how to eat balut like a filipino local
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…
from el nido to las cabanas beach
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…
daytrip to nacpan beach from el nido
after napping until a late lunch on our first day in el nido we hired a pair of tricycles to head out nacpan beach about 45 minutes out of town. we were able to get them down to 800pp per…
Big Buddha of HK
Karan and I decided to hike to the Big Buddha of Hong Kong while the boys get their tennis fix. The sky was overcast which was a relief as I was grossly underprepared for a hike that day. I was…
quick daytrip to macau
out of our 5 days in hong kong we spent one of those rain filled days making the daytrip to macau. we met up with kenny, ethan, frank and karan and took an hour long hydrofoil ride over there. the…
Hiking Elephant Mountain
*No elephants were harmed during this hike…or spotted. We started yesterday with a hearty breakfast at Loco Food. I ordered a burger with mushroom, bacon and fried egg. Figured the egg makes it a breakfast burger. By the time we…
Fire Walking Festival at Mt. Takao
Last Sunday, we headed out to Mount Takao to check out the fire walking festival (Hiwatari-sai). We got there just in time to catch the procession of yamabushi monks walking towards the festival grounds. We quickly follow the procession, making…
getting our onsen on at hoheikyo onsen
Last Monday we decided to check out Hoheikyo onsen. The main attraction for us was the authentic East Indian food served onsite. Yes, we make all decisions with our stomachs. We get our onsen and bus tickets from the info centre…
the infamous kiroro migration
talk about a hectic morning. last sunday was our checkout from sapporo and checkin at otaru however the snow forecast had a sizable dump coming to all of the coastal mountains around sapporo. as the winds were coming in from…
a lazy sunday at sapporo teine
prior to our recent otaru stay, we ventured back to sapporo for two nights and one of the motivating factors to come back to the city was so i could make a daytrip to teine. i’ve heard that it has…
