Going around Tokyo can be expensive. Train tickets can cost from around 200-400 JPY for a one-way trip (depending on your destination), and for tourists who are basically commuting the entire day, this can easily go up to 1,000 JPY a day. The Tokyo Subway Ticket 72-hour pass costs only 1,500 JPY per adult – […]
Tokyo is for me, what New York is for others. It’s my ideal city! There’s so many things to do, that you can’t possibly fit it all in a month! But, given the circumstances of a working adult, where you can’t really leave work that long, we have to settle with shorter trips. I am […]
Have you ever had a hard time tracking your travel budget and expenses, especially when you travel in groups? I have created a very simple Travel Expense Tracker that automatically does this for you. The tracker is saved on Google Sheets so you and your travel buddies can access and update this at the same […]
The application for a Japan Tourist Visa is not as difficult as let’s say, applying for a US Visa. Everything is coursed through an agency, and there’s no need for personal appearance (with the Embassy). Japan has relaxed the requirements for Filipinos to encourage tourists to visit their country. Traveling to Japan is at its […]
I’m going to start off my series of Japan Travel posts with some essential Japanese phrases that would be good for you to know (and hopefully use), when you are traveling to Japan. I am not an expert in Japanese, but I have on-and-off studied Japanese formally and by myself since high school (more self […]
Looking for the next tourist attraction in Cebu? This “Greek/Roman” temple sitting atop Busay is not yet fully complete, but a lot of people are already visiting for its “instagrammability” and that overlooking view of the Queen City. This temple is a man’s tribute to his late wife, very much similar to how India’s Taj Mahal […]
I am seriously not a religious person, and the last time I went through the Stations of the Cross for holy week was probably more than 20 years ago. When I go home to Cebu for the Holy Week, we usually just stay at home and eat binignit, or biko – but we don’t really […]
It was just a few years ago when these gentle giants were spotted near the shores of Oslob, Cebu. Back then, you had to visit Donsol in Sorsogon to see the whale sharks and swim with them. Locally called as Butanding, these whale sharks feed on uyop (baby shrimp or something that looks like it) and […]
One should not be a tourist in his own country. And more importantly, one has to learn of the people who have lived their lives and died fighting for our country’s freedom. Our next stop is the Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery. Laguna is one of the first 8 provinces that revolted against Spanish rule and has […]
On our first day, we left Makati quite later than scheduled so we skipped out some of the items in our itinerary (e.g., Rizal Shrine in Calamba). The weather wasn’t looking too good – it was cloudy and the sun was nowhere to be found. Odd when we were taking the Viaje del Sol or […]