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The PH from a Malaysians Perspective
Blogger Exchange, Philippines, Travel Essay

The Philippines from a Malaysian’s perspective

by brennan / April 22, 2019April 22, 2019

Editor’s note: In The Weekend Dispatch’s first installment of Blogger Exchange, Joshua Yam talks about his recent trip to the Philippines.   “It was like…

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Bambike Ecotours
Philippines

A new way to explore old Manila

by brennan / April 8, 2019April 9, 2019

Despite the heavy traffic en route to Intramuros, my buddy and I still managed to arrive at the Bambike Ecotours headquarters. a few minutes before…

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Back in Manila - National Museum
Philippines, Travel Essay

Back in Manila: Spoliarium, Rizal and the Zero Kilometer Marker

by brennan / March 10, 2019March 10, 2019

“This is my favorite spot in Manila,” I told my buddy as we stared at Juan Luna’s magnum opus, The Spoliarium. We were then at…

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City Garden Suites Manila
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Where to stay in Manila: City Garden Suites

by brennan / July 16, 2018July 16, 2018

It was a surprisingly smooth ride from NAIA to City Garden Suites, a 3-star hotel located in Ermita, Manila. This was largely because we arrived…

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Dinagat island hopping - Unib Island
Philippines

Dinagat diaries: From Lake Bababu to Cabacongan Beach (last of 2 parts)

by brennan / April 28, 2018May 7, 2018

It was our second day at Dinagat, a cluster of mineral-rich islands located off the southeastern coast of Surigao in Southern Philippines. From our balcony…

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Lotus Garden Hotel Manila
Philippines, Where to Stay

Review: Lotus Garden Hotel Manila

by brennan / November 25, 2017May 13, 2018

Lotus Garden Hotel‘s unassuming facade is not its strongest selling point. But I did not consider that at all when I was still weighing hotel…

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Philippines

Memories of Siquijor: from Bandilaan to Salagdoong (last of 2 parts)

by brennan / May 20, 2017May 20, 2017

View part 1 of the Siquijor series here. On our second day in Siquijor, the ‘engineer’ unrolled before us a map of the island. His neighbors…

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Dinagat Diaries (first of 2 parts)

by brennan / February 18, 2017April 28, 2018

I am not sure if my travel companions sensed my relief as we boarded M/BCA Seahorse Express at the boulevard in Surigao City. We were…

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The Sounds of Buscalan

by brennan / February 10, 2017April 2, 2017

Buscalan in Kalinga, was very much alive when Andrew and I arrived there one Sunday morning in September. We were greeted with the curious stares…

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Travel Essay

My other best man speech

by brennan / February 5, 2017December 11, 2017

My dear Bagzh, I wrote this half-sober in our hotel room yesterday. You were sleeping like a newborn, and that’s only after a bottle or…

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