Jame'Asri Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah mosque just got served Omar Ali Saifuddien 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. East Timor's sole...
Yesterday and today we went way off the beaten path. We headed to the second largest city in East Timor, Baucau, which is really more of a seaside village than a city. The 10 of us hired a private van to take us to Baucau and back the next day, with a driver that...
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 tourism hasn’t...
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 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...
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...
The Palawan just got served We hopped on our private boat again today….and…. Did a bit of snorkeling: Walked along the sandbar known as Snake Island: Poured rum into coconut we picked off the trees: And gave into vanity: Of course, no day in The...
Despite warnings of inclement weather (cough, 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 beach at our leisure, with each...
