CAMBODIA | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
The Killing Fields: the place where the Khmer Rouge executed several thousand people between during the 1970s.
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CAMBODIA | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [1065]
The Tuol Tumpoung Market (commonly known as the Russian Market) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is
a good place to buy gifts and souvenirs. You can find silks, clothes,
pottery, antiques, wood and stone carvings, backpacks, watches, food,
and what-have-... Read more >
Tags: cambodia, culture, epiphany, haggling, market, musings, people, phnom penh
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) of the Khmer Rouge regime during the 1970s.
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VIETNAM | Friday, 5 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
Sidetrip to a Vietnamese lacquerware arts factory run by handicapped war victims.
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PHILIPPINES | Sunday, 17 Aug 2008 | Views [1641]
I recently embarked on a mini-quest to buy pomeloes as a take-home present for Mama. The fruit was in season in Davao so I opted to get some—only this time, I was doing it just by myself without any of my friends or colleagues from Davao accompanying ... Read more >
Tags: culture, davao, haggling, market, philippines
PHILIPPINES | Wednesday, 6 Aug 2008 | Views [1177]
Just getting settled on this bench I'm solely occupying as of the moment at the check-in lobby of Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. It's my first time here, and it's good to finally enjoy the fruits of taxpayers’ money. The place looks ... Read more >
Tags: airport, in transit, manila, musings, philippines
PHILIPPINES | Friday, 1 Aug 2008 | Views [1417]
Binondo, according to Nick Joaquin in “Manila, My Manila,” was the name given by the early settlers of Manila to one of two delta isles—the other being Tondo—which they discovered when they arrived into what is now known as Manila Bay. Both names, ... Read more >
Tags: culture, manila, philippines, photography, street life
PHILIPPINES | Friday, 1 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
A walking tour around parts of Binondo, Manila.
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PHILIPPINES | Saturday, 5 Jul 2008 | Views [1354]
Filipino backpackers gave their insightful and inspiring, not to mention enviable, experiences on traveling around the world last night at the Recreational Outdoor Exchange (R.O.X.) shop at the Fort. Five speakers shared their own travel plans and notes, ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, pinoy, testimony, travel, travel tips, wanderlust
PHILIPPINES | Sunday, 19 Aug 2007 | Views [5370]
My friends and I went on a long weekend trip (more like a double date) to Siquijor, Dumaguete, and Twin Lakes last June. It was a much-anticipated vacation--first, since we were raring to go on a break from office work and city life; and second, it ... Read more >
Tags: architecture, birdlife, cave, church, folklore, geography, kayak, lake, musings, people
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