COPING WITH CULTURE SHOCK It’s never easy settling into a new home and a new country, no matter how much we embellish our feelings…
Guess where I went not so long ago? Beautiful island, fabulous beach, climbed up Mount Pinatubo , visited a drop-dead-divine-destination such as Puerto Galera…
Travel has an aura of glamour. Doesn’t it? But not today, not if you are in The Philippines, a country which is suffering huge…
Climbing Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines is an adventure not for the fainthearted. It must rank as one of the great hikes of the world but it’s a long, hot walk to the crater through weirdly beautiful yet desolate scenery Mount Pinatubo rumbled awake, after 600 years of peace, during June 1991. The inferno which followed displaced almost a million people from Central Luzon and destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland. About 41,000 homes were destroyed and hundreds of people died.