I’ve always looked at Boracay with suspicion, being one huge tourist trap that I don’t always like. However, having written an article in CNN Go last year, I might need to change my mindset as I travel to this (in)famous island in the Visayas. First, a really nice accommodation.

On board wifi is now being offered by some bus companies coming and going from Manila. It let’s one be connected even while in transit. But the question is, do travelers really need to be always online?

A casual mention of it is enough to send eyes looking at you and women hiding a giggle. Or even a condescending stare trying to look at you from head to toe (and stopping at the crotch) and thinking if you’re having inadequacies under the sheets. But for its believers, lansiao is better than that blue pill.

The Ruins of St. Paul is one of Macau’s top tourist drawers and, if not, the most iconic of all the territory’s landmarks. An imposing, well appointed facade rich with details that is a blend of the West and the Orient.

Perhaps one of Macau’s iconic landmarks, the Largo de Senado or Senate Square is often depicted, along with Ruins of St. Paul, in countless photos. The area is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Macau.

It was a very fruitful year! 2010 was a major coup in terms of travel for this peripatetic old soul: published in National Geographic, wrote for CNN Go, won the Wandering Juan contest, rounded North Luzon twice, visited enough provinces to make it just six more to complete all 79 and a whole lot more!

Langyaw.com is highlighted in the recent issue of Expat: Travel and Lifestyle (Philippines) Magazine

There’s a marked contrast. A glaring showcase of opposites. Shabby apartment buildings, tiled roof traditional houses, century old churches and government buildings at one end. Then you have glitzy high rises, skyscrapers filled with lights and neon marquees dancing on a foggy night at the other end. Macau’s old meets the new.

Latest update of my travels from third quarter of 2008 – December 2010. Six more provinces to go to complete all 79 in the Philippines

A downloadable PDF photo e-magazine focusing on the quaint town of Cuyo, a remote municipality in Palawan in the north Sulu Sea. Thirty three pages, thirty one colored image spreads.

Its pushing and shoving and about making it to your destination from a Philippine National Railways rush hour train trip in one piece. While it’s quite an ordeal, it was a very good and fun experience!

My first travel blogging talk at a major blogging event in Iloilo was good base on the feedback and the questions fielded from the participants. It’s good inspiring other bloggers.

15 bloggers join in this first ever Pinoy Travel Bloggers’s Blog Carnival which Langyaw is hosting. Read their accounts of these bloggers’s best places they’ve visited in the Philippines.

I trekked up Mt. Iraya in Batanes to ponder on my past, my present and my future as a was crossing a major life milestone and I came down humbled and confident.

I know nothing about Macau except for a few things or what I think I knew of this place and I am open to what this place has to offer, good or bad. I am always receptive to something new: food, places, structures and probably culture and people. I’m ready to be surprised

Its smaller than the whole of Metro Manila but Macau, a rising tourist haven with its big name casinos, dancing lights and glitzy glamor is one place that Pinoys should visit. Beyond the lure of the gaming tables, there is great fusion cuisine to savor, a rich religious heritage to ponder, colonial architecture to marvel and an old world charm to experience.

An alternative travel from Naga City to CWC. Interesting with beautiful sceneries along the way. It was an experience worth taking: a trip from Naga City to CWC, world class wakeboarding and water sports facilities via skates, a wooden and motorized contraption that transports people and goods using extant rails.

The first time I learned about kinalas, a popular noodle dish in Naga City, I was queasy. The thought of eating pork brain gives me goosebumps. It is one part of an animal that I avoid and this one is said to contain this organ. But my curiosity got me and I didn’t look back.

I was overwhelmed with its taste. A hard to grasp but distantly familiar flavor exploding inside my mouth that I just have to close my eyes and revel in gustatory ecstasy. Ibos-ibos, a fusion rice concoction of a Filipino native delicacy at Chef Doy’s was one of two unforgettable experiences I had in Naga City, Camarines Sur.