Archive for the ‘The Traveller’ Category

By: Editorial team On: 15 Nov 2011 We’ve asked seasoned business travellers to share their hard-earned packing tips. Never check baggage – unless you can afford a stressful wait at the carousel, which can range from a few minutes to an hour. Having no checked baggage will not only save you worrying that it might be lost, but will also increase the number of options you have when you need to standby for an earlier flight, or switch airline [...]

We’ve asked seasoned business travellers to share their hard-earned tips and tricks that make life on the road less stressful, more efficient and even rewarding. TripIt organises all your information for you. Register for the free version, install the app on your phone and forward all of your confirmation receipts to plans@tripit.com. It will make sense of all the important bits of information and present them to you chronologically in your phone. BeReady: Tripit hipmunk is a web site [...]

By Gary McKechnie Did you know that something as simple as a gum wrapper can trigger airport alarms? Here, eight ways you may unknowingly set off security measures—and what to do about it. ver wonder why the TSA singled you out to rifle through your bag? Or what exactly made the metal detector beep? By now, we all know to ditch our liquids before reaching security. But did you know that something as harmless as [...]

I just came back from a trip to Bohol. On this trip, I was with a group and we toured the island of Bohol. On the first day, we went to visit some of the oldest churches in the Philippines, one of which was the Baclayon church. The church currently houses altars that are intricately designed and is surrounded by colored stained glass that beautifully light the insides of the church. On the second floor, [...]

To most people, travelling fascinates them. To some, travelling seems far fetched. This may be because they do not know how to go about travel or it may also be because they do not have the necessary funds to travel.The author, who is a native of the Philippines, was in that predicament, until he learned the pleasures of travelling and spending some quality time with family and friends outside of his general surroundings. Travelling may [...]

Sept 25 To Sept 28 Our group, college buddies of mine, planned to go to palawan on Sept. 25 to Sept 28 this year. We had planned it based on the availability of our classmates and the promo ticket we got from our airline of choice. On the day of our trip, as we were heading for the airport, the weather was still bright and shiny and it was actually still hot. Anyway we finally [...]

I never thought visiting Siem Reap, Cambodia would be this interesting and educational. All the while people (including me) viewed Cambodia as poverty, landmines, killings and other depressing words to describe such a wonderful place. It may have been true in the 60′s or 70′s or even 80′s, but now its different. Yes poverty still exist specially with the boat people living by the Ton Le Sap Lake, but I couldn’t imagine with such a [...]

Me and some friends decided to hold our christmas party for the year 2009 out of town. So we decided on Lagos del Sol in Caliraya.  On the day itself, we were picked up by our hired van, who was by the way coding for the day (for our foreign friends, coding is a governtment implemented scheme to reduce traffic, based on the last digit of a car’s plate number, the vehicle may only travel [...]