Category: Travel

  • Samboan: Waking Up to the Sunrise of the South + a Teaser Photo of Dao Falls

    We had a long weekend last week so my friend and I decided to go falls-hopping in Samboan, a fifth class municipality about 150 kilometers south of Cebu City. We arrived at the South Bus terminal at around 1 AM for our 2 AM Ceres bus, but to our dismay, the bus did not arrive…

  • Phoneography Challenge: Isla Naburot as Seen Through the Lens of my Samsung Note 2

    Isla is our dialect for island so Isla Naburot means Naburot Island. I visited this private island resort in Jordan, Guimaras last year and immediately fell in love with its serene ambience. I asked the owner what Naburot means and he said it is a root crop that was once abundant in the island. Upon…

  • Phoneography Challenge: The Angkor Wat in Black and White

    The Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world. We visited this architectural wonder in November last year. The above was my first glimpse of the temple. Needless to say, I was amazed since this has long been in my list of must-sees. The temple is beautiful and we couldn’t help…

  • Photo+Text: Wanderlust

    The above photo was taken in Batanes using my trusty Canon Powershot G12.  Painting effect courtesy of my Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera RX 100 II.  Border added using the Android app Pixlr-o-matic. I chose the above quote since it’s something I can very well relate to.  Since being bitten by the travel bug when I…

  • Summer’s Here (2015 Edition)

    I’m officially welcoming summer 2015 with snapshots of my workplace-cum-home in Cebu, the Queen City of the South. The above is a photo of Plantation Bay’s beachfront taken just last Monday. I love how the water looked light blue by the beachfront but darkened to deeper shades of blue when farther out.  And the clouds…