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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Your Ultimate DIY Travel Guide to Siargao Island 2025
I spent most of my days in there barefoot – with tiny white shells on a string dangling on my right ankle. Everyday, my hair gets too briny and my skin gets tanner than ever. I could instantly hit the beach and bury my feet in the sand when I want to as I could just hop into a motorbike and drive few minutes down to Cloud 9. At dusk, we’d hang out on the beach to get some cheap mango ice candy that tastes heaven available at the entrance of the tower, an overpriced fruit shake or a bottle of beer while waiting for the gorgeous hues of sunset…
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Bantayan Island DIY Travel Guide 2025
Giving into hearsays that Bantayan has the best beaches in Cebu, I willingly traded my view of the busy streets to the towering coconut trees aligned at the long stretch of white beaches of this enchanting island. To see it for myself is quite unbaffling as to why it has been among the top favorite destinations in the province. Beautiful is an understatement — humbly marvelous at the same time laidback would be more fitting. If you wish to be captured the same way it did to everyone who came, here’s a Bantayan Island DIY Travel Guide to start with. About Bantayan Island This idyllic island called Bantayan is cradled…
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Puerto Princesa Underground River DIY Travel Guide 2025
I am a true sucker for the world’s greatest explained and unexplained events and things. I love the feeling of fascination, being curious and learning something new. This eagerness has driven me to explore one of my dream travel destinations in the Philippines, the province of Palawan. After diving into the lagoons and shipwrecks in Coron, admiring the spectacular rock formations, hidden beaches and lagoons of El Nido and basking under the sun in the impossibly perfect beaches of Balabac, I decided to do something new in my return to Puerto Princesa, the fourth leg and the last destination in my Palawan Backpacking. I visited the spot as to what the city…
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Balabac, Palawan Ultimate DIY Travel Guide 2025 (Itinerary + Budget)
My emotions started to well up at the sight of the island but extreme happiness took over. My insides fluttered with joy – ah, euphoria. I drowned into a whirlpool of words. A million drifted through my open mind but none escaped from my very mouth. My lips turned into an upward curve instead that only God knows how long it was like that. I was just staring, lost in the reverie – grateful for the moment, amazed by the incomparably pure and unspoiled beauty. So this is Balabac. How mornings are like in Onuk Island I hankered to run barefoot and feel the fine sand on my feet, the…
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Baler DIY Travel Guide 2025 (Places to Visit + Itinerary)
To be honest, I did not like Baler. In fact, I have avoided it on several occasions. The first time I set foot on it, I asked, “What’s good, Baler?” I thought it was boring and that there’s not much to see in there. I mean, the beach is not as pretty as the ones that I have previously visited – fine, bone-white sand, arrays of palm trees along the beach to complete the tropical vibe. But then, as its history along with the places unknown to me unfolded before me, I have swallowed every word and regretted that I did not choose to explore it when I had a chance.…
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Maragondon Fish Sanctuary 2025 DIY Travel Guide
I have been to Maragondon Fish Sanctuary twice and I can say that it would always be one of those places where I’d run to shall I crave for a breath of fresh air. The daybreak scene, the vast blue cradling the islands and islets, the stark outline of a proud mountain from a different region, the unpredictable harmony of the waves crashing into gigantic volcanic rocks and boulders at the shore, a stunning golden sunset melting into a star-sprinkled night sky – these are all enough to heal my emotionally and mentally-loaded being. While a lot may not see it the way I do, my intention for going there…
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ISABELA PROVINCE TRAVEL GUIDE 2025
Seated at the plains amidst the seemingly unending ranges of the north, Isabela province is actually a home to a lot of off-the-beaten path destinations in the country. With great efforts and a desire to introduce its hidden gems to the world, roads and trails have been started and opened to make these attractions accessible. Apart from the undiscovered natural wonders in its outskirts, the province also boasts a lot of historical, religious and cultural heritages that interestingly tell stories from the past that would make you know and understand Isabela even more. About Isabela Isabela province is situated at the northwest side of mainland Luzon belonging to the second…
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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Visit Coron this 2025
The province of Palawan in the Philippines has been globally recognized by International travel magazines such as Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure as among the best islands in the world. Even those who visited the place from all over the world could attest to that. The town is undeniably promising and captivating even from a top of the mountain to the deepest of the sea which is actually the very reason why you should set your foot into it! To specifically name some, here are the top reasons why you should visit Coron, Palawan in the Philippines. Pristine Beaches Since most of the islands do not accommodate tourists…
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Landingan Viewpoint, Nagtipunan, Quirino Province DIY Travel Guide 2025
We braved a long drive leaving the city behind with the holiday rush all around and headed to the off the beaten path in North Luzon. From the concrete jungles with the twinkling city lights at a distance, our views gradually shifted to a pitch black sky melting into a breathtaking shades of blue turning to pink and orange, the rays of the golden sun shining on the vast verdant plains and what seemed like a never ending hills of the landlocked province, Quirino. The drive was truly a feast for the eyes. We stole ourselves from this beauty for a quick shallow slumber just to rest our minds and…
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2025 Daracoton Island DIY Travel Guide
There are just these places that my heart and soul yearn to see and experience all over again; not because they have appealed to my senses big time but they just had a way of making me feel and realize a lot of things that matter to my being. Palawan is among those places for me. Recently, I came back to El Nido and decided to take the path less traveled; to see the beauty that others often miss out on. There’s this place that I fell in love the moment I laid my eyes upon it. More so, I found a home to this island – in Daracoton island.…
