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Traveling offers a rich tapestry of ‘a-ha!’ moments interspersed with insights borne out of a feeling of affinity with fellow human beings one meets along the way. In my own travels, I always cherish the pleasant surprises, the unexpected detours, the altogether new tastes and sounds, and other eye-openers that one can only get from …

by Joshua L. Lagandaon I am going to be upfront and tell you that while reading through the first few pages of this so-called “zombie love story”, I blushed and let out high-pitched chuckles, like a little girl reading Twilight. I am not lying when I tell you that Warm Bodies was a present I requested …

Aristocrat: 75 years of serving the best Filipinos’ love affair with Aristocrat, the “home of the best chicken barbecue in town,” has been going on for the last 75 years. The close ties have in fact grown stronger and with good reason. Founded by Doña Engracia Cruz-Reyes, the restaurant is known for its well-loved chicken barbecue …

The City of Angels reveals a different side to FLASH PARKER. I always thought people came out to LA to lose themselves—Hollywood is, by definition, a chameleon’s playground, a place that makes you rich and famous the better you are at pretending you’re someone different. But the truth is there’s more to this city than flash …

NYX MARTINEZ discovers how a group of balikbayans was able to surf to their hearts’ content while teaching local kids about respect for nature. “Have you ever traveled to surf in other countries and noticed that the local children have an interest in surfing but don’t have access to surf boards?” asks Mercy Cormier, one …

by Ira Inquimboy Here’s a scene at home: your furniture are rearranged or get replaced by new ones, your mom starts buying certain lucky charms, your dining table centerpiece is now a basket of round fruits, and inside your refrigerator are boxes of the ubiquitous tikoy. Yes, it’s Chinese New Year season once again!  But …

by Jun Ventura Our job is to travel. We don’t intend to make you envious but as they quipped: “Someone has do it.” Every month, in the course of publishing Mabuhay magazine, the in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines, we come across a lot of information and materials. Most are from our contributors both here in …

NEAL WEBSTER TURNAGE witnesses how Honolulu goes back to the past to find its future. Honolulu is back. Not that it ever went away, only that its identity was temporarily swallowed as the predatory Hawai’ian monster known as Waikiki gobbled up everything in its path. While Waikiki is still a vast stretch of tropical, urban …

Best-selling author PAULO COELHO shares his lessons on how to discover the soul of a place. I realized very early on that, for me, traveling was the best way of learning. I still have a pilgrim soul, and I thought that I would pass on some of the lessons I have learned, in the hope …

There’s more to Laoag than meets the eye. ISABEL L. TEMPLO goes beyond the Ilocos region’s famed churches and takes us on a three-day cultural and culinary sojourn. Mention Laoag or Ilocos and some people automatically think of old churches. This is not surprising, as the region is home to two Baroque churches on the …