Why we Travel by Pico Lyer

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."

We "need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."

I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that's "moral" since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night.

Few of us ever forget the connection between "travel" and "travail," and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship -- both my own, which I want to feel, and others', which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion -- of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind"

(by: Pico Lyer on Why we Travel, March 18, 2000)

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Ann's Place, Mirador Hills, Baguio City

On top of Mirador Hills, is Anns' Place, a transient / pension house. clean and affordable.

Their friendster and e-mail address is annsplace_baguio@yahoo.com

The room rates are P200 per person for regular rooms and P300 per person for the rooms that are good for two (2) people only.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Gracious Hotel Angeli' Rates

Tariff Rates

ROOM TYPE RATE
Mini Stay (3 hours) P500
Succeeding HOurs 100/hour
1 Double Bed (2 persons) P1,400
2 Single Beds (2 persons) P1,450
1 Single Bed (1 person) P 950
1 Double, 1 Single (3 persons) P1,750
2 Single Beds (4 persons) P2,150
Family Room (6 persons) P2,750
BAckpackers 500 / persons

*Rates are inclusive of breakfast
*All rooms are standard
*Extra Person (12 years old and above) P150
(below 12 years old) Pfree
*All rates are tax inclusive
*Rates are subject to change without prior notice




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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Baden Powell Inn

"your home in Baguio"

26 Gov. Pack Road, Baguio City
Telephone Numbers: 074-442-5836; 074-442-8177



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