One of the country’s top stylists, Victor Ortega, has a vision: to make Boracay known as “Victor Ortega island.” As it is, he’s the most popular supplier of massage services, not only in his spas and salons, but also in deluxe resorts. He started with two salons at Station One at D’Mall, and established the island’s only luxury salon at Boracay Shangri-La.
Have you ever eagerly packed your bags and headed out of the city for a vacation, expecting peace and quiet while lying on the sand in some far-off paradise only to find it swarming with other vacationers?
For acrophobiacs like me, standing at more than a hundred feet above the ground takes a lot of guts. But the exhilarating view from the Busan Tower of the city’s well-preserved mountains, amid the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, replaces fear with bliss and amazement.
Just a few meters from the main Tokyo train station, the new Shangri-La Tokyo is like a welcome oasis for the weary traveler. An escape from the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo, it is a place where one is welcomed by warm hotel staff and surrounded by the elegant ambiance synonymous with the Shangri-La experience.
More often than not, people are carried away by the novelty of it all. In a luxury resort, you pay a fee to fish a baby turtle out of a tank and “release” it into the wild. In Oslob, Cebu, people are going wild over the “touching” relationship between fishermen and the whale sharks they habitually feed.
Welcome to the mountains!” said The Manor managing director Heinrich Maulbecker, by way of greeting the Manila trimedia who came over that weekend for the Panagbenga, upon the invitation of The Manor at Camp John Hay.
Mount Abu, a popular hill station in Rajasthan, northern India, stands majestically like a jagged rock in the desert of the Aravalli mountain range.
Learn how to tango. Unearth the secrets to a mouth-watering paella. Marvel at the beauty and magnificence of La Sagrada Familia.
If there is one thing we can learn from the people of Tiaong, Quezon, it is having pride of place. Proof of that is the recent publication of “Tiaong: Coming Into Its Own,” a coffee-table book written by Abe Florendo, with archival research by Dulce Festin Baybay and Dr. Luis C. Dery.
Between photo shoots, deadlines, and minor dilemmas, I was definitely looking forward to a breather. As it was my first trip to “The Land of Smiles,” my thoughts could be summed up in four words: Thailand, here I come!
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