Luzon

North Batan of Batanes: An Adventure of a Lifetime…

October 7, 2018February 21, 2022
by Anthea

Travel dates: July 1 to 6, 2018

The place is in so much hype, in the circle of full blown travelers and casual tourists.

Hefty priced airplane tickets. The frontier. The resilient island, leeway of typhoons and strong winds.

Welcome to Batanes, dubbed by the local tourism board as “The Northern Paradise.”

Journal

On different sunsets

September 16, 2018September 16, 2020
by Anthea

“You know– one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

An account of chasing sunsets.

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Luzon

Pangasinan: Bolinao or Never!

February 12, 2017January 9, 2021
by Anthea

Travel dates: June 26 – 27, 2015

Everyday is summer. In every part of the world it is, maybe except in the opposite poles of Earth. With this belief, we hurriedly brought ourselves to this one getaway before the monsoon rain starts in one of the hidden treasures here in the Philippines: Bolinao.