Prowling through the different universes…
Say “Batanes”, and aside from the scenery, mention of the lighthouses will inevitably happen. For most of my countrymen, Batanes evokes images of Philippine islands which do not normally follow the usual terrain of the rest of the country, though it also has beaches and mountains found in its sister islands. Perhaps because of its […]
The first time I visited Taiwan, I missed seeing Shifen’s eponymously-named waterfall. As we were staying in Jiufen, my second chance to view it happened – so here we are traveling on the Pingxi Line. Located on the upper reaches of Keelung River, the Shifen Waterfalls’ total height is 20 meters (66 ft) and 40 […]
Famous tourist attractions are understandably in a tourist’s bucket list but I do try including off-the-beaten track destinations in my travel itinerary. For this stay in Tokyo, I opted for seeing more of YANESEN – this is an acronym for YAnaka, NEzu, and SENdagi. These belong to a short list of areas in Tokyo that was spared […]
For most of my life I have been living in Cebu City, which is only 5 hours away (via a 4-hour bus and a 1-hour ferry ride) from Bantayan , and yet I have only visited this little paradise of an island a handful of times. Bantayan, which is located near the northern tip of […]