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Holy Week! Baguio’S Still Worth Your While
It’s Holy Week, and Filipinos have started to trek to popular local vacation destinations and resorts to get some relief from temperatures that have been registering in the mid- to high 90’s on the Fahrenheit scale. So what could be more exciting than to travel to the Summer Capital of the Philippines where the week’s weather forecast averages in the mid 60’s?
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Published on 18/04/2019 by Papagei
Categories: Leisure, Travel
Tags: Baguio City, Holy Week, Summer
11 Great Beaches You Probably Haven’T Been To
Say “beautiful beach,” and chances are people will think Boracay. The way the vastly popular island hogs all tourism articles, ads and promotions, one would think it was the only game in town. It is, if you’re looking for an island party place. But if you’re after indulging your senses and clearing your mind and just having a good old-fashioned nature trip, there are hundreds of other options. Maybe more. We have more than seven thousand islands after all.
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Published on 18/04/2019 by Papagei
Categories: Leisure, Travel
Tags: Beach, Island
A Journey To Whang Od
Whang Od is the oldest living traditional mambabatok artist. (“Batok” is defined as the art of tribal tattoo.) Her name is synonymous with Philippine tribal tattoo culture. She lives in a tiny mountain village called Buscalan, in the town of Tinglayan, Kalinga province in northern Philippines.
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Published on 07/03/2019 by Papagei
Categories: People
Tags: artist, tatoo, traditional
Boracay Remains One Of Asia's Best Beaches
Despite the environmental woes that prompted its six-month closure, Boracay was recently listed among Asia's top 25 beaches rankings of an American travel website.
TripAdvisor ranked Boracay's White Beach ninth among 25 others for the four-kilometre main beach's 'calm, warm waters, gently sloping sand, very relaxing (environment)… possibly the most beautiful beach in Asia.
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Published on 04/03/2019 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Business, Environment, Leisure, Travel
Tags: beaches, Boracay
10 Fun And Easy Day Trips From Klang Valley For A Spontaneous Getaway
This article was written in collaboration with www.klook.com

A long weekend or holiday rolls around but you haven’t had the time to plan for anything. While everyone is off on their holiday, you don’t have to stay at home and mope around. Sometimes the best things happen when you go on a spontaneous trip. Here are some places you can go that won’t cost too much money or time!
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Published on 02/03/2019 by delamar
Tags: iprice, ipriceid, skecher
Pieces Of The (Midnight) Sun: Sketches Of An Alaskero
They were the summers of my youth, the summers of life. I started working in Alaska in 1966 when I was just finishing my twenty-first year. When I came home to San Francisco just before the Fall to start school again, I was a father. That was my first year in Alaska. It would be fourteen more consecutive summers before I would see what would become my final trip to South Naknek in Bristol Bay, the salmon goldmine of the world.
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Published on 28/02/2019 by Papagei
Categories: Communities, Lifestyle, Stories
Tags: Alaska, Alaskero, Salmon