Happy New Year, everyone! While we’ve had to ‘survive and exist’ in the past years given the circumstances we were presented with, I hope we can make 2024 be our year full of self-discovery, personal growth, and becoming alive. Here’s to turning all our daydreams into beautiful realities. ❤
All smiles,
Here’s last year’s birthday treat to myself: Booking a 2-day tour to meet Whang-Od, the oldest mambabatok of the Buscalan Tattoo Village in Kalinga. It was a surreal experience meeting up close a centenarian and a national living treasure. I also took the chance to be tattooed by her and her kin, and mingle with fun, cool solo joiners too. Look at the tattoos I got! (Warning: picture-heavy!)
Continue readingI can’t believe it almost took me a year to finally finish the series of posts for this 3-day trip hahaha. I’m really sorry, life has been messy! I already told you that this Ilocos Tour is a dream for me and it’s a place that I’ve always wanted to go back to. But that is because of my fascination for beautiful architectural designs; and this third day experience didn’t disappoint! I finally returned to my favorite city – Vigan.
Last day means making the most out of it! The blazing heat of the north was nothing for us, backpackers. Our itinerary for the day included the Laoag City Church and Bell Tower, Malacanan of the North, Bantay Church and Bell Tower, and Vigan’s Calle Crisologo. Read more to view the places we went and the pictures I took!
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‘Di na natuto. I feel like I’m always doing something wrong. For context, same time last year, I was in the exact same position feeling a heartbreak on January, where even the dates match. Only this time, I’m worrying over a different person. Grabe ‘no, there’s just too much heartaches in this lifetime and I don’t know if I would still be sane moving forward to a meaningful relationship in the future.
I don’t even know why I am posting this. I really thought I was smarter this time – because it took longer than expected, but I was still surprised at how abrupt it ended. Maybe it was for the good. Another character development for me in the making. Currently, I’m in the process of doing things on my own (again) and reclaiming my freedom. I will be detailing the stuff I am doing to get over this, I’m just not in the right mind/emotions right now to be writing about them. That’s all. 🙂
Friends, I hope you experience the love you deserve and not having your heart broken into pieces.
Still with all the smiles in the world,
It’s been a loooong time coming but here’s the second installment of my Ilocandia trip! Day 2 revolved around touring the most famous landmarks in the region – Pagudpud’s Blue Lagoon, Bantay Abot Cave, Patapat Viaduct, Bangui Windmills, and Cape Bojeador Lighthouse. Read more to see the beauty of the seas and mountains, combined with architectural structures!
After having some drinks with the other joiners and taking a restful sleep the previous night, we woke up the next day around 7am to avail the free breakfast in our lodge. Tho the egg, hotdog and rice combo didn’t fill my tummy, the shared itinerary to us was enough to fill my adventure bucket for the day!
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Donna Daydreams 