I got up early this morning to take my long overdue hike at the Boulevard. I haven’t been diligent in keeping fit and quite frankly need to shed...
When in Negros Oriental, don't miss taking a side trip to the nearby island of Sumilon. Brace yourself for an awesome diving adventure and a...
I bet you’re thinking that either the title’s mistyped or the writer’s drunk but indeed, what I’m saying is true – you can really travel to China...
Seven years ago, I was in Tacloban City as part of a secretariat team that conducted a workshop on agribusiness. On our first night, we went to...
The village proper occupies 2.2 hectares, with its nine houses laid out to approximate how an actual mountain village would appear. These houses...
Bukidnon A landlocked Mindanao province bordered by Misamis Oriental, Cagayan de oro, North Cotabato and Davao, Bukidnon is known as the food...
Every country just wouldn’t be complete without a little China town. The little China towns all over the world just show us the influence of...
September last year, a younger cousin I haven’t seen since childhood and who is married to an American, phoned me from the United States saying...
Whenever one travels to the Philippines, the most common destination would have to be Boracay, with its world famous beaches. But if you’re...
Two days later we ourselves crossed over for the fiesta of Ivana, the feast of San Jose el Obrero. It was then when I really felt like I had been...
Later that day we were invited to attend mass. I had envisioned swimming and hiking during the trip and had packed accordingly. We hurriedly...
It seems Batanes is one of those places that beguiles. Beyond the inescapable pride of place Ivatans have for their homeland, there is the...
To complement and further illustrate the message, each station comes with an almost realistic depiction of the period it represents. In station 9,...
The Pugad-Lawin Shrine is a national treasure celebrating the country’s first cry for independence from Spain’s 300-year colonial rule. It stands...
There may be literally a hundred wonderful places to visit in the Philippines – in fact, Pangasinan’s Hundred Islands can already claim a hundred...
When a person tells you that he’s going to the Philippines, the first thing that enters the person’s mind is either the idyllic beaches of Boracay...
More than ninety percent of the population in the Philippines may be fluent in English but just to be sure, you feel that it would be better if...
I went out snorkling today, and the water was almost too rough for me to swim, I went back in to my computer and checked typhoon2000 and weather...
Malaybalay is famous for its Kaamulan Festival, a yearly celebration of the culture and customs of the seven ethnic hilltribes of Bukidnon: the...
Some of the land in Bukidnon is contoured as a means of soil conservation to minimize erosion, while various trees are planted surrounding the...
