Bongao, Tawi-Tawi Quickie


Bonga Flea Mart pier

ShareTweet Just came from an EPIC Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi backpacking tour with 3 blog readers-turned-friends. Shout out to Lester aka “The Jap,” Doc Banggi and Anna! I have so many stories to tell and so many photos to share. Add to the fact that I need to slow down once more to process all the things that we experience dealing with different Muslim tribes during that 5-day out-of-town trip. As usual, here are my chosen photos from this particular trip. Hoping that these three would encourage you to join the next backpacking tour as we are planning to go back [...]

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Swimming with Turtle at Mantigue Island


Hello turtlee! It was nice to share the ocean with you. Thanks for the photo-ops

ShareTweet Short story: James: Miss. give me a favor please. Let me go to Mantigue island. I want to spend a night there. I’m just a backpacker trying to write a book about my travels in the Philippines. Staff: Sir, I’m really sorry. We don’t allow tourists to stay overnight in the island. (Meanwhile, James looks for an alternative- befriends a local who live in Mantigue and ask her if she could bring him to the island without paying for entrance and by just hitchhiking a boat going there. The local cooperates.) Staff: Sir, I’m so sorry we really don’t [...]

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Camiguin Quickie


Sunken Cemetery

ShareTweet So, yeah if you are following me on Instagram you should have noticed that I’m in the “Island Born of Fire.” Here are three of my fave snapshots while having an excursion here in Camiguin. As usual, three photos and short captions as an introduction to the posts that will be published in the following days: CHILLIN’ ON THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER Remembering my Camiguin Island Tour 2 years ago (where I spent only Php80 because I don’t have money). Things have changed now- before I was on a budget and now this trip is all-expense paid. Really [...]

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