Tag: park
Timberland Mountain Bike Park Unveils In Rizal
Mountain bikers in Manila and beyond, there’s a new spot where you can play. After more than seven years of planning, Timberland Mountain Bike Park in San Mateo, Rizal, finally opened to the mountain biking community of the Philippines. This isn’t your average recreational park. Timberland Mountain Bike Park was inspired by the world-class European […]
Siquijor’s Treehouse Adventure For Grownups
On the surface, Guiwanon Spring Park seems like another one of those tourist traps where you go just to take pictures and tick it off your to-do list. My travel buddy Tina and I kept missing this spot when we rented a scooter and explored Siquijor island on our own. Even if we knew where […]
Throwback: Palace of Fine Arts
There are travel albums in my hard drive that I enjoy revisiting—some for the memorable stories behind them, and others for the views or architecture. One place that fits the latter is San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, where my uncle took me last year. Located in the Marina District of San Francisco, the Palace […]
Looking For The Little Prince
In her broken English, our gregarious Korean tour guide, Mickey, explained that we were entering La Petite France, a park where the famous Korean TV drama, Secret Garden, was filmed. We were given less than an hour (one of the drawbacks of booking a tightly scheduled group tour) to explore the place, so we quickly […]
Alternative to Luneta Park
I did a TV commercial for Buddy Crackers in May last year. The venue was Makati Park and Gardens, and although I consider myself a Makati dweller, I needed to check Google maps because I had never heard of the place before. Like most parks in Makati, the place is discreetly located along one of […]