Category: Blog
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Culion Photo Diary
I have been trying over the past days to come up with the right words to describe Culion. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say; it’s that I have too many – too many words, moments, thoughts, stories….
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Reaching Happy Heights
What can kids teach us about climbing mountains? Wait…shouldn’t it be the other way around? But tell you what, it was actually a bunch of young girls from the Mertixell Orphanage that taught me an important lesson about climbing, and traveling in general – that is, to always have a sense of wonder, to stop and look around…
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Defying Darkness
I do not like the dark. It is always with sadness that I watch the fading afternoon light, the last rays clinging onto surfaces. In Culion, you have no choice but to face the darkness – after the din of primetime shows and evening news, everything goes quiet. Thankfully, this is when we discovered that…
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The Crowning Glory
“We actually didn’t want to bring you here first.” One of the boatmen has just jumped into the sparkling waters, a thick, blue cord in hand. Why not? I ask. “Because every other coral reef will seem ugly afterwards,” Guido shrugs. He points to the swimming boatman and explains we can’t drop anchor because the corals are shallow so he needs…
Trish in Transit 