Making Brunei Ours
Jame'Asri Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah mosque just got served: Our group departed East Timor-Leste the next morning for Bali, where the plan was to spend another day before leaving the next morning for Manila. But it would be in Bali where the...
Baucau Epic
Yesterday and today we went way further off the beaten path: the second largest "city" in East Timor of Baucau (which is really more of a seaside village than a city). The 10 of us hired a private van to take us there and back the...
Discovering East Timor
Today the group pulled an all-nighter to catch at 7:30am flight from Bali to Dili, the capital of East-Timor Leste. When we landed, I immediately knew we were in a country unlike most others. This is travel purely off the beaten track, where...
No Typhoon Can Stop The Monsoon: Bali
In the last post I described the massive risk we were taking rebooking a flight from the Philippines to Bali after a later flight of ours was cancelled because of the typhoon. Well, we made it. Not even a typhoon can stop the monsoon! After...
Escaping The Typhoon
We're not in the clear yet, so keep your fingers crossed until we reach Bali. And even then, I'm not sure if typhoons affecting even a single country may spread to the entire Southeast Asia region. For more drama, read on... On our third and final day...
Another Day In Paradise
We hopped on our private boat again today….and…. ...that's pretty much all we did. We did nature. Jumped in for some snorkeling: Walked along the sandbar known as Snake Island: Poured rum into coconut we picked...
Typhoon…What Typhoon?
Despite warnings of inclement weather (like a freaking typhoon), we went out anyway, because, well, there was no typhoon. This is island hopping, on our private boat: Island hopping is exactly what it sounds like. We go from beach to...
“El Nido” Get To Paradise!
Within 12 hours we went from landing in the bustling capital of The Philippines… …to partying all night at Prive… …to here: Getting to The Palawan Islands is neither simple or direct. Unless you’re booking a resort...