After the festival ended we had a day to chill out, topped off with a volunteer appreciation dinner. The next morning we took a taxi to Canggu, along with two of the friends we had made in Ubud: an Oregonian named Marley, and a girl from Hong Kong named Kirin. Canggu is a cool little …
It is difficult to put the experience of Bali Spirit Festival into words. Countless friendships were born, life lessons learned, and we rode an emotional and spiritual high like nothing ever before. Our volunteer shift began at 7am every morning, Wednesday through Sunday. Sara worked in the Healing Hut, getting to know psychic readers, healers, …
I’ll begin with the moral of the story: MONKEYS ARE CRAZY. Especially the gangs of monkeys that live in the Monkey Forest, a tourist attraction in Ubud, Bali. These Crab-Eating Macaques are so accustomed to human visitors that homo-sapiens don’t phase them in the slightest. When you are in the monkey forest, you are in …
If you spend enough time in Sabang and meet the right people, you are sure to cross paths with “George of the Jungle”. Our friend RJ mentioned his name early in the week, and a few days later the jungle man made his way back to town and joined us for dinner. He had just …
Upon arriving on the small island of Palawan, we thought we would be staying in Puerto Princesa for a number of days…. we were wrong. After doing lots of research on Puerto, we thought it would be the magical beach city we were looking for. Come to find out, it pretty much only had one …
First impression of Manila, Philippines was WOW, TRAFFIC. And that’s coming from Los Angeles locals… We took a taxi to Quezon City, about 40km north of the airport, and what should have been an hour ride took 3 hours in the wildest rush of cars, motorbikes, jeepneys, and pedestrians. Basically it’s a free-for-all. Instead of …