to the ocean, my “home,” so to speak, second to the forests. To see and marvel at the richness of the seas! The biodiversity is indeed unmatched!
FREE TRIP TO BALI Three Twitter followers, together with their respective companions, earned a free round-trip ticket, plus hotel accommodations, to Bali, Indonesia, after they were picked during a raffle draw of
Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ adapted into a film with Julia Roberts starring, made Bali a site for soul-searching.
“My personal favorite destination is not really a secret one because it’s quite well-known. It’s the good old Miniloc Resort of El Nido because it’s what I would consider almost perfect. You live in a water cottage or a room by the beach. There’s a cove in front of you where you have a white sand beach and the bottom slopes gradually—perfect for swimming. Then at the edge of the resort’s wooden jetty, you can snorkel with jacks. Now how many places in the world can you have such things literally in front of your cottage? Then of course, there are other options beyond the resort. There’s kayaking, cave exploration, snorkeling, and diving. Also, when you cruise around the nearby islands, everything is still pristine. You barely see any human habitation or bare patches. Your banca just skims over clear water that changes from turquoise to mineral water-clear. A sea breeze blows in your face and you pass island after island, each with its own small, beautiful cove. Really, how good does it get?
Snap-happy netizens, rejoice! After being given a taste of things to come at the Samsung SEA Forum in Bangkok last month, we finally get to see the first of the WiFi-enabled Smart Cameras hitting Philippine shores, just in time for summer vacation.
Off the Camarines Norte coast in Bicolandia, facing the turbulent Pacific Ocean, is a captivating cluster of 17 islands—known by the generic name of Calaguas—which are becoming the buzzword in ecodestinations.
Before it was the Maldives. Now I like the Monastery of Transfiguration in Bukidnon. It offers a different kind of spa, a spiritual one where one can cleanse out all the negativities inside – hurts, uncertainties, doubts, anger and all the things that make one unhappy. I spent my Holy Week there and the retreatants left the monastery experiencing the best Easter in their lives, me included. It was such an enriching experience far better than being on the beach or a DVD marathon.
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