With the success of Backpacking Pilipinas last November, we are following through with exciting themes for the next BPs in 2009! 
For starters, this January - we are going to talk about GETTING LOST! 
Featuring super traveler Tracey Santiago, Manila streetwalker Ivan ManDy, and YTRIP travel photog Bert Bainto - we will talk about the wonders of [...]

 
This is a tribute to an amazing set of people who have helped revive the energy of YTRIP, at the same time, changed the course of my life. They gave me the most wonderful gift of all: Hope and Trust. They helped restore my faith in a lot of things, including (faith in) myself. 
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and these people take it to heart: 
Bluewater Team, YTRIP Core, Anton Diaz of OAP, and Leo - the Filipino Pilgrim. 
 
We hope more people would find it, too.
 
Thank you R.O.X., Bluewater, and to everyone who went to Backpacking Pilipinas in R.O.X. 
More photos of Backpacking Pilipinas can be seen here. 
 
 
 

      

TRAVEL can teach you, positively change you and widen your horizons. It is sad, how, only a few can do it… only a few can be moved by it.
For the past few years, TRAVEL has been regarded as a luxury, often associated with leisure, spending, and airconditioned cars and high-end hotels. At least, for most of [...]

When I was ten, the best word that describes the Filipino, according to my social studies teacher, is HOSPITABLE. We give so much of ourselves – even our beds and our comforts just to make sure visitors are happy. My mother was (is) the epitome of the perfect Filipino host. She would go to lengths [...]