Text and photos by Gypsy Prime Most people won’t equate traveling to Kuala Lumpur as a spiritual journey. The Malaysian capital is not exactly famous for its temples or spiritual retreats. Like most cities in ASEAN, one usually go to KL to shop and eat and perhaps after you’re done with the eating and...
Text and photos by Prime Sarmiento After going through some paper work over my work visa, I finally managed to get out of the newsroom in Brunei to spend a few days in Kota Kinabalu. This is my first time not only in KK but in Sabah. I initially had no...
Text and photos by: Prime Sarmiento “What we held onto holds us back. What we release allows us to fly.” – excerpt from the poem Shattered by Leza Lovitz I never thought that releasing and letting go of old energies will mark my 2013. I after all, started the year with a bang, with...
Posted by: Gypsygal Prime Located at the northwest part of the Malaysian peninsula, Penang island was established as the first British settlement in Malaysia in 1791. Its capital, Georgetown, evolved into a colonial administrative center, with Captain Francis Light, who once worked in a European trading house, as its superintendent. Penang was a part of...
(First Published Oct 2005 at www.travelblog.org/bloggers/gypsygal) One of the valuable things that I learned while traveling is that there's no shortage of kindness everywhere. Journalism (and should I say, adulthood and the bitter experiences that I had to overcome) has made a cynic out of me, always suspicious of people's motivation, especially of strangers...
It just hits us. We wanted a break. We need a quick out-of-country holiday without charging VL days. Chili F, got a good idea: Cameron. Based from hearsays, it’s akin to Baguio…cool climate (which is a welcome change as we were starting to look like prunes from heat and humidity), strawberries (uhmmm yummy!) and perhaps...
First Published Sept. 11, 2005 at www.travelblog.org/bloggers/gypsygal Pokhara, Nepal —Most of the time I travel light, preferring to buy essentials like pocketbooks, t-shirts or toiletries in any country where I'm staying. Given the might of the Singapore dollar (1 SGD = 2.2 ringgit = 22 baht = 5,000 kips=41 Nepali rupees ), I...
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