Easter Island, Chile
Kach was born in Makati City, Philippines, where her father’s family is based. She and her two other siblings were raised by her mother and grandparents in San Pablo City, Laguna, having grown up in a broken family. She has always been a hard worker and found ways to support herself financially even as early as elementary school. During her high school year, she became the student council president and was the representative of their city for the Gawad Felicisimo T. San Luis Para Sa Namumukod Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna (Search for Outstanding Youth of Laguna). Kach went on to study in the University of the Philippines in Los Baños and graduated with an economics degree in 2009. While in college, she was an active leader in a number of extra-curricular activities such as the U.P. Los Baños Economics Society, where she organized concerts and fundraising events, as well as having arranged one of the biggest car shows in Laguna as a member of U.P. Los Baños Sigma Beta Sorority.
Antarctica
The first time Kach traveled outside the Philippines was a month after her college graduation at twenty years old. She flew to Kuwait to do on-the-job training work at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office. She originally planned to do it only for three months before going back to the Philippines to take up law and pursue her dream of becoming a diplomat. Eventually, she ended up living in Kuwait for the next three years, where she was employed in a dental company before becoming a Quality Assurance Officer and Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer. Kach later changed jobs and assumed the lofty position of “Quality Assurance Supervisor on Occupational Safety and Health Policy-Making” for an internationally-renowned hospital. Kach moved to Erbil, Kurdistan, in Iraq in 2012 to continue working for an oil company. Despite this financial success for a twenty-four-year-old Filipina, she still felt a void in her life. Her family, peers, and colleagues told her she was crazy to waste the opportunities that she had at that time. But Kach followed her heart, and she eventually quit her nine-to-five career to pursue her travel passions. She headed off backpacking to Southeast Asia in 2013, bringing her siblings along so they can experience their first overseas travel.
Turkmenistan
Kach ended up teaching English in Vietnam for seven months. She then flew to India and studied to become a Tantra Yoga teacher and Ayurveda massage therapist. She did this while working in various odd jobs, as a cook, hostel cleaner, and waitress. In late 2014, having embraced a nomadic lifestyle, she began travel blogging on a full-time basis. After four years of adventure traveling followed by two years of sailing the Caribbean, she moved and bought a stone house villa in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, in 2019 to start a new expat life.
Yemen
Since starting her own online travel business, Kach has been self-employed. Through her travel blog, she’s worked with airlines, tourism boards, luxury hotels, big tour operators, start-up companies and sponsors that have helped her travel around the world using her Philippine passport. She bought her first house, mortgage-free, from her travel blogging income. She’s very proud to have been able to bring her mom to different countries every year since 2015 including, joining a Caribbean cruise, a luxury trip to New York, and visiting countries like the United Kingdom, Jordan and Morocco. Kach loves traveling solo which she did when she traveled to 16 African countries then Eastern Europe, and an overland trip all over Central and South Asia.
Afghanistan
Her travel blogging success story has been featured in Forbes, TIME.com, Daily Mail, Business Insider, NYTimes, Huffington Post, and Aljazeera News among others. Her travel blog has been nominated and won various travel blogging awards in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Philippines and South Africa. Kach has been a staple in the speaking circuit to such travel events as the World Tourism Forum in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017, among many others.
North Korea
Always striving to move forward and learn something new, Kach vividly remembers the time she learned how to drive a motorbike in the chaotic city of Hanoi, Vietnam. She’s learned to embrace her fear and do it anyway as she has done with such extreme sports as skydiving, bungee jumping and paragliding despite suffering from acrophobia. She employed the same courage that led her to leave her stable corporate job for an unknown frontier of traveling which she never regretted. She may not have the same luxury and security she had in the corporate life, but she found something more fulfilling — the freedom and inner happiness that she was searching for all her life.
Burkina Faso
Kach aims to travel to every country in the world using only her Philippine passport. The law of attraction is her life’s philosophy as she believes that what happens to her is the result of her attitude. She believes that, only when you try to visualize your dreams, will it be converted to words and actions (encapsulated as your goals), then you will start attracting the very things you wish. This has been working for her as she fittingly expresses in these inspiring words, “So, to my fellow women, Filipinos, and backpackers… yes, you can have the traveling life you want, earn money and be successful at the same time.”
Pakistan