We should have arrived in Xi’an right now if we were able to book a train to Xian. Anyway, it’s a great thing that we were able to find tickets going to Beijing. Unfortunately, the only tickets available were soft seats leaving at 1pm and arriving to Beijing at 7am. That’s a 16-hour train ride. L. We have nothing to do but tour our area, Jing’an temple (jing an suh). There’s not much to do so we watched those performing tai chi. Afterwards, and because of boredom, we do some fashion-
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Since we needed to adjust our itinerary, we decided to visit Hangzhou this day. Le tour’s staff found that there were only 100 tickets for the earliest train for Shanghai-Hangzhou which was at 630am, so we decided to take a bus instead. We didn’t want to experience another frustrating day at the railway station again. We took the metro to Shanghai South Railway station. We had another long walk in the subway before we finally found the bus station. One unusual thing worth noting was tha
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We arrived early that morning, but our call time was still 7am. I volunteered to wake up first. Our room doesn’t have any towels, and since I’m the first one to get up, I went down to ask. Before doing so I checked my itouch translator application and learned that jin ma was the mandarin for towel. With that, I was able to survive my first mandarin communication-gap.hehe. As planned, we went to Shanghai Railway Station to look for tickets. Anton and I queued up in line, while Xty looked
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Xty finalized our trip, checking the maps and taking notes while we were on board our MNL-PVG flight. The real adventure starts when we landed on Pudong International Airport in Shanghai at 1130 PM. Since our arrival was late, we are unable to take the metro, the Maglev train or the airport buses going to the city proper. It’s great that Xty can speak Chinese, she was able to ask where the buses were, and so, in the nick of time, we’re able to board the last bus, also called the midnight
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Last November 2009, we were able to book a MNL-PVG flight for 4 for only P905/pax. Since then, I was so excited since climbing the Great Wall is one of my biggest dreams. Months passed, Xty and I organized the best itinerary possible. We came up with this: Day 1: Night flight to Shanghai Day 2: Buy train tickets to Xi’an, tour Shanghai Day 3: Half-day tour in Shanghai, travel to Xi’an at night Day 4: Buy train tickets to Beijing, tour Xi’an, particularly the terracotta warriors. Trav
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We spent the morning in Siquijor, taking pictures and messing around the billiards and gym rooms of Dondeezco. We almost lost our tripod bag that morning, but managed to find it in time before we get into the van headed to Siquijor pier.  Transport to pier is free courtesy of Dondeezco. We travelled back to Dumaguete on board Delta Fast Ferries leaving at 12:30pm. We bought the tickets the day before so as not to risk our schedule and itinerary. When we docked at Dumaguete pier, we asked our t
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How to go to Siquijor Because of our mishap the day before, we were forced to tour Siquijor on day 4. We bought the earliest ferry (Super Shuttle Ferry) scheduled to depart at 5am. Tickets cost 350/pax and the ride was approximately 4 hours. I’d say this was a typical RORO because it has room for land vehicles. When we arrived in Dumaguete Pier, we bought ferry tickets bound to Siquijor. Delta Fast ferry is fully booked so we settled for a GL Shipping Lines Ferry. We recommend Delta Fa
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While travelling, there are circumstances that we cannot control no matter how much we prepare and anticipate all the possible outcomes. In such cases, one should be creative enough for possible solutions. Luck is very helpful too. Just hope that you have lots of it. ;) We started our day early. I think our call time was 6am. Our planned itinerary was to tour Libuton cave and if there’s enough time, tour a Dipolog waterfall. We should be back by 4pm to catch a ferry going to Dumaguete.
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One spice of travelling is misadventures. It makes an ordinary travel so wonderful but sometimes so scary. Some time last 2006, a friend and I decided to have a one week tour of Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. At that time, we thought one week is long enough to experience touring some of their key cities. We decided to make Singapore our hub, so we booked a roundtrip flight of MNL-SIN. Later on, Tiger Airways posted a seat sale of SIN-KVB so we booked a one-way flight
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On our first day (Dakak tour), we asked a crew what else can be seen there. He told us that the view overlooking Dakak was great, but we need to climb 300 steps up until we get to the Globe cell site tower. That was in the afternoon, and night would befall soon, so we opted to go to that cell site early next morning. one side. On the other side, there’s Dakak, and “another resort”. We never find out if what we saw was really a resort. But it was beautiful just the same. At that point, w
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