Kat's Notebook

I’m going to Coron with my sister this Sunday! I’m so excited that I’m actually blogging about this like 5 days ahead of time. I’ve been wanting to go to Palawan for a very long time now. When I got back from the US, I really planned to go here. My mom’s side of the [...]

My sister and I decided to go to Quezon province to participate in the Pahiyas Festival on May 15. I’ve been seeing Pahiyas coverage on TV. The news show houses being decorated with edible decorations called “kiping” and lots of people celebrating in the fiesta. I was glad to have this opportunity to go to [...]

Last weekend I went to Sagada and literally survived the trip. Sagada is at the northern part of Luzon just beyond Baguio or Benguet. It is an ultimate adventure trip. If you’re a backpacker or trekker or an adventurous outdoorsy-type of person, you might like Sagada. So what’s in Sagada? I made a mistake that [...]

I’ll be going to Sagada from April 30 to May 3. I’m so excited!!! What’s in Sagada, you ask? Just one of the wonders of the world, mind you. It’s the Philippine’s famous Banawe Rice Terraces. We’ll be trekking, hiking, spelunking, and hopefully swimming and jumping off a waterfall! Yahooo! My kind of travel! I’ll [...]

Continuing from where I left off, I have just realized that we only covered the basic tourist attraction sites in Beijing. We weren’t able to go to Fragrant Hills, Old Summer Palace, Happy Valley, Beijing Zoo, etc. Well they were originally part of our plan but because we didn’t realize how big the sites were [...]

I brought my vivitar ultra wide slim camera with me to China. I’m new to the “lomography” hobby. But I don’t think my camera is considered lomo; it’s just a toy cam. Anyway I acquired the camera last year and although I was inspired and trigger-happy on the first few months, I became unenthusiastic after [...]

Continuing my chronicle of my recent China trip, if Shanghai has few tourist attraction spots, Beijing has so many and so big that 3-4 days won’t be enough to see them all. It’s a good thing that we were in Beijing for 6 days! We were able to go to the famous tourist spots at [...]

My recent trip to China was my first trip ever to the country. I was glad that my sister was able to accompany us. I consider her somewhat a native there since she has stayed for almost 3 years. Instead of going with local tour groups which I read in the internet is one of [...]

In my recent China trip, we stayed 2 days at Shanghai before going to Beijing. We were greeted by a cold and dreary weather. It drizzled almost the whole day. The hotel we stayed though was really nice. The bad side here was it’s an almost 45minute ride in the subway to get to the [...]