Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds
Egypt opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies.
Samar used to be synonymous with storms, while Northern Samar has some towns famous for coconut and fish produce, like San Antonio, also known as Dalupirit Island.
COSTABELLA Tropical Beach Hotel this year marks its 35th anniversary. Opened in 1981 with eight spacious family rooms, it was a pioneer resort in the island of Mactan, put up by Luis “Sitoy” Alvarez and Merceditas Borromeo-Alvarez.
A visit to the museum may sound as romantic as a trip to the supermarket’s hardware section, but not when it’s featuring actual artifacts such as plates, glasses, cutlery, trunks and articles of clothing salvaged more than 70 years later from the ill-fated Titanic (ongoing at the ArtScience Museum until April 29), which sank in frigid waters of the North Atlantic exactly a century ago.
Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs, Hong Kong's flaccid fashion scene has long struggled to compete with the sartorial cool of Tokyo's Harajuku, or the street style of Hongdae in Seoul.
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
It is late as we write this. We’ve been on standby for a call from somewhere close to the North Pole. No, the call won’t be coming from Santa Claus, but rather from Ezra Miller. Yes, Ezra Miller, who brought chills down our spines when he played Tilda Swinton’s crazy son in “We Need To Talk About Kevin.” Miller is most remembered for recently playing the brilliant and tender-hearted Patrick in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”
Japan is on a roll—achieving its target of having 10 million tourists recently, after relaxing its visa regulations for Southeast Asian countries.
Turning old and beautiful houses into restaurants serving Filipino food may seem like a trend, but in fact, it’s simply a shift in the right direction—breathing new life into otherwise idle structures.
Vigan, the only World Heritage City in the country (as declared by Unesco in 1999), has a new high-end address right in its heritage district: Hotel Luna at Gen. Antonio Luna St. cor Ventura de los Reyes St. It had a grand opening on Feb. 8.
Climbers raise their arms as they view the sunrise from the peak of Mt. Fuji on Sunday, the first day this season visitors could access the trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
