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  • Coffee with a View at Duyan Cafe, Silay City

    August 21, 2019 / 0 Comments

    It started out gloomy – the clouds seemed dense and heavy. There were no warm sunshine hues that I have always looked forward, too. Fine drops of rain started to hit the window pane of the room where I stayed for some nights in that city. Then, it hit me – that day was the start of the most colorful street dance competition in the town, the highlight of Bacolod City’s Masskara Festival! “No, it couldn’t be pouring. Not today,” I uttered.  My prayers and the energy of my positivity emanating from the bathroom while I shower might have reached the heavens above as I saw golden rays through the curtain…

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    Anne Elizabeth Gumiran

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  • Chateau Royale Hotel, Resort and Spa Review

    September 5, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Chateau Royale Batangas is a three-star hotel, resort and spa located along KM 72, Batulao, Tagaytay-Nasugbu Highway. It offers relaxing landscape and recreational activities that is a perfect weekender for everyone. In just a two-hour drive from the Metro, you can explore and experience fun-filled activities that will not only make you reconnect with your own self and other people but also you with your mind and body to nature. This 100-hectare wide resort will surely fill you in with nothing but fresh air and awaken your senses in every way possible. Upon entering the gates, the staff and a variety of flora that colorfully exist in every turn warmly…

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  • Nagcarlan, Laguna’s Ana Kalang Festival 2018

    April 23, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Every town in the Philippine archipelago boasts an amusing and grand celebration of festival that entices people from different regions and even countries; hence, draw them to join the fun and experience the local’s hospitality. Every one is guaranteed with unique experience marked by delectable local cuisine, street dances and parties, traditional games turned into contests, polychromatic streamers and banderoles, giant statues and figures, archs, warm and welcoming people and more. Some of these festivals have been known and established and among which are Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Ati-Atihan Festival in Aklan, Pahiyas Festival in Quezon Province, Panagbenga Festival in Baguio, Moriones Festival in Marinduque, Maskara Festival in Bacolod and…

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  • Galleria Taal: The First Camera Museum in the Philippines

    April 5, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Known as the Heritage town of the South, Taal, Batangas will make you travel back in time with its various antiquarian shops and ancestral houses in every corner of the streets. Each turn guarantees fascination as it will make you look into the town in retrospect. The town boasts open museums and galleries with captivating antediluvian trappings which are much more interesting on the inside. Among the must-sees is that of the Philippine’s very first Camera Museum at the heart of the town, the Galleria Taal. Galleria Taal is definitely a utopia for camera collectors and enthusiasts for it showcases Mr. Manny Inumerable’s vast collection of cameras from the late…

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    May 18, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I have started loving going to places just this 2016 and I usually go DIY (Do-It-Yourself). When someone says DIY, in a traveler’s jargon, this means you have to commute going to your destination. You literally have to do it yourself and make it alive to the place you want to go to lol. But just this November 2016 when I got extremely addicted to Facebook that I spent most of my time on it, I saw this Burias Group of Islands and digged more on the posts. That’s when I came across with this event organized by a stranger. I checked on it, read the itinerary and one thing…

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THE QUEEN’S ESCAPE

Hi! I’m Queenie Anne Gumiran, the storyteller behind The Queen’s Escape, a Philippine travel and diving blog that celebrates wanderlust, culture, and sustainability. I started this space to share stories that go beyond pristine beaches and scenic peaks — from hidden islands and local eats to my adventures in scuba diving, freediving, and sustainable travel. Through every post, I hope to inspire you to explore the Philippines meaningfully, fall in love with its underwater and island beauty while protecting them, one escape at a time.

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