Petra | Jordan. A rose-red city half as old as time
San Vicente | Palawan. Counting solitary strides.
Taj Mahal | India. A teardrop on the cheek of time
Catanduanes Island. Postcard-pretty slideshow.
Keep Kalm (at Kalanggaman Island | Leyte).
Nikko | Japan. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil in this UNESCO heritage town.
Counting temples in Bagan | Myanmar.
Chasing UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka.
Where to Stay? | Luxury, Backpacking & Glamping
Inaul Festival | Maguindanao. In homage of a weaving tradition
Rishikesh | India. a morning walk inside the Beatle's Ashram
Marky Ramone Go
May 15, 2019
“Ask them what their names are”, a father manning a street food stall gently commands her young daughter of not over ten years old. The beaming but shy little
girl obliges, “What is your name?” she inquired staring wide-eyed at my friend. “I am Karla and
this is Marky and your name is?” answered my ever responsive friend. The young girl
smiled before telling us her name “I’m
Amara”.
Inaul Festival Celebrates Maguindanao’s Traditional Weaving Art
Marky Ramone Go
May 05, 2019
“Life
is a loom, weaving illusion” [1] and
in Mindanao’s storied sundry of woven heritage, a diverse weaving art scattered
across the region abounds with dream-like patterns and fascinating backstories. Anecdotes encompassing
historical origins and local legends shaped the roots of the various cloth
creations of the Dreamweavers’ T’nalak of
South Cotabato, the Langkit of
Maranao, the Dagmay of the Mandayas, the
Tausugs's Habul Tiyahian, the Inabal of Davao del Sur’s
Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe, among others—and in this case, ushering a festivity called the Inaul Festival.
A Fine Morning of Swimming and Drone-ing at Calatagan Sandbar | Batangas
Marky Ramone Go
May 02, 2019
After waking up with a terrible hangover—no thanks to the previous night’s drinking game—to a beautiful moonset and a hearty breakfast by the beach, we hurried up renting a small boat for a side-trip to a nearby sand bar. It appears during low tide a few clicks off the coast of Puting Buhangin and Burot beach. It goes with a couple of other names: Starfish Island and Little Boracay, but I prefer calling it with its simple but apt name of Calatagan Sandbar. The boat trip going here from where we're staying at (Aquaria Waterpark and Crusoe Cabins) takes around half an hour and sails on the ridges of the waters of Verde Island Passage.