For ages, hotels, and the level of service and posh amenities they provide, have been an essential part of everyone’s holiday planning. But with hotel rates on the rise, the more Bohemian yet very convenient option for vacation rentals are getting more popular; offering more space, no crowd of tourists and the pleasure of enjoying a whole house or apartment to yourself – for half the price of a deluxe suite. 

It’s summer, the perfect time for travel and having fun visiting people and places near and far. 

To this day, the mystery that is Gat Andres Bonifacio’s life still haunts albeit fascinates historians and followers alike. 

Steeling myself against fierce gusts of katabatic wind, I stood at the roof of the Rockies, gazing on a nest of glaciers, two thousand feet thick, which mantled Canada for millennia, when men still hunted with stone spears, when woolly mammoths, mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers roamed the earth.

No, the title is neither misspelled nor altered for aesthetic purposes. This is how the widely-known festival in Baguio City is supposed to be pronounced—in schwa sound.

MANILA - Asia’s Biggest Wedding Fair, Wedding Expo Philippines opens Themes & Motifs’exciting wedding fair season when it celebrates 22 editions of being the most comprehensive source of wedding – related products and services.  

El Nido Resorts in the municipalities of El Nido and Taytay, Palawan, was recently named as one of 12 finalists worldwide in the 2013 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards (TTA), one of the most prestigious and highest accolades in the global travel and tourism industry. 

Betsy Westendorp is the epitome of a gifted and sublime artist with a tireless work ethic and exemplary exhibits.

Regular readers of my blog know I have a passion for climbing mountains.

Las Piñas today is a bustling city with an ever-growing population, majority of whom have no idea about the simple but idyllic life in the area six decades ago, when Las Piñas was famous for saltbeds, jeepney factories, dance halls, a fancy house of ill repute called Hacienda, and the Bamboo Organ. Not necessarily in that order.

The province of Basilan in Mindanao has often been overshadowed by the negative images attributed to it.

You have to say goodbye to a stressful life once in a while and exert extra effort in doing so.

In the cedar forest before me, the cinnamon mountain resolved into a sow grizzly.

I went scrambling for special cookbooks last month when my son Hiroki, visiting from Osaka, revealed that he had to be hospitalized for kidney stones and has to stick to a very strict diet in order not to worsen his condition.

TV news around the globe sensationalized the Euro-zone financial crisis and Greece was in the abyss of great depression.  Athens, the capital of Greece was disorderly; many establishments were closed.  Even so, the democracy loving people held their National Election Day.  That was the time I revisited Athens, May 2012.

Air China offers travelers from the Philippines return business class fares to Europe at $999 on their flights via their Beijing hub.

The gang meats up at the Hapchang Restaurant on the West Avenue, rush through platters of food. 

It has been an exciting week fighting off the flu with the world’s most beloved cure: chicken soup. Not just any chicken soup, but the kind that takes one back to every grandma’s kitchen and the TLC of Mom’s late night chest rub with Vicks Vaporub.

When one is getting tired just thinking of doing the same thing on a regular basis, or being suffocated by the thought of daily commutes and horrendous traffic (and not to mention the ever present work-related pressures), we cannot help but dream of having a break of a day or two just walking slowly, eating slowly or just to take some moment to catch our breath.