Every little girl grows up playing with Barbie dolls. The iconic doll has been around since 1959 and over the 57 years we have seen so many variations of Barbie, from…
Gawad Kalinga (meaning “give care” in English) is a Philippine-based movement that has a mission to end poverty by 2024 in the Philippines through restoring the dignity of the poor. The…
Prior to heading to the Philippines, I knew I wanted to visit the famed UNESCO rice terraces in the north. The rice terraces were what my friend referred to as the…
All day I tried to get myself in the right mind frame for the overnight bus from Manila to Banaue. I’ve been on overnight trains in both Thailand and India, but…
On my recent visit to Bohol in the Philippines, the Chocolate Hills in Carmen were high on both my friend and I’s lists. No, I didn’t want to go because I have a…
This month I decided to take a bit of a different approach to my part-time travel series, and instead of interviewing someone who is working full-time and traveling on the side,…
If you’ve been following along with my three part interview series with Tiffany Parker over the last few months, you’ll know that Tiffany is a gal on a mission to help…
With a slogan like “friendly paradise” and after three days of traveling and a terrible sleep in a crappy hostel in Manila, I was praying that this island would live up…
The Philippines was unlike the other Southeast Asian countries I’ve visited (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam). There was a few reasons for this – one is that it is a mainly…
I can’t believe the time has come for me to jet off to the Philippines, it seems like just yesterday I decided to take the plunge and book my airline ticket!…
