Last night, the Benguet Indigenous Youth Arts Guild gave The Poor Traveler the ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ญ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐, an honor given to non-Benguet residents who contributed to the promotion of the province as a destination. ๐ It was a lovely surprise. We weren’t able to accept the award in person because we had a prior commitment,…
Whenever I conduct social media/travel workshops, I always say that in order to stand out in an ocean of influencers that we have today, it’s not enough to just start creating content. You have to find a niche that is close to your heart and through which you can add value to the online experience…
While organizing my old Japan files, I came across this photo and it reminded me of one of my biggest regrets — ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ซ. Google offered us a number of opportunities in the past. In 2016, they invited us to a YouTubers gathering in Japan to…
Exhausted. That’s exactly how I felt upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport coming from my last trip for the year. And what a year it had been! You see, the pandemic felt like a hard reset. For better or for worse, it changed the travel scene dramatically. I’m a travel blogger creating destination…
2023 has been my busiest travel year. So busy, in fact, that while I’m supposed to write about them, I honestly don’t know where to begin. I can’t even find time to think and come up with a good intro for this article. So without further ado, here are the 23 tracks that I listened…
NAGANO, Japan, 2023. โIt was the early morning of December 10 when bloggers Yosh and Vins started their hike through the woods of Nagano Prefecture. The goal was simple: to see Japanโs famous snow monkeys bathing butt-naked in the onsen. The plan, straightforward: hike for an hour, take pictures, and leave. Little did they know,…
โYour aunt’s a very lucky woman, Angelica, because she has two lives,โ I told Vins at one point while we were exploring Disney Sea. I then went on to narrate the ENTIRE SCRIPT of the trailer for โTHE HOURS.โ Not sure what was more confusing: the fact that I memorized the script by heart or…
MARUGAME, Japan, November 2023. While walking around the city, we spotted this statue of a labrador and got curious.