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Everytime I hear Batanes, I always imagine myself sitting on the ridge of a rolling hill with the cool breeze from the ocean shattering on me. But when I browse online for places to visit in the northernmost province of the Philippines, a great structure on a hill overlooking the east side of Batan Island…
This is the second part of my post on my visit to the northernmost inhabited island of the Philippines, Itbayat Island. For the first part, click here. Our dream and eagerness to visit the island-municipality of Itbayat, Batanes, together with the cooperation of the weather, was realized. Itbayat can be reached by means of sea…
Day before our trip to Itbayat Island, transports bound to the island-municipality of Batanes were all canceled due to a gale warning issued by PAG-ASA. On that night, strong winds smashing the trees and houses can be heard as well as the sound of crashing waves on the shorelines of Basco. Staff of the transport…
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…
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…
When 2013 entered, I created a post and highlighted some plans to work on for the rest of the year. One of the things listed is to visit at least 20 provinces of the Philippines. Slowly but surely, I tried to book seat sales, considered the routes of my trips and tagged friends to join…