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Baguio City will again be flocked by tourists, foreign or local, for the annual Panagbenga Festival that celebrates the blossoming of flowers held every February. It is a month-long colorful celebration and one of the most anticipated festivals in the north. The highlight of the festival happens during the last weekend of February featuring a…
Misadventures are part of traveling that sometimes lead to a better and more memorable experience on the road. I have already encountered several mishaps during my trips: heavy rain poured during a trek, waited for two hours for a bus that didn’t arrive, searching for a place to stay at 8 in the evening and…
So I’ve already seen the world famous Batad amphitheater-like terraces and dabbled my feet on the freezing waters cascading from Tappiya Falls. I am now ready to shout, “I CONQUERED BA..,” but wait, I realized that I’m still in Batad Village and I need to go back to Batad Saddle first before I can officially…
Senator assassinated at the airport. Snap Elections. End of Marcos regime. Dominance of yellow as a political color. Democracy given to the Filipino people. These are only the things I know related to the Aquino family (aside from the show business issues of the youngest Aquino) but I was able to know more about the…
We searched for the house that we usually see on the internet, but couldn’t locate it. We asked random folks we met on the streets of Silay City where to find the most visited ancestral house in the city. After making some left and right turns, I got a glimpse of the familiar structure a…
This trip was originally scheduled for 9 straight days from the province of Iloilo going south to Siquijor. Since I am a corporate slave and I needed to report on work, the planned leaves weren’t approved and ended up booking a Bacolod-Manila seat sale midway of the intended trip. I left home on a rainy…
When I visited Vigan a year ago, I wasn’t that wowed by the ancestral houses flanked on Calle Crisologo maybe because I grew up having my grandma’s house just adjacent to our home. However, a different feeling tickled me when I had a short walking tour around the streets of Silay City where heritage houses…