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79 year-old Filipina Travels to All Countries in the World
On November 9, 2023, 79 year-old Luisa Yu landed in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia is Luisa’s 193rd and final United Nations recognized country, making her the second Filipina to visit all countries in the world.
Mama Luisa or Tita Luisa, is well known in the travel community. She’s not your average traveler. At 77, she coolly went tandem skydiving over The Palm in Dubai. It comes as no surprise that she was awarded Most Adventurous Explorer by the Philippine Global Explorers (PGE) as well as Most Positive Traveler by NomadMania in 2022.
Luisa’s first trip was at the age of 23 to the United States where she studied. She first started traveling within the United States, and later excitedly went outside of the country, thus starting her travel diaries. She quit her nursing job in Miami because the schedule limited her travels. She then learned about investing in properties and started investing as a source of livelihood.
While traveling, Luisa is particularly fond of visiting tribes and experiencing the culture first hand with its people.
According to Luisa, she met some travelers from Serbia and Croatia who later on became friends and kept in touch and encouraged her to make Serbia her final country. These friends celebrated her feat with her by welcoming her in Belgrade.
Luisa says that she is happy finishing her goal of visiting 193 countries. It was not easy, but she made it. If she has any advice to young travelers, it is to save money and work hard and to believe that anybody can do it.
Punch has gone viral again after older monkeys comforted him following an accidental fall into a pond at the zoo.
Caretakers later confirmed that he had fully recovered, eating well, playing with peers, and running around energetically as if nothing had happened.
Back in 2016, Park Geon Roung was one of the child actors who starred in the Baby Shark Dance video, which went on to become the most viewed YouTube video of all time.
He was just a kid then, and now at 17, he is showing the world just how beautifully time flies.
Geon Roung never stepped away from the spotlight. Since 2019, he has been part of Play With Me Club, a South Korean co-ed kids group, keeping his place in showbiz.
Fans who rediscovered him recently were stunned, with many saying he now looks just like a K-pop idol.
The ‘Baby Shark’ video was uploaded to YouTube in June 2016 by Pinkfong, a South Korean education brand.
It quickly became a staple in nursery schools and a go-to distraction for parents of toddlers worldwide, turning into one of the most recognizable children’s songs of its generation.
For many who grew up watching that video on repeat, seeing Geon Roung at 17 is a quiet reminder of how fast kids grow up.
One day they are dancing to baby shark, and before you know it, they are teenagers the internet is falling in love with.
BLACKPINK’s Lisa is going viral after visiting Punch, the baby Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan.
She posted the moment on her Instagram Story, showing full love to the beloved viral monkey. The photos spread across social media almost immediately.
What made the visit even more special was what Lisa brought with her.
She carried an orangutan plush toy identical to the one Punch is famous for clutching, the same toy that once comforted a baby monkey rejected by his mother and turned him into a global sensation.
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