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Lojing Highlands, Kelantan: Blowing Darts at an Aboriginal Senoi Village [SP]

Posted on June 23, 2012

Learning darts, aboriginal-style! After our two-hour return hike to see the Rafflesia blooms, we detoured to a small resettlement village of the Senoi, one of the orang asli or aboriginal groups of Malaysia for a demonstration of their blowpipe hunting skills. While there are no more real aboriginal villages in Lojing Highlands, the government has provided resettlement villages for displaced families, where some of them earn a living through eco-tourism and handicraft-making. There were 22 families living in the villageRead More→

CASA San Miguel Bed & Breakfast – A Dreamer’s Retreat [SP]

Posted on March 26, 2012

CASA San Miguel, a community-based arts center, now offers a bed and breakfast. Cozy, rustic double rooms Last weekend, Starbucks Philippines invited me to join a visit to CASA San Miguel, a community-based school for the arts in San Antonio, Zambales – a destination better known for beginner’s surf, and as a jump-off point to the camping beach coves of Anawangin and Nagsasa. The coffee brand currently sponsors six-month residency-mentorship programs at the arts center, wherein professional artists can shareRead More→

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!

Posted on January 1, 2012

The year that has passed, 2011, has been the most incredible for EAZY TRAVELER, which this year finally had its own domain (www.eazytraveler.net). Aside from continuing to contribute stories for SMILE of Cebu Pacific Air, I’ve begun writing for Travel 3Sixty of AirAsia as well. My feature on Myanmar’s Inle Lake even landed on the cover! Abroad, we chased some of the most violent volcanoes in Indonesia; survived the streets of Kolkata, picked tea at the Himalayan foothills of Darjeeling, and cruised downRead More→

Traveling Easy in Singapore with VISA Debit Card [SP]

Posted on September 30, 2011

Before my two-week trip to India last summer, one of my biggest concerns was in what form I should take my money. Should I bring cash, credit or traveler’s check? I decided to take them all with me, missing out on another convenient option: paying in debit. A business-slash-leisure trip last week to Singapore gave me the opportunity to try VISA Debit, my blog’s first sponsor, while traveling for the very first time. With the VISA logo, your ATM cardRead More→

Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte: Seascape Escape

Posted on June 21, 2011

Postcard-pretty Saud Beach Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte along the northernmost coast of Luzon has been on my bucket list for years. I finally got to explore this coastal resort town over the weekend, and I must say it exceeded my expectations. Despite an incoming tropical storm, the main stretch of Saud Beach managed to whip up a postcard-pretty union of sun, sand and surf, accented by equally bright blue outrigger boats. Across the sweeping bay, the mammoth Bangui windmills lookedRead More→

EAZY Traveler on Living Asia Channel: Snapshots Asia with Canon

Posted on September 6, 2010

Living Asia Channel interviewed me last June on travel photography using a prosumer camera, the Canon Powershot G11. Add LAC on Facebook and Twitter. Snapshots Asia with Canon episode with my segment will be aired from September 5 to 12, 2010. Airing schedule as follows: Sept. 5 2:00PM 8:00PM Sept. 6 2:00AM 8:00AM 6:00PM Sept. 7 12:00AM 6:00AM 12:00PM 4:00PM 10:00PM Sept. 8 4:00AM 2:00PM 8:00PM Sept. 9 2:00AM 8:00AM 6:00PM Sept. 10 12:00AM 6:00AM 12:00PM 4:00 PM 10:00 PMRead More→