Store offers travel needs
BOARDING GATE, a Singapore-based concept store meant to consolidate everyone’s travel needs under one roof and features luggage that is “born damaged” and other...
Festival colors at Aliwan Fiesta
FOR ONE WEEKEND every summer, the stretch of Roxas Blvd. in Manila from Quirino Grandstand to the CCP Complex is filled with color music...
Beyond the tulip fields, Dutch flower market draws tourists
WAREHOUSES are not normally tourist stops, but one exception is the century-old Royal FloraHolland depot outside of Amsterdam where millions of flowers are distributed...
5 things about Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN -- Here are five things to know about Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bombing in 1945.
1. THRIVING METROPOLIS
Located some...
Island hop by zipline in Calbayog City
Text and photos by Lottie S. Salarda
CALBAYOG CITY — A 45-minute trek along a scenic path at the Malajog Nature Park here takes you...
Hogwarts goes to Hollywood as theme parks mushroom
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen years after Harry Potter’s first big screen adventure, Universal is enchanting a new generation of Muggles with its most spectacular...
Spanish island gets no high from hit song ‘I took a pill in Ibiza’
BARCELONA -- A song about taking drugs in Ibiza has become a smash hit in Europe and the United States, annoying the Spanish holiday...
In transit
By Zsarlene B. Chua
SOUTH KOREA’s Incheon Airport and flag carrier, Asiana Airlines, have announced “special transit tour packages” for transit passengers who choose Korea...
Star Wars’ filming tempts Dark Side of tourism in Dubrovnik
WITH DUBROVNIK’S medieval promenade choked with floodlights, camera booms and a downed spaceship parked against a stone pillar, Desiree and Roger Hamilton had to...
Road trip to Davao Oriental
Text and photos by Marifi S. Jara, Mindanao Bureau Chief
WHEN I WENT to Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental province, for the first...
Like a Masbate Cowboy
By Lally F. Perez
MASBATE, situated off the Bicol mainland, is the country’s “Rodeo Capital,” with its vast cattle ranches and cowboys who tame the...
Mountains, music and mangoes
WITH THE START of the long hot summer, Metro Manila’s footloose travelers need not look far -- just north of the metropolis is Zambales,...