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YTRIP tours and projects for Feb2009

 

   We invite you to join our tours and projects for  
February   2009:

 

The YTRIP Do-It-Yourself Itinerary-Making Contest
Open to all Metro Manila-based Pinoys, this itinerary-making contest is the most flexible and unbiased contest yet. All you need to do is go out, explore, document, and share! And hurry! Get the info HERE.

 

Backpacking Pilipinas: The Many Ways of Doing IT!
Practical info on backpacking solo, with a friend, or with a group. 
Free admission | February 19, Thursday, 7pm at ROX. Details will be posted in the YTRIP website soon

 

Culinary Tours for February 28, Saturday: 
1. Kulinarya Tagala: a special itinerary of Laguna and Quezon 
with Tina Decal.
2. Viajeng Cucina Matua: the old kitchens of Pampanga with Alquimista Trails.

Slots are limited. Deadline for reservations is on February 16.
Ideal for friends, families, couples, and even your mother-in-law!

For more information, click HERE.

 

PLUS! The YTRIP Shirt, printed by My Philippines, is now available in SM KULTURA branches. A portion of the shirt sales goes to us to support our education projects. See the Shirt HERE.

 

  

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Youth Trip Philippines (YTRIP) is a youth-led NGO that promotes responsible travel and local sustainable tourism to develop love for country, heritage, and everything else Pinoy. Visit our site at http://www.ytrip.org.ph. Kilalanin ang Sarili. Kilalanin ang Pilipinas.

Backpacking Pilipinas: Getting Lost and Loving It!

An Ode to the Core

 

This is a tribute to an amazing set of people who have helped revive the energy of YTRIP, at the same time, changed the course of my life. They gave me the most wonderful gift of all: Hope and Trust. They helped restore my faith in a lot of things, including (faith in) myself. 

I dont think any gift could equal what they gave me, and so I decided to just tell the world how grateful I am  (in return for what they have done).

I want to tell the world what amazing people you truly are. 

2008 was an unforgettable, pivotal year because of all of you. 

Thank you, to… 
 

A fabulous traveler and friend who made me believe again. 

A heritage lawyer who has faith in the goodness of the world.

A brave friend who truthfully follows her heart. 

A sister-friend who is great the way she is, where she is. 

An artist and (a) Brusco who works hard and plays hard. 

A fun friend who welcomes everybody and never runs out of amazing stories.

A traveler who found her heart and then she found her place in the sun. 

A devoted daughter, truth-seeker, and genuine soul-friend. 

An idealist and civil servant who will one day find her dreams fulfilled. 

 

A photographer who deserves life’s greatest adventures. 

A poet (who denies being one) who might have been a rockstar in a past life. 

An artist who lives with independence, passion, and faith. 

A friend who knows what it means when the grass is always greener then laughs about it heartily.

A dreamer whose patience, love for her home, and ideas sustain my hope.

A dear friend who has found her freedom. 

A big thank-you also goes to Apple and Phoebe for all the help and support they have given to YTRIP. My gratitude also goes the people who have, in many ways, helped YTRIP rise in 2008 (a separate entry will be dedicated to you).  

It was one grand adventure. Thank you for making the trip worth it. Thank  you for letting me see the gains of all the pain from the past.

2009 here we come! 

With love, gratitude, and life renewed - 

clare 

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Photos by Bert Bainto, Ron Nieto, Dax Cutab, Diane Reyes, Clare Amador, and Terri’s page  

 

Travel has to have some meaning…

 

 

    

and these people take it to heart: 

David Tajan, Leland Pasion, and Cherie McCosker of Bluewater, YTRIP Core, Anton Diaz of OAP, and Leo – the Filipino Pilgrim. 
 

We hope more people would find it, too.

 

Thank you R.O.X., Bluewater, and to everyone who went to Backpacking Pilipinas in R.O.X. 

More photos of Backpacking Pilipinas can be seen here. 

 

 

 

 

The Birth of “Backpacking Pilipinas”

TRAVEL can teach you, positively change you and widen your horizons. It is sad, how, only a few can do it… only a few can be moved by it.

For the past few years, TRAVEL has been regarded as a luxury, often associated with leisure, spending, and airconditioned cars and high-end hotels. At least, for most of the known local travel experiences.

One of the reasons why YTRIP* was built was to inform the Filipino on ways to travel cheap, to enable those who “cannot afford to travel” to see opportunities to do so. You just need information, strategy, and practicality. You also need to let go of drama and just let loose.

More important than knowing how to travel cheaply (or at least, reasonably), travelers should be RESPONSIBLE and RESPONSIVE. Backpacking, as a mode of travel, is one of the best ways to fully experience people and places.

Taking off from YTRIP’s earlier learning sessions on backpacking, Pinoy culture, and travel writing/photography – here we present BACKPACKING PILIPINAS as we found a home in R.O.X. in The Fort.  

BACKPACKING PILIPINAS is a series of talks and lectures on backpacking, expeditions, responsible travel,  travel writing and photography – centering on the Philippines - by experts and experienced travelers. R.O.X. is just the perfect place for it – to convene travelers and aspiring backpackers.

It is time to explore Pilipinas, and it begins on November 27, 2008.

*YTRIP is a youth-led organization that promotes sustainable local tourism and Philippine culture.

YTRIP: Year 2

The YTRIP 2nd Anniv Project
Open to the Public/ Free Admission

BACKPACKING PILIPINAS: 7107 Reasons to Explore
27 November | Thursday | 7PM
3F R.O.X. Building, The Fort

Featuring:
David Tajan | Expeditions
Leland Pasion | Backpacking
Cherie McCosker | Responsible Travel

PLUS: YTRIP GA and Sign-Ups!

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This time, YTRIP is no longer just the founder or the family or the friends. It has become a group, a world. A core of people who, in their earnest desire to fulfill their purpose, found a place to grow and make things better for themselves, for others, and for the places they live in. Where they can also create and fulfill their own dreams. …

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It is not just advocacy but education; not just trips, but transformation. …

Because as I begun this path, I did not hope for others to follow – but for them to create their own. I believe, for the most part, they have. And it will continue.

YTRIP celebrates its second year today. Let’s look forward to more November elevens.

[Excerpt from her other side]

*Photo by Bert Bainto (c) 2008 | Rizal Shrine, Calamba, Laguna