By Amanda Clark, Contributor Photo: Damien Dempsey / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), cropped Most Filipinos in Australia save their annual leave for one trip, usually in December. Three weeks home, a long list of…
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A Manila to Caticlan seat on Friday 30 October was going for PHP 3,704 when we checked fares on 18 October. The same route on Sunday 1 November? PHP 2,238. Same route, same island, 40…
The Canal deserves your time. It’s also where most Panama itineraries end, and that leaves out most of the country. Panama packs two oceans, rainforest, cloud forest, a volcanic crater town, and a modern capital…
Partway through the final push toward Low’s Peak, our group moved in near silence, one slow step at a time on steep granite. Then the guide stopped and pointed at a break in the horizon:…
If you’ve done a big commercial winery tour in Tuscany, you probably remember the steel tanks, the quick pour, and the gift shop at the end. Our guests often tell us that’s exactly why they…
A Star Ferry ride across Victoria Harbour costs HK$5 on a weekday. That’s about PHP 40, and it gives you one of the best skyline views in Asia. Hong Kong has a reputation for being…
No one forgets their first lion in the wild, walking the plain or dozing in the sun. But at Karibu Kenya, we’ve learned that the trips our guests talk about years later aren’t only the…
The ginkgo trees on Jingu Gaien’s famous avenue are forecast to turn gold around 26 November this year, a little later than most Filipinos expect. That one date changes your whole trip. Book for the…
There’s a moment in every class we teach when the room goes quiet. Someone has rolled and folded their sheet of dough, cut it into ribbons, and slid the flat of a knife underneath. They…