Travel Guides
This archive is a collection of detailed travel guides by a traveler for travelers and backpackers on a budget. It also includes itinerary, places to visit, where to stay and sample budget.
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YUP Korean Barbecue: The Cheapest Unlimited Samgyupsal I’ve Ever Experienced in South!
“Friday nights should be celebrated.” This is what I always tell myself on Friday nights since for me, it is a way of paying for the hard work I’ve had all through out the week. It is the time where I let go of all my stress, exhaustion and anxiety from my day job. I have various ways to celebrate my Friday nights. It’s either I hit the hay early for some good sleep or go out with friends and family to pig out (though it sounded more like I am stress eating). Most of the time, I choose the latter as I get to spend quality time over a …
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Art in Island’s Hiwaga ng Pilipinas: An Attraction Straight Out of Your Imagination
After they introduced the fascinating 3D + Media Art Show in 2017, Art in Island, the biggest 3D Art Museum in Asia, launched their newest attraction called Hiwaga ng Pilipinas yesterday, November 11, 2018. Hiwaga brings the different treasures of the Philippines together through the black light art that will surely amaze young and old alike. The Hiwaga ng Pilipinas Experience At the entrance, I was stamped with an invisible mark that came with surprise as it lightened upon my entrance to a whole new magical world brought by the attraction. As I entered the dark room, I saw the beauty in black and was surprised by thousands of stunning…
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The Villa: Your Next AirBnB Target in Don Salvador Benedicto
Don Salvador Benedicto is a landlocked town on the East side of Negros Occidental. It is a home to arrays of pine trees, cool climate, sweet and fresh fruits, cafes, waterfalls and other natural wonders that will surely make your stay in the town worthwhile. Few months ago, I visited Don Salvador Benedicto and I was truly in awe and in love with the place’s vibe not to mention the very cheap yet grand AirBnB by Vacation Villas in KM 55 that I discovered. Just a week ago, I was back to the place and I must say, I missed its vibe and the coffee! The cold breeze just and…
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Zen in the City by Balay Hilom Spa
If there’s one thing that I’d always like to avoid as much as possible, it is actually commuting to and around Manila as it is quite stressful and suffocating. The traffic, the noise and the volume of people in every place is just too much for me. But who would have thought that a piece of this urbanized place would make me experience zen? and yes, I found it in Balay Hilom Spa. Experience Zen in the City “Balay Hilom” was derived from a regional word ‘Balay‘ which means house and a Tagalog word ‘Hilom‘ which means heal. Thus, this gives us ‘House of Healing’. Nestled in a corner of…
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Why Fantastic Baka should be your favorite Korean Restaurant
Much about the Korean culture has made a lot of Filipinos go gaga – its boy and girl group of young and talented artists, their music, their heartfelt TV dramas, their delectable food and more. This also has made a lot fly to the country to experience these things first hand. Taking this fad as an opportunity, a lot of Korean restaurants rose in different corners of the Metro. Just then, the words ‘samgyupsal’, or “unlimited Korean barbecue” is never out of everyone’s discourse. It has also become a thing shared by friends and family over good stories and laughter. pick that pork up, dip it in, wrap it in…
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A Trip Down to the South: Things to Do and Places to Visit in Tagaytay City
A neighboring town to cities that hustle 24/7, Tagaytay City has been always a fitting weekender to everyone who would like to loosen up and unwind. In just two hours away from the metro, you’ll get to feel its freshest air, cool breeze matched with an awe-striking picturesque view of Taal lake and its majestic volcano. More often than not, people only have a place or two in mind that’s on their list when thinking of visiting Tagaytay City. With that, let me tell you that there’s much more that you can actually visit and do in this town with your friends and family. Things to do and Places to…
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Taal Volcano: A Trek to the Smallest Active Volcano in the Philippines
Got a good wide snap of Taal Volcano’s crater with my Yi 4k+ action camera mounted on 1.2m monopod. I used to believe that the ‘Taal Volcano’ that I saw in Philippine post cards and textbooks when I was still in Primary school was the real Taal Volcano. Not until we moved to Tagaytay City and found out that my whole life was (partly) a lie. That seriously small volcano was not the Taal Volcano but it’s called ‘Binintiang Malaki’ which is only a caldera of the whole volcano. Taal Volcano is considered to be the smallest active one in the world. It is actually an island in a lake found…
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Backpacking Philippines in 12 days with 2Go Travel
There’s no better place to feel infinite but my land – Philippines. I was and I will be forever surprised of the thousandfold of visually arresting scenes that awaits in every corner of this blessed archipelago with each effortlessly making our hearts skip a beat and make reality better than expectations. All I needed to do is step out of the threshold, swing to the fullest and open my eyes and heart to brand new adventures and awaken the ready to go spirit in me! So I did – given the once in a lifetime opportunity spearheaded by 2Go Travel. It was a scorching hot afternoon of May as I…
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Naranjo Water Park: The Best Place to Enjoy and Explore Antique’s Bugang River
Shining out from being eclipsed by its nearby provinces namely Capiz, Iloilo and Aklan, Antique’s unspoilt beauty has been recently and gradually being brought into the limelight; patronized and shared by a lot of travelers through their visual stories and word of mouth. Antique is a province in the sixth region of the Philippines, geographically situated in Western Visayas. Well, there are basically a lot of stuff that you can do and places you can visit in Antique more than what you can imagine. But, stripping all the frequently tourist-populated ones and done in the list in this quiet and peaceful province of Panay Island gives us this – Bugang River.…
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