Pandan Island resort is a privately owned island off the southwestern coast of Mindoro in the Philippines. The owners have dedicated themselves to preserving the island and the green sea turtles who feed just off its main beach from over-development … Continue reading
Flying in or out of Manila, you can’t help but be struck by the massive sprawl of it. It looks like Los Angeles except that there is not one clear high-rising downtown. Instead, as you learn driving for hours across … Continue reading
It is not an exaggeration to say that this was the best snorkeling trip of our lives. After a few days of cloudy water brought on by a passing typhoon, the sun opened up over our little boat on our … Continue reading
On Pandan Island we finally tried out our “new” underwater skin for the small camera. Couldn’t dive with it, but still had plenty of fun when the water was clear, as it was at Apo Reef. The middle photo shows … Continue reading
Basco is the capital of Batanes, the smallest, northernmost and most remote of the Philippines’s provinces, which also happens to be the home island of Dor Merina’s family. Getting there involved waking at 4AM for an early morning flight from … Continue reading
We spent a day in Brunei’s capital city, Bandar Seri Begawan en route to the Philippines. The whole place is fascinating, with among other things the word “Shell” seemingly meaning gas station, because of the country’s exclusive oil drilling deal … Continue reading
Well, the year is coming to a close and it has been a very eventful one, to say the least. Wedding parties in Puerto Rico and Ethiopia in January and March were followed by a move to Australia in August, … Continue reading
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The buildings themselves are a tapestry of tales: stories of the Buddha and of Hindu gods, of demons and Apsaras carved into the stone, but also the silent stories of the artisans who worked these walls and the stories since … Continue reading
and a holiday in a hot climate with Sean looks like this:
