https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:12:34 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83216 April 8th, 2026 We were headed to Pagudpud – a beach area in the north of the island of Luzon.  Supposed to have it’s own “white beach”.   The drive was pretty rural with lots of small towns and farmland with rice, corn and tobacco being the main crops we could figure out. The town of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:44:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83097 April 5th, 2026 Happy Easter! We had set our alarm for 5:30 am as we did not hear back from our transport before going to bed but upon ringing we saw a message that they’d pick us up at 7:30 not six. We tried to go back to sleep with no luck. After packing up […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/white-beach-boracay-ph/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:06:38 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82937 March 31st, 2026 We have been to the Philippines before – back in 2014 when Fran retired and Doug went to part time and we took a “round the world” to celebrate before beginning full time overlanding. Back then, we didn’t do country info so we’ll do it here. The Philippines, is an archipelago country in Southeast Asia […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-south-in-taiwan/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:08:24 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82465 March 27th, 2026 Today we were up early as the road into the Taroko National Park had first access opening between 7 and 8 am. We were told if we missed that the next window was 10:00 to 10:05, some short windows around noon and 3 and that the access is closed at 5.  We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taiwan-east-coast/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:15:46 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82256 March 25th, 2026 We left our hotel in Taipei before 8:30, walked to the Main train station and all on our own, we found the platform and track we needed to be at for our train trip to Hualien. It’s about a 2.5 hour trip and it made 4 stops. About a third of the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taipei-taiwan/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:16:08 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82129 March 20th, 2026 Taiwan operates as a de facto independent country with its own government, military, economy, and passport, yet it lacks widespread formal international recognition due to China’s “One China” principle. While Taiwan functions as a democracy, Beijing views it as a breakaway province, limiting its formal diplomatic recognition to around a dozen countries; […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/visa-run-part-3-borneo-and-back-to-singapore/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:35:54 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=76021 February 28th, 2025 Note: we were in Malaysia back in 2014 so there will be no “country blurb” this time – just a bit of info on the island of Borneo. Borneo is the third largest island in the world surpassed only by Greenland and New Guinea. Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/visa-run-part-2-indonesia/ Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:30:16 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=76025 February 22nd, 2025 Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago state. All in, it’s about ¼ the size of Australia and almost three times the size of the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/visa-run-part-1-singapore/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:31:15 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=75176 February 18th, 2025 As mentioned previously, we’ve decided to do our second visa run early as we feared that by the end of the 90 days that we’re allowed, we would not be near an international airport.  So we are basing ourselves in Singapore and from there doing return trips to Indonesia and Borneo. Singapore, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/our-final-week-in-vietnam/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:25:27 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=73365 December 11th, 2024 Our two hour flight from Hanoi back to Saigon was more or less on time .  We did end up waiting over 30 minutes for our bags but at least all three arrived! It was raining here in Ho Chi Minh but still around 29 C / 84 F and humid. We […]]]>