loise
i like to travel with my husband, and now with our son, too. always planned (and obviously failed) to write about the places i've been to. i will finally attempt to do that here! :)loise
Travel Blog Posts
May 13th 2008
Instead of contemplating on my sins this holy week like I really usually try to do (hmmm), we decided to take a trip to Indonesia. En route to Bali, we stopped for a spell in Jakarta. A bit of sightseeing and shopping and a nice reunion with some friends. I can’t say their names since I do not have their permission but they were awesome hosts. My friend Jenina took this trip with us. Didn’t ask her permission either but she’s my closest friend, so… and she was with us in Palawan too and she didn’t mind the publicity (wink!). We got to Jakarta past midnight via Cebu Pacific. Less than an hour we were at Atlet Century in south Jakarta. Nice room. At breakfast, I found the beef bacon weird but everything else was good ... read more
October 25th 2007
I was so looking forward to our Palawan trip that nothing could dampen my enthusiasm. Mother Nature tried. Typhoon Hanna delayed our 8:15am Manila-Puerto Princesa flight to 11am. But no matter. JR, David, Jen, and I were finally on our way to sunny Palawan! It was a damp, damp, damp Puerto Princesa waiting for us. No storm here. (Palawan doesn’t get hit by storms, our guide said. It’s just the rainy season, silly me.) I have never read a blog about a wet Palawan, so this should be something new. Our tour guide first took us to the Crocodile Farm. JR wasn’t too excited about this but obviously, I was! Check out my photo with a 2-year old croc. I could feel him swallowing during the photo op. The adult crocodiles’ pit was something too. It ... read more
September 25th 2007
JR and I went to China end of January 2006. We joined an all-Filipino tour group of about 16 people. Fantastic group. Not minding the wayward 'pasaway', we all got along well and shared the experience like old friends. First major stop was Beijing. Being in Beijing felt like being a part of a Jet Li movie before he went Hollywood. Surreal. The moment I set foot on Tiananmen Square, I was in awe, although the first thing I remembered about the place was the 1989 massacre. I could not get that out of my especially with all the Chinese soldiers marching and milling about. I had a foreboding about China. It was the first communist country I’d visited and my husband was brought to an interrogation room by immigration police in Shenzhen because he bore ... read more
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