•••name the place/s you really want to see•••

[???§ÎNNëÐ???]

1. machu picchu in peru
2. egypt
3. paris, france
4. iceland
5. any african countries

Bodacious.
¿Y usted?

nakalimutan ko pala:

6. brazil (lapit lang dito sa costa rica pero wala akong pera eh. te hehe)
7. weddell sea sa anarctica (cleanest sea)
8. argentina at chile

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[Ira]

1. The Louvre, and Provence (inspired by author Peter Mayle!) in France
2. Greece's coliseums
3. Egypt's pyramids
4. Austria's lakes and alps
5. Italy's museums and landmarks
6. South Africa's wildlife parks and safaris

[Artemis]

1. The Eiffel Tower in France
2. The pyramids in Egypt
3. Japan ( i just want to see how clean it really is)
4. New Zealand
5 Palawan ( they say nature here is so untouched)

[BoNiTa]

artemis: u should go to palawan..definitely one of the best! try going to el nido na rin kung kaya sa budget...

i want to see more of the philippines, and any european countries.... :) also to hawaii!

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[Mavi]

The ruins of Athens...
Venice on a sunny day...
Whatever part of Italy that makes good gelato...
Taj Mahal in India...
The castles of Europe...
Disneyworld...

[bunny]

I'd really like to visit:

1. Monaco
2. Cannes
3. Morocco
4. Boracay!!! (kawawa naman ako noh?)

[zyxthyn]

H E A V E N

[CaRaMBa]

bunny, hindi ka nag-iisa! :)

I would like to visit the European countries, such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, etc. And all the places that you guys have mentioned already. Ang dami!

But first I'd like to see the good places here in the Philippines, such as Palawan, Cagayan, the new places in Davao, etc. Gads, ang dami pala, I just realized!

[Cy]

Europe
almost al the places here in the Phil.
New Zealand

[weye]

local:
1. palawan
2. mindoro
3. sulu/tawi-tawi
4. aparri

abroad:
1. russia
2. egypt
3. singapore
4. switzerland
5. south africa

[dantedawg]

1. boracay
2. palawan
3. el nido
4. subic :)
5. Paris
6. Cartagena, Colombia
7. Puerto Rico
8. Costa Rica
9. London(again) the best kasi eh!
10.Monte Carlo

[kmunster]

in the phils : bacolod, cebu, vigan

abroad : Tower of London, Germany, South Africa, China, Aspen, Fox Studios, White House

[krayola]

I suggest u add on list CAMIGUIN. That place used to be on top of my list. Fortunately, I got the opportunity to go there so it moved to other category. I tell u its really an enchanting island it actually claimed me.

[CaRaMBa]

Waaaaaaaaah! This topic is so depressing. Things you realize after reading the messages:
1) Have to make a lot of money to be able to visit all those places!
2) Parang a lifetime isn't enough to see all the nice places in the world.

*sigh*

[zyxthyn]

okay aside from HEAVEN i also like to not only see but VISIT the following places:

in the philippines:
(1) cebu
(2) palawan
(3) davao
(4) boracay!

other partz of d world:
(1) italy
(2) paris, and other european country
(3) california
(4) new york
(5) japan

CaRaMBa, k lang yan, free lang naman ang pangarap, at least we have a goal to work hard for. ;)

when would that be?

[krayola]

???§ÎNNëÐ???: Superganda talaga! Until now I haven't overcome my post-Camiguin syndrome. Sure, I'll go with u basta ba sagot mo, eh. ;)

[The Saint]

Zyxthyn, be careful what you wish...it may just come true...hehe!

I'd really love to see:

Israel especially Jerusalem
Spain
Rome
London
Paris
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Mexico, Puerto Rico
Africa
HongKong
Russia

Suerte mo naman sinned, how do you get to go around?

[???§ÎNNëÐ???]

oo nga naman CaRaMBa! ako nga nun hanggang dream lang pero ngayon nakakapag-travel travel na ako.

krayola:
ganda ba talaga sa camiguin? punta nga ako ryan pagbalik ko sa flipins pero samahan mo ko. :-)

Bodacious.
The best place in the world is your heart.

[Moiraine]

a) I'd like to backpack across Europe;
b) Africa, especially Egypt;
c) Japan, Singapore, China, India;
d) South California, White House, top of Empire State Bldg, Busch Gardens;
e) Boracay, Palawan, Subic (yong napuntahan ko sa Subic noon pathetic).

Medyo kaka-depress nga isipin na ang dami- daming places gusto puntahan baka hindi naman mangyari *sigh*

[Moiraine]

pahabol: UN building in NY

[-CRiMSoN-]

Too many to mention but I have 3 places in mind:

Egypt and the Holy Land (Israel) to continue my journey of the ancient civilization.

And ... when I find the courage to go for “real” adventure, I would love to visit Palawan. I’m not talking about the clubmed on the tip of the island or any of the resorts. You can find those just about anywhere. I just think it would be awesome to spend a few days in one of the tribes up on Palawan mountain and experience the culture, religion, and day to day life of some “native Filipinos”. One tribe in particular visited by a friend last summer is “Kadawan” (not sure if the spelling is correct) and his experiences were priceless! Well, if I can ever carry out this adventure I would implore “Lonely Planet” to send their crews along. They don’t even have to pay me! (hehehe i wish!)... anyone else wanna come along?

This is off topic but what is ATBP?

[???§ÎNNëÐ???]

Ang gagaling ng mga places na gusto n'yong puntahan!

Moiraine: nararamdaman kong makakapag-travel ka next year. lucky color: blue...lucky number 7...te hehehe. huwag kang mag-alala at matutupad 'yang dream mo na makapag-travel dun sa mga places na 'yan.

krayola:
sige! sige! 'yung friend ko nga rin sabi n'ya awesome raw talaga sa camuigin, pero hindi ako nakasama kasi paalis na ako ng flipns nun. sige pag-uwi ko punta tayo run.

The Saint:
te hehehe. courtesy of my wonderful bro who is an airline employee. sarap humitch sa plane, anywhere in the world pa! lol. travel tax lang ang babayaran, eh sayang naman, so taking advantage si sinned.

Bodacious.

[The Saint]

Sinned: Wow...my dad used to be an airline pilot before the strike. Libre pasaje but the travel tax is really a killer. I have an uncle who suggested back-pack traveling across the world, you know just go there with and bahala na how to survive...but I find it kinda dangerous...but I'd really love to try it one time. Have you ever done that, just go to another country then bahala na when you get there where you'll stay, how to get cheap meals?

If you ask me, that's even more exciting than just booking the next travel package with the agency...not to mention, mas cheaper pa!

[???§ÎNNëÐ???]

yup yup yup The Saint, that's even more exciting and yes i tried that before. i went to bangkok (just me), before kasi my bro wouldn't allow me to travel by myself, eh tinakasan ko eh kasi kj 'tong si bro. man, there were nights na palakad-lakad lang ako sa bangkok, spent pa nga a couple of nights sa mga bars sa patpong (red-light district sa bangkok) till dawn tapos lakad-lakad na naman the following day, kain kung saan-saan, walang hotel basta kung saan ako abutin ng gabi tanong na lang ako kung saan 'yung may murang kwarto.

so 'yun 'yung simula. experienced that too in hongkong and narita, japan, singapore and beijing. 'yung last trip ko sa toronto ('yun talaga 'yung the blast, rave parties, ecstasy...hehe thanks sa friends ko na willing na willing mag-host...hi tristen! hi coy! lol). kainis nga eh dito sa latin america eh magakakalapit lang ang nicaragua, panama, colombia, venezuela etc. pero 'di ako makatakas ng costa kasi wala akong time (at pera te hehe). imagine mo na lang para ka lang pupunta ng baguio going to panama and nicaragua from san jose, costa rica, tapos parang bacolod naman if u go to venezuela (sabi ng costa rican friends ko araw-araw ka raw makakakita ng miss universe beauties dun na palakad-lakad lang sa calzada, te hehehe! saya!), di pa kailangan ng visa. target ko talaga 'yan before the year 2000.

and hey The Saint, 'yun nga 'yung masaya dun 'yung adventure, not really dangerous basta alam mo na you gonna see lotsa gorgeous latinas! te hehehe!

Bodacious.
Korea Airlines is far better than China Airlines.

[JUNXB102]

1) Tokyo, Japan
2) London, England
3) The Majestic Castles of Germany
4) Picture perfect New Zealand
5) Los Angeles, California
6) The Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
7) Venice before it sinks

[zyxthyn]

The Saint, by faith i know that someday i'll be able to visit those places...how about u? do u think u would be able to visit d places u listed? hope so :)

[Moiraine]

-CRiMSoN-: I believe ATBP is At Iba Pa

???§ÎNNëÐ???: Nako sana mag dilang anghel ka. Swerte mo libre plane fare! Yon ang mahal e. My friend and I talked about backpacking across Europe. Sabi nya wag magdala ng pera masyado tapos take odd jobs, tipong di mo alam saan ka kukuha ng pera for your next meal or lodging. Di ako ganon ka-adventurous.
You're the one who's taking up masters in french and spanish translation, right? cool! How long's the program and what are the requirements?

[BoNiTa]

sinned: quite adventurous huh! well that's what i call exciting! my dad's kinda adventurous too, he even wants the whole family to go back-packing across europe, pero puno plans lang yun, or else mamumulubi kami... we're 10 in the family..hehehe
but i'm still glad to say that i've been to some of the beautiful places in the phils. and i'm telling u there are a lot to see! there's cebu, bacolod (manukan country!), iloilo, palawan, banawe rice terraces (sagada), vigan, ilocos norte (pagudpod), boracay... so far those are some of the places i've been to that i can recommend.... :)

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[Meiji]

Pinas muna tayo: gusto kong makapunta sa Ilocos region, Cebu, Mindoro, Surigao, Camiguin, Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro at siempre sa Palawan.

labas na tayo ng Pinas: gusto kong makapunta sa Europe: Italy, France, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, stop na muna (di ko memorize ang lahat ng bansa na kabilang sa Europa =D)

gusto ko rin makapunta sa Hawaii, pati na rin sa mga islands, sa Fiji islands, sa Caribbean, sa South America

hayyy, ang sarap mangarap :)

[chloe]

sa INDIA!!!
kahit pa sabi nila hindi maganda ang simoy ng hangin dun, mukhang sobrang okay. . .maraming misteryo, spiritual tsaka colorful.
pero, well, baka naman nagkakamali ako.

[wolverine]

local:
1) palawan
2) tubbataha reef (spellcheck pls.)
3) bohol
4) vigan
5) camiguin (krayola& sinned... kayo kasi e)
global:
1) australia; specifically d great barrier reef
2) bahamas
3) the jungles of africa
4) the mountains of europe

moiraine, sinned & the saint:
gusto ko ding maging backpacker. tara... sama ko sa inyo. (parang ganon ka dali)



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[Yoshi]

1. Ruins of Atlantis
2. Ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah
3. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
4. Yung pinaglalagyan ng spaceship sa Antarctica (remember X-Files movie?)
5. Siquijor
6. Bermuda Triangle
7. Outer Space
8. Mt. Everest
9. Marianas Trench
10. Bosnia-Herzegovina

Seriously though, I'd like to take that trip which takes you to almost everywhere in the Philippines. I remember a magazine article that featured an all-Pinas trip in 30 days (not sure) or so. Also, I'd like to set foot on every country and continent before I die. Hindi naman sa ambisyoso ako, pero...

[Moiraine]

PePs kakatakot nga! Kaya I don't think it's a good idea to go backpacking alone.
I was thinking the same thing, try mo do odd jobs pero in case of emergencies, whip out your visa card *ting*

wolverine: kung wala sigurong big bodies of water separating us from europe madaling pumunta ron, sayang di ako magaling mag swimming *sigh*

Yoshi may friend ako family nya nag tour ng philippines, cruise of several weeks ata. Travel by boat at night, then in the morning they'll land somewhere and spend the day there, then travel to another place again at night. Sarap!

[kaWaii]

I have to say Antarctica, I wanna see king and emperor penguins. Crabeater, ross and leopards seals and of course humpbacked and blue whales.

[slurbrun]

1. Taj Majal, India (imagine a great tomb for a Great Love).
2. The Great Kalahari Desert, Africa (pero yaw kong ma-stuck don ha)
3. Thailand (and see their legendary pagodas and ride on their elephants)
4. Antarctica (yup Kawaii, I'd like to see Penguins too)
5. Eiffel Tower, France (I'd love to see the whole of France from there)
6. Italy (w their cathedrals and gondolas)

Yun muna.

Ps. Bonita: Sarap sa Pagudpod noh! Reminisce na naman ako tuloy!

sinned: kaya pala di ka na sumusulat ha! Ubos na ang time mo dito! Balita ko Top Poster ka pa!

[jeriko]

sa 'pinas, i want to visit the caves of sagada.

outside, i want to experience tibet and nepal.

hey people, for those of you who wanted to go to europe, the best time is now. because of the schengen treaty, you will only need one member country visa to visit the other member countries. also, since most of europe is connected by train, this is the best means of transpo to get around the place. more sights for lesser hassles.

[krayola]

chloe: Pagnakapunta ka diyan, isa lang ang masasabi ko sa 'yo: GOODLUCK, sister! (h'wag mong kakalimutan ang gas mask)*LOL*

[jaypogi]

AUSTRALIA

MARS or just trip around the world

[with_a_K]

New Zealand, to take the LotR tour.

[AccousticGuitar]

Originally posted by bunny
I'd really like to visit:

1. Monaco
2. Cannes
3. Morocco
4. Boracay!!! (kawawa naman ako noh?)

Same here, bunny :)

[Fish]

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. 60% of the world's most important works of art are located in Italy and approximately half of these are in Florence. Perhaps a day, a weekend, a week, or a month for some much-needed rest and relaxation.

[p0seR]

Galapagos Island
Egypt
Chichen Itza
Brazil

[crazybeautiful]

:spinstar: Florence, Milan, and Venice in Italy.
:spinstar: Paris, France
:spinstar: Cancun, Mexico

really interesting place (and kinda creepy too)
:spinstar: Loch Ness, Scotland (loch ness monster??) :)

[Woodbine]

PARISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! :bounce:

[lorb18]

1.ROME,ITALY

2.ACAPULCO IN MEXICO

3 PARIS,FRANCE

4.TANZANIA IN AFRICA

5.BANGKOK,THAILAND

6 NEW YORK

[LordVideoGame]

I live in the US, lived in the PI growing up and visited Paris many times because My dad worked there for several years. I have already been to England, Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. I hope to visit Spain Portugal, the Middle East including Beirut. I saw a special on Beirut on MSNBC and was surprised with how good it is developing. I would also like to see the continents that I haven't been yet like Africa and South America.

[hubes]

I've also been fortunate enough to be surrounded by relatives and friends who love to travel so I've been to several places both here in the Philippines and abroad.

Some of the places I would like to go to are:
1. Kashmir, between India & Pakistan - I've heard that it's quite breathtaking but, obviously, it's next to impossible to go there now since India & Pakistan are disputing the area.
2. Libya - a country who has lived through several empires (the Roman, Macedonian, Cartegenian come to mind) has several ruins that are at par or even surpass those in Italy or Greece. Unfortunately, it's travel there at your own risk!
3. The Galapagos Islands - any nature buff would know why.
4. Turkey - it's like Israel or Greece, there is so much history in the place.
5. The Adventure Grand Slam - it's not a place but you'll have to go to several places to complete it. You'll have to climb the highest mountain in each of the seven continents (Everest & Kilimanjaro are among them) and reach both the North & South Pole. BTW, if I'm not mistaken, you have to complete this within a year. This, of course, is just a dream. I haven't even reached the summit of Mt. Apo. :)

[yseult]

i dream of wandering along the banks of the Arno towards the Ponte Vecchio. The famous 14th-century bridge lined with shops selling gold and silver jewellery - the bridge was the only one in the city to escape destruction during WWII.

there are many things around worth seeing- museums and Renaissance structures, people, shops etcetera. but i would find it most remarkable just walking along the Arno, breathing in the romance of Florence.

[miss_d]

Pwede sa Philippines?

Batanes - I hear it's really beautiful up there... Mahirap nga lang puntahan.
Palawan - Paradise daw talaga?
Sagada - tagal ko na pina-plan to go, but haven't had time:(

Abroad...

Morocco
Greece
Africa
Scotland

Grabe, super dami pa... Kaka-watch kasi ng Lonely Planet e:)

[seahorse_seeker]

dami ako gusto puntahan eh. here are some:

- france
- italy
- rome
- greece
- austria
- south africa
- fiji
- germany
- thailand
- hawaii
- egypt

sana trip around the world na lang...the more countries i can go to the happier i will be...:D

[Stiletto]

Stonehenge
The Castles in Ireland
Antartica
Alexandria,Egypt
Romania
Maldives
Milan

[keiwai]

local:

sagada
pagudpod
batanes
camiguin
palawan

international:
japan :jap: (d best! ganda! :handsdown: )
china (when i was a kid, we studied chinese geography, and i swore to myself that i'd tour every single province each year. there are 35, and i've only been to .. probably 8-10 provinces. dang!!! :hmm: super laki ng place! and i'd really like to go to tibet !! argh :frustrated: )
nepal (really cheap pashminas daw, plus the views are breathtaking daw)
new zealand
australia (haven't been to the west coast & the outback)
israel, egypt, etc. (i'd really like to go on the holy land tour)
greece, morocco, areas around the mediterranean
south africa

and a looooooooot more!!!
:beam:

[SUX2BU]

I'll go to the following places this year:

Uruguay, Paraguay, Galapagos, St. Lucia, and Egypt.

[artfuldodger]

Heaven?

[Sorsha]

1. Japan - I want to see the Dojos and the Samurai houses if there are any left
2. Thailand
3. Egypt
4. Singapore
5. China
6. India
7. Europe

[angel02]

Europe...Europe...Europe!!! :) :) :)

[hang10_girl]

When I was in high, all I dreamed of was France .....

But my first priority is to see what my country has to offer....m not being nationalistic...i jaz wanted to be able to tell stories about my own country when I am able to visit France later in the future (ewan ko kung kelan yon,,,hheheh!)

Siempre no, *** if tanong ka ng mga French. mas maganda if u ken tell them stories that u felt, seen it....

1 - Phil....mga beautiful places natin...
2 - Thailand
3 - Japan
4 - France

mmmmm..........m starting na nga eh.,.......

siempre save muna and go to places I can afford na....:rolleyes: :)

[Freakworks]

I'd like to go to the Christmas Island. Wala lang. Para masabi ko lang na nakapunta na ako don. Hehe!!!

[cissy]

abroad:

hawaii
new york
washington d.c.
spain


philippines:

davao
palawan
camiguin
sagada


:girl:

[whyte]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


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Here's the best about RIO...............

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[whyte]

OOOpppppssssss nagkamali ako sa the best!!!!!!!!!!


Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


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Here's the best about RIO...............

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[whyte]

Presenting

LAS VEGAS!!!!!!!!!

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[whyte]

Wish you were here......


POSITANO, ITALY


Remeber the movie, ONLY YOU, Robert Downey Jr. and i4got the actress......


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[jkristee27]

Bora Bora Island
Kyoto, Japan

[starfish07]

DIsNEY WORLD in ORLANDO FL.

Eiffel Tower in Paris

whoa kelan kaya!?

[donttrytodareme]

jerusalem

rome

syempre sa beautiful 7000+ islands of the philippines...

[Triglyceride]

I'd like to go to:

in the Philippines:

Palawan and that underground river and Malapacao Beach Resort
Bohol *chocolate hills*


then that place where they shot Tomb Rader in Cambodia
- Bali Indonesia

New Zealand
Costa Rica
Machu Pichu in the andes in Peru
Nazca Peru
Yucatan
Egypt
Jamaica
Italy - Venice, Italian Riviera, Tuscanny, Tivoli, Siena, Dolomites etc..
Netherlands
Galapogos Is.
Spain
Germany
Greece
France
Australia - all because I'd like to meet Steve Irwin :D
Rio de Janero *did I spell that right?*
Switzerland
St. Petersburg Russia
Some African Safari place ...

etc.. etc.. etc....

[whyte]

BERMUDA......

Just curious about the BEACHES WITH PINK SANDS.....


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[cruiser]

i would love to visit Amsterdam and Paris

[wuzwee]

*Lahore, Pakistan
*Nepal, India
*The Great Barrier Reef, Australia
*Christchurch, New Zealand
*Marawi City
*Sulu
*Tawi-Tawi
*Batanes Islands
*Babuyan Islands
*Ibiza, Spain
*Bali, Indonesia
*at marami pang iba......:D :D

[zero_eight]

boracay
palawan
cebu
paris
new york
jerusalem
australia
canada
hawaii
egypt
phuket thailand
rio de janiero

[chaico]

holy land, ireland, new york city, austria, paris, japan, australia

cebu, camiguin, palawan, vigan

[emiru]

i wish to go to...

-Hokkaido
-Venice
-Morocco
-Sicily
-Brazil
-anywhere exotic actually :) either they're rich in culture and history or famous for their beautiful crafts

[jaypogi]

:goldfish:underwater
and
ANIME WORLD

[crack_wise]

bali
ibiza
grand canaries
bahamas

[sweetchick]

* IBIZA
*GREECE
*ROME

[richyuppie]

Spain and Egypt!!!

Indeed!

[chuen10]

places where i can swim with dolphins, tour around europe and china =)

[Cerberus]

Anywhere in the north where I can see the Aurora Borealis.

Angel Falls in Venezuela.

The Pyramids at Giza.

Macchu Picchu in Peru.

The snow-capped mountains of Switzerland or the Andes mountain ranges of South America.

The Serenggeti plain in Africa, preferably during the antelope, wildebeste and bufallo migrations---complete with hunting predators in the wayside. Imagine seeing Cheetahs and wild dogs pursuing antelopes, and lions mowing down bufallos. Huwaw. :)

[Ryousuke]

Venice.
Milan.
Ibiza.
Touring across Europe in the sports car of your dreams with your SO and unlimited cash/credit :P
Tokyo's famous clubs and an outdoor rave in the mountains of Japan; a stay at a traditional onsen with complete spa treatment, then watching fireflies in the evening. Plus a visit to the hometown of the Shinsengumi, and one to watch the racers take the wangan route on the Shutoko..
Fly around the world, touching down at spots like Alexandria, and chase the night to party around the globe.
Revisit Egypt.
Mount Kilimanjaro and Kenya to watch cheetahs.
Rome and Athens.
Aphrodisias, the ancient city completely made of white marble that enjoyed Augustus Caesar's patronage, in Turkey.
Tibet, and its places of worship.
Switzerland, and a genuine Alpine meadow.
A fjord in Norway.
Iceland, and go on a cross-country trek on Icelandic ponies, if I don't freeze to death.
Alaska on a wildlife and glacier trip.
Florence.
Vienna to see the Lipizzaners.

[hang10_girl]

Places that I really wanna see....

of course, my very own country...yung di ko pa talaga kita....(hehehe!!! madami pa yon))

;)

also, my all-time fave...France the beautiful and interesting place i love to see talaga....

the ruins of athens
eiffel tower
the wild safari of africa
the exotic carribean
thailand, too

kelan kayo ako punta dun????:rolleyes:

[ReLaTiViTy]

definitely, paris... kaya lang sana i'm with somebody special when i visit that place. mas memorable yata if you're with somebody special.

[pinkpotato]

:spinstar: Italy
:spinstar: Paris, France
:spinstar: Bahamas
:spinstar: West Minster Abbey

[shades_of_grey]

Batanes
Laoag
Mt. Apo
Mt. Pulag
Mt. Guiting-guiting
Camiguin
Revisit Palawan
Bukidnon
Sagada
Explore the Mountain Province

:tourist: Basta TOUR MY OWN COUNTRY FIRST THEN TOUR THE COUNTRY OF OUR NEIGHBORS THEN GO FAR OFF TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE.

Malaysia
Korea
Japan
New Orleans!
Louisiana Plantations
Venice
Naples
London
Paris
Highlands of Scotland
Athens
Great Pyramids of Egypt
India
Hawaii
Alaska

[Cerberus]

I'd like to share this narrative I came across just awhile ago. It's one of the best essays I've read on the magical appeal and enchanting allure of travel. :)
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Pilgrim's passion

By Pico Iyer

A peripatetic seeker reflects on the quest at the heart of the pilgrimage.

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Dec. 15, 1999 | Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys for me are the ones in which every answer opens onto deeper and more searching questions. Every traveler is on a quest of sorts, but the pilgrim stands out because his every step is a leap of faith, and his journey is through such states as penitence and prayer. Unlike a typical adventurer, the pilgrim seeks not to conquer the worlds he visits but to surrender to them; and unlike a missionary, he seeks not to preach but, in the silence of his supplication, to listen. A pilgrim does not have to be moving toward something holy, I think, so much as toward whatever resides in the deepest part of him: It could be a poet who gave wings to his soul, or a lover who broke his heart open. The most eternal pilgrim in literature -- always referred to as such -- is Romeo.

Yet even as the pilgrim thinks she knows where, and why, she's going, the beauty of every trip is that circumstances are far wiser than she is, and she seldom ends up where she expected to. Her unseen partner on the road is serendipity. Several years ago, too settled in an office in Rockefeller Center in New York, I decided to travel to the land I'd always dreamed of, Japan; I wanted to learn about simplicity and kindness in a monastery. I flew over to Kyoto, checked into a Zen temple on the back streets and, after a week or so, found that the routine was much more familiar than I'd expected. So I stepped out, and instantly found much of the compassion and wisdom I'd been seeking -- in the modern city all around, the woman standing at the temple gates. God comes to see us, as Emerson writes, without bell.

Like anyone, I've taken my pilgrimages in every direction of my inner compass, and to every corner of the shrine I carry round inside me. Our souls are always traveling, of course, and whatever we find in Jerusalem we could also find at home. Yet the very fact of moving quickens our attention, and jettisons our habits, in a way that leaves us wide awake to what otherwise we might take for granted. So I have gone to Taos, to see where D.H. Lawrence conducted his "savage pilgrimage"; to Tibet, where local pilgrims walk for months on end, across the empty plains, prostrating themselves every step of the way; to Cambodia, most recently to see how people live amid ghosts and broken memories. Once, traveling to the rock caves around Lalibela, in Ethiopia, by mule, through a landscape of cedar trees and olives, I was humbled to notice that the people all around me had come on foot, traveling for weeks in dusty robes, while fasting. Why had they come to this unprepossessing spot? Because, they said, between joyful ululations, to come here was to come to heaven.

In the mind's eye, a pilgrimage is generally a straight line, from here to there (from being lost to being found); in practice, however, it is more often a kind of circle, as in the ritual circumambulations that worshipers make in Tibet, in India or around the Islamic Ka'ba. A pilgrim's journey, unlike a traveler's, never ends; it only deepens. That is the thrust of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" -- that all our life is a pilgrimage -- and it is part of the reason, I'm sure, why so many religions have a tradition of mendicancy and wandering. The great contemporary pilgrims -- I'm thinking here of Annie Dillard and Peter Brook, Van Morrison and John le Carré (a "secret pilgrim," like many of us) -- are all essentially traveling deeper into faith and doubt at the same time: deeper into complexity. In that sense, it matters little whether they're surrounded by tolling bells or clanging sirens.

Yet reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting oneself, quite literally, in the footsteps of the past. Once upon a less secular time, almost everyone made pilgrimages, and most of the great works of our early literature -- Dante's ascent into the stars, Chaucer's wanderers to Canterbury, the tales of Orpheus and Odysseus and Hercules -- commemorate both inward and outward journeys; these days, I suspect, many of us travel in part to experience pilgrimage by proxy. Most of the travelers in this volume leave home, as I have done, to partake of someone else's pilgrimage, and so to learn what animates people to undertake such sacrificial tasks; the destination of pilgrimage is pilgrimage itself.

Cont'd...

[Cerberus]

It's striking, too, to see how many of these travelers are moving deliberately backward. They go on foot -- a relative luxury in a time of cars and trains and planes -- and they travel, often, in simple, anonymous robes, with a staff, petitioning, as monks do, for their food and shelter. In an age of flashing screens and jumbo jets, the pilgrim is a traveler into candlelight. And a large part of the discipline he embraces comes in the sloughing off of self -- literally (as when Michael Wolfe becomes just another hajji, generally addressed as Roy Thomas) and metaphorically (as in Barbara Wilson's searing account of how pain and rage in the desert annulled her previous stories of herself). "Abandon self, all ye who enter here" could be the inscription written on the pilgrim's door; Rachel Kadish's powerful memoir reminds us that we travel partially to return to selves we have forgotten, or people we didn't know we were (for worse as much as better).

Of course the pilgrim, like any traveler, is mostly traveling inside herself, to a destination not found on any map. Yet there is a palpable benefit in making the trip physically, on foot: The very feel of stones in Jerusalem, Alane Salierno Mason says, "has a charismatic effect on the whole body," much as, perhaps, the very act of getting down on our knees releases in us a kind of humanity and sweetness. The wonder, the intensity, the electricity of pilgrimage are infectious -- passed on like a holy fever -- and in Michael Wolfe's ecstatic account of making the trip to Makkah, we can feel the fires burning in every pilgrim's heart (if Wolfe had stayed in California, he'd have thought his destination was "Mecca").

Distinctions get buried on the road, and the pilgrim is keeping company with kindred spirits from distant centuries and continents; the first pilgrim to Canterbury, we learn here, walking on his knees, was a king, Henry II, traveling to atone for his execution of Thomas à Becket. Even here in my neighborhood in Japan, when I travel to my local temple I am taken out of the age I know, often, by the sight of yamabushi, or mountain pilgrims, done up in an outlandish shamanic gear of trinkets and cowrie shells and deer skins. The pilgrim moves into a realm of talismans and spells.

In a sense, these powerful souls remind us, all pilgrimage is a trial, and its adherents are tested by the road; the pilgrim is like the hero in some classic fairy tale, asked to perform various deeds of heroism and cunning to prove his love. Except in this case, the person asking is himself. In Japan, when he was growing up, a 90-year-old Zen painter once told me, children were taught to pay for suffering (it is such a privilege, and a catalyst for growth); in our more comfortable cultures, many people have to go abroad, on pilgrimage, to measure themselves against a pain that is reality. The heart of all our faiths is religio, or a rebinding, as the Latin term suggests.

The final thing that hits me, traveling with these contemporary pilgrims, is how fluid and beyond boundaries our pilgrims are today, in a world that's stepping across borders every minute: Gretel Ehrlich, a modern American, treads a Buddhist path in China, just as many Chinese make similar trips of worship to the Holy Land that is America (founded, after all, by pilgrims, and "discovered" by another votary who thought he'd come to India). A Christian learns from Buddhist monks, and agnostics learn from Christians. I, though born a Hindu, have never been to the Hindu holy place of Varanasi -- and yet have been lucky enough, in our mobile world, to sit before Notre Dame and Ayers Rock and the Buddhist caves of Laos. "To study the Way is to study the self," the great Zen teacher Dogen said. "To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be thus enlightened is to remove the barriers between one's self and others."

At the end of every pilgrimage, of course, you learn that ends are new beginnings, and that you see only what you brought with you. (Besides, "If you can understand it," as Augustine says, "then it is not God.") The main point of climbing to an icy cave in India, where a sadhu sits, is to realize (as Anne Cushman says) that one might be better off in California; except if one had remained in California, one would have always had unanswered questions about an icy cave in India. In any case, whatever is discovered cannot -- or need not -- be spelled out. "It is in seeking truth that we find enlightenment," the Catholic Father Laurence Freeman writes, "not in declaring it."

Thus the final redeeming beauty of the pilgrimage is that no step on such a trip is wasted, and whatever happens, however difficult, is good. "To seek God is to find him," said Gregory of Nyssa, "to find God is to seek him." Peter Matthiessen travels to Nepal to find the snow leopard and discovers that the main lesson he must learn comes from not finding the animal; Graham Greene goes to Mexico during the time of the persecution of priests and finds his modern savior in a broken, squalid "whisky priest," who forgets himself by reaching out toward the suffering.

And so we go on taking pilgrimages, in part because every discovery, however unlooked-for, is a step forward; but also, more deeply, because every one of us carries around, inside, a certain, unnamed homesickness, a longing for a place we left and don't know how to find again (the vision seen by Meaulnes in the haunting Alain-Fournier novel, the vanished Shangri-La sought by Conway in "Lost Horizon"). If there is a Golden Age behind us, we believe, there may be one ahead of us too. A pilgrim, ultimately, is a traveler moving toward the light, a light she hopes to collect and scatter across her path; where an adventurer may seek out a distant planet, the pilgrim only seeks the sun.

"All the way to heaven," as Catherine of Siena writes, "is heaven."

taken from salon.com | Dec. 15, 1999

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Very beautiful. :)

[indigo24]

Venice
Paris
Greece and all the sites of Greek Myth
Brazil
New York
Canada
Spain
Puerto Rico

[elle_xxiv]

Amanpulo in Palawan. I heard it's heaven talaga!

Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

there's also this place i saw on Lonely Planet, she went swimming in a coast full of thousands and thousands of Jellyfish! i forgot which country though pero exotic talaga.

I also want to see the Vienna Boys Choir. they're the best!

[mai_doze]

europe and see all the cathedrals there...

boracay and malapascua

the antartica...

actually all the places that my dad had gone to...all around the world...

[tortvader]

turkey
seychelles islands
vienna
paris
prague
greece

[NotYourGurL]

hollywood :spinstar:
paris, france (eiffel tower) :up:
palawan *palmtree*

[mukhang_bata]

paris, france
any european countries

[urbanchick]

ANYWHERE.. :dazzler:

[sagan]

Originally posted by elle_xxiv
Amanpulo in Palawan. I heard it's heaven talaga!

Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

there's also this place i saw on Lonely Planet, she went swimming in a coast full of thousands and thousands of Jellyfish! i forgot which country though pero exotic talaga.

I also want to see the Vienna Boys Choir. they're the best!

could that be the jellyfish lake in palau? yeah, that's a really eerie feeling and those jellyfish don't bite at all, ive held some of them anyway..

if i could i'd like to climb mt.everest...

[Denise_Marie]

i would like to be a tourist first here in our country in places like
- camiguin
- palawan
- boracay
- etc.

abroad would be in:
- hawaii
- france
- italy
- london
- morocco
- greece
- switzerland
- australia
- etc.

[belle128]

I really wanted to see :

1. Europe, esp. Italy & Spain
2. Bahamas (romantic & exotic)