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jojo: what do i like? -nicaragua is crazy cheap. when i say cheap, i mean really cheap. our meals have been in the 75-140 cordoba range ($3.75-7 cad) and we fully realize that granada is going to be one of the most expensive stops in nicaragua -booze is ridiculously cheap. we haven’t found ourselves drinking […]
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so one thing we found out very quickly into our travels was that although airbnb is a nice alternative to hotels to get that ‘home away from home’ experience, it’s not quite perfect. i swear that we weren’t trying to nitpick about each of our places but there would always be, without fail, something that […]
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four islands, three flights, two ferry rides, scooters, white sand beaches, snorkeling, liempo, sketchy tricycle rides, cute kitties, wet markets, fourteen day old balut, chocolate hills, randomly caged crocodiles, atv rides, fresh coconuts, lunch on a private beach, beautiful sunsets, even nicer sunrises, puke filled elevators, fresh coconut juice, champorado, jollibees and a cancelled flight […]
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I was able to sample some interesting foods while in Asia, some courtesy of the ever adventurous eating sensei Frank. Here’s a list of the highlights. Raw marinated crab. The ick factor for me was not knowing how clean the crab was going to be. The water in China is not exactly known for being […]
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i must be a loner at heart. las cabanas’ crowds almost singlehandedly ruined sunsets for me and while bohol’s sunsets were quiet amazing, i wanted more solitude. haha and i woke up at 430 one morning to head out to catch the sunrise. we still had our scooter rental so our plan was to drive […]
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the philippines was so packed that i almost forgot about our day on the water in el nido. from the city, there are a number of standardized tours that are on offer from virtually every activity store, convenience store and trike rider. i had my doubts about a few things such as: i) the quality […]
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the bohol bee farm… where do i start? well to kick things off, their website is pretty bad. i probably could have built a better one within my first month of being a webdesigner. 14 years ago. it’s not very informative nor does it accurately show what facilities they have on-site. with that said, we […]
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We had it good at the Bohol Bee Farm. It was pretty easy to while away the day being lazy and eating ice cream every day. We did manage to do some water activities. Being the non-swimming Asians that we are, Frank, Joe and I tagged along with a diving group to do some snorkeling. […]
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We came to Bohol to visit the famous tarsiers and chocolate hills. Bohol is a pretty big island so we hired a van to take the six of us instead of going by scooters as previously planned. This turned out to be an excellent decision as it took us almost an hour to get to […]
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ah yes. weird food. i’ve heard much about balut but have never had the pleasure of seeing it up close and personal. for clarification, balut is a partially formed duck egg that is ideally served at 16 days old. from my limited research, i’ve found that duck eggs hatch in roughly 28 days so at […]
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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. cebu (one night, palu palu), hong kong (uncle’s apartment, five days, aberdeen) q. favourite meal a. oddly enough, hong kong has been a nice break from the gluttonous eating out we’ve been doing for most of this trip. i want to put peking duck […]
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i must be a loner at heart. las cabanas’ crowds almost singlehandedly ruined sunsets for me and while bohol’s sunsets were quiet amazing, i wanted more solitude. haha and i woke up at 430 one morning to head out to catch the sunrise. we still had our scooter rental so our plan was to drive […]
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this was back in el nido and we had had maybe 3 days of filipino bbq but no homestyle meals as of yet (with the exception of one chicken adobe on the beach that tasted like soy sauce chicken. yucks). we stopped by one place that had a mix of food so we ordered three […]
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well that r&r that i’ve been crying about for weeks has finally happened. i’m leaving el nido feeling recharged and ready to hit the road once my leg heals up. i forgot how easy it is to fall asleep in hot weather but in this 30+ degree heat, i’m half asleep as soon as i […]
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joe: what do i like? -we got exactly what we asked for. didn’t leave the bohol bee farm for the first day, ate all our meals here (in which all vegetables are grown on-site) -cheap and good massages. first one of the trip for me and man do i miss my rmt back home, camelia […]
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well the first few months of this trip has seen a pretty vicious intake of fatty pork. i was originally thinking about just the philippines and korea but then i remembered that we also had our share of braised pork in taiwan as well as all the kakuni and chasiu served up with our ramen […]
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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. el nido (sei naczioni cottages, 5 nights), panglau (bohol bee farm, 5 nights extended one extra day) q. favourite meal a. filipino homestyle meal at golden cowrie. i have to confess, i wasn’t terribly excited about food in the philipppines especially taiwan left me […]
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aside from the small beach out of town, one of the more common beaches in the el nido area is las cabanas. if you walk around town in the morning, trike drivers will consistently ask if you’d like to head to nacpan beach. by the afternoon, all of them will have changed their tune to […]
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