The trip to Hua Hin, Thailand, from Bangkok is a smooth three-hour drive, with roadside scenery that would easily remind one of our very own South Luzon Expressway (minus the unfinished roadwork). The laid-back seaside town, with its white-sand shores and luxury hotels, is just 200 km south of bustling Bangkok—close enough to the city for a couple of nights on the beach.
I was very excited when, in our meeting of the Administrative Council of Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB), the international association of Benedictine abbesses and prioresses, it was decided that our conference this year would be in West Africa—Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Benin!
A visit to Batangas City ofers travelers and Balikbayans a kaleidoscope of the old and new Batangas and the spirit of harmony between the past and present in the 60-room
So the wakeboarders have discovered the Philippines, and the surfing scene is alive and stoked. After almost 1,000 dives and 22 years of making bubbles here and abroad, I still believe that, illegal fishing and embattled coral reefs notwithstanding, our country offers some of the best diving on earth.
A few years ago, the Manila art crowd was abuzz over the multi-museum Amorsolo exhibits. On display was a whole range of works by one of our most famous National Artists.
If ever there is the perfect time to visit Poland, it would be this year with the world celebrating the beatification rites of the Polish Pope John Paul II (sometimes called JP2 & Lolek), easily the most popular prelate in recent history.
Theater leading ladies Cris Villonco and Joanna Ampil will alternate as Maria Rainer in Resorts World Manila’s staging of the musical “Sound of Music.”
Far from the proverbial madding crowd—tourist traps in Jaipur, the capital city of Rajashtan state—the City Palace, Amber Palace and Jaigarh Forts, the touts and hassles that wait by the temple entrances, by the side streets of Hawa Mahal and the rows upon rows of ancient shops inside the Wall City—are the sprawling hidden gardens of Jaipur, serene and tranquil in their beauty.
You can do your share to help the environment and offset your carbon emissions each time you travel, by booking your flights via Cebu Pacific (CEB) website. The website will estimate the carbon emissions based on the distance of your flight, and you can opt to donate an amount based on that calculation to CEB’s Bright Skies for Every Juan program.
If there was anything that could most fittingly describe our brief journey into Oporto in Portugal, it would be comfort, familiarity—a strange feeling of having somehow been there before in some long forgotten past, and an inkling that we had something to learn from this visit.
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