While I have already covered the nightlife of Ermita, there is one bar that truly stands out from the rest and that is Dusk Till Dawn Bar down on the main stretch. For the uninitiated Ermita used to be a main nightlife spot for Manila including gems like the Hobbit House, but was essentially decimated…
I was looking forward to going back to Palau and Koror for a lot of reasons, with a primary one being the great food. And at the top of the Koror food pile? In my mind it is Carp Restaurant. Amazingly this was to be my first time back in Palau after a 4 year…
Having tried to visit Myanmar for like 10 years I was extremely excited to make it country 174! Even more exciting though was to see what the nightlife and street food Yangon scene was like. It would be fairly fair to say that Myanmar has its fair share of problems,. What with the coup’s and…
I’ve tended to have a long run of good luck with hotels in Manila, such as Selah Garden and Manila Lotus Hotel! Well that run has been broken with a failed trip to the ever popular Savoy Hotel in Manila. Why did I pick here? Mainly due to proximity to the airport, it being further…
If you are flying from Don Mueang International Airport and want to avoid the traffic then getting an airport hotel is a good idea. Said hotels can be split into categories, actually at the airport, or a few km’s out. For the later Poolside Villas seems to be the best value. What the Poolside Villas…
At some point I will do a whole street food Yangon, or street food Myanmar blog, but for now I will settle for a little gem I found, lime fruit salad in Yangon. As with most great finds this was indeed accidentally found when we went to visit the main temple, namely the Shwedagon Pagoda….
