interview by Prime Sarmiento I have read several memoirs written by solo female travelers, but one thing that stands out for me is that, too often, women go traveling on their own to recover from failed relationships. This bothered me a bit, why does it seem like a woman can’t travel on their...
interview by Prime Sarmiento This is a slightly different Q & A post for The Gypsygals. I interviewed Brooke Ferguson, location-independent entrepreneur who's now based in Thailand. I e-mailed Brooke earlier asking her why some women are reluctant on traveling alone. Brooke, who has a different experience as a a woman traveling on...
text and photo by: Prime Sarmiento (In my previous post, I talked about the walled city of Intramuros in Manila and how it became a center of Catholicism in the Philippines. I then reflected on the fact that such faith, with its heavy emphasis on “guilt”, hurt my personal spiritual practice. In this second...
posted by Prime Sarmiento photos by: Nina Sarmiento (Note: this is the first part of my two-part series on post-modern spirituality) I can't help but reflect about my own spirituality whenever I find myself wandering the Walled City of Intramuros. Intramuros was the political center of the Spanish colonial government in the...
posted by Prime Sarmiento (I reposted this story in line with the Pinoy Travel Bloggers’ Blog Carnival themed Solo Travel which is hosted by Philippine Blog Awards Best Travel Blog of 2010 Winner Nina Fuentes of Just Wandering) “I think about the woman I have become lately, about the life that I am now living,...
interview by: Prime Sarmiento A lot of us would like to go on own journeys but fear is holding back. In this interview, writer and coach Tara Sophia Mohr discusses how to release the fear of traveling solo: Q: Why are some women reluctant to travel on their own? Where does this fear come...
text by Prime Sarmiento photo by Nina Sarmiento I don't know about you but I'm tired of some women who either whine that they don't have a date on Valentine's and/or campaign to boycott Feb. 14, arguing it as another evil product of capitalism. I find the former pathetic (honey, there are other...
text by Prime Sarmiento photos by Nina Sarmiento I used to have "passport envy". I love to travel but I also treated it like a contest. Whenever I heard my friends/acquaintances/colleagues talked about their holidays abroad or business trips, I usually butt in and brag about the many countries that I visited. If I know...
posted by: Prime Sarmiento Christmas is a time for reflection, to express gratitude for all the blessings that came my way; to honor the lessons from the trials that tested my strength. I have so much to be thankful for this year – friends and family who love me, a stable and fulfilling career in...
posted by: Prime Sarmiento I was reading this post at I Will Teach You To be Rich the other day wherein A-list blogger Ramit Sethi talked about how watching a Bollywood movie made him think about “invisible scripts that guide our lives”: “As I was watching this Indian movie, I started realizing how many invisible...
by Prime Sarmiento Thank goddess for entrepreneurs! In fact had not been for this photo booth that was set up by a group of twenty-something entrepreneurs, I won't have any souvenir photo of me enjoying this year's Pahiyas festival in Lucban,Quezon. I forgot to recharge both my digicam and video cam the night before and...
posted by Gypsygal Prime (for my lil sis) Being more Pinoy than Chinese (I’m a fifth generation Filipino Chinese from my mother’s side), our family celebrate the Lunar New Year (or better known as Chinese New Year). We go to church, then have lunch at Binondo (Manila’s Chinatown district) , watch a lion dance in...
Next only to Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm is perhaps the most recognizable Cambodian site, having served as a location for the Angelina Jolie starrer-Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Ta Prohm ("ancestor Brahma") was built in the 12th century the Khmer King Jayavarman VII. It served as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. The temple's main deity...
The castle was built by the local lord Cormac MacCarthy, other tourists find it disappointing being relatively small compare to the other castles (He must be in tight budget perhaps). The castle itself sits on a cliff of rock, serving as an excavation site for the castle. The castle structure implied that it was built...
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