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With a relatively flat trail, a 2 to 3 hour hike, and beautiful scenery from start to finish, Mt. Pinatubo is certainly one of the best trails for beginners. Famous for its catastrophic eruption in 1991, this active volcano rising 1,495 meters above sea level has now become one of the most popular hiking destinations in Luzon.
Are you planning to try it out? Read our guide here to prepare for your Mt. Pinatubo hike!
[Read more…] about How to Prepare for Your Mt. Pinatubo HikeMagic talismans and good luck charms have been part of human culture since time immemorial. In Japan there are omamori charms, nazar boncuğu in Turkey and Greece, and anting-anting in the Philippines. In Thailand, Buddhist monks pray to amulets to give wearers different kinds of blessings.
Personally, if I’m going to travel abroad, I’d want something other than those crappy souvenir shirts that I’m never going to wear. I’d either buy something I can use like the phin coffee filter I got in Vietnam, or I’d get a trinket or piece of jewelry. When I found out that amulets are an important part of Thai culture, I decided to get one for myself!
Here’s how you can have an amulet as a souvenir from the Amulet Market, and how you can own some REAL “blessed by monks” Thai amulets.
[Read more…] about Buying Souvenirs in Amulet Market Thailand“How difficult is the hike?” Whenever I invite a first timer to hike a mountain with me, that’s one of the first questions they ask. Normally, “beginner mountains” with simple trails are easy enough to complete for first time hikers, especially if they’re reasonably fit and don’t have any serious medical problems.
Still, it’s really hard to estimate what a mountain hike is like unless you have something to compare it to, and the easiest thing to compare hiking to is climbing a building!
If a mountain is a certain height in meters above sea level (MASL), how many floors of a building would that be like? I went to a local shopping mall with a 29-floor office tower to check.
[Read more…] about Going Hiking? Here’s How to Compare a Mountain Hike to Climbing a BuildingI read that when traveling abroad, you should shop around when you’re trying to exchange your currency for the local one. I had no idea how important that tip was until it almost ruined our multi-country trip.
When we traveled to Vietnam and Thailand last March 2019, we made sure to prepare a good amount of cash for the trip. We made sure we have more than enough for food and transportation, tourist attractions, and souvenirs. The hotels and guided tours were all paid in advance. On the last third of our trip, however, we were quite surprised when we realized that we somehow spent most of our travel fund and we needed to cut back on all expenses.
It was really odd as we weren’t splurging at all. We didn’t do a lot of shopping and the cost of meals and transportation in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh and Bangkok were very similar to Manila. We budgeted for it all, so what happened?
Welcome to this new travel and adventure website started by Ray of YourWealthyMind.com.
Why did I start this blog? Simple! Aside from writing about personal finance and self-improvement, I also love to travel. Some of my favorite places are beaches full of corals and ocean life, mountain trails surrounded by dense jungles, and all sorts of scenic and historic locations in the city.
Now, since I enjoy writing all sorts of guides on YourWealthyMind.com, I decided to start this travel and adventure blog too!
Here are some previews of the kinds of places I’ll write about!
Anyway, that’s it for my introduction! Stay tuned for more!
