Seair InFlight: 5 Days in Cebu, Part 1
If you love the beach life and the convenience of the city, this island in the south is for you, says Andrea Pasion.
WHY GO NOW. Cebu City is Manila without the mayhem, offering the conveniences of city living with its upscale shops and restaurants, and the joys of beach life, with many resorts...
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Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Forest: So near yet seems a world away
Banaue may seem to be far removed from the lowlands but it isn't too far from the clutches of development. While there's no mall (thankfully), education, technology and religion have profoundly changed the Ifugao's way of life.For one, a lot of people we met were mostly Christians, even the ones in...
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Pampanga Giant Lantern Festival 2009: Celebrating 100 years of Parol Making
Ours are bigger than yours. The rich plains of Pampanga and their abundant harvests point to the traditional illustriousness of this province. Pampanga seems to thrive on bigness -- from the sinful richness of its food offerings to the expansiveness of its old ancestral homes. The same can be said...
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Banaue: Behold the amazing terraces
You've seen one set of rice terraces, you've seen them all, right? Not quite. When you come face to face with what we Pinoys fondly call "the eighth wonder of the world", it's not easy to be blase. The terraces, especially the ones in Banaue, are simply breathtaking to behold. One can't help but begin...
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Batad’s Tappia Falls: A walk through the terraces and thru time
Paddies point. Seeing the rice terraces even from afar, one can't help but be overcome by the compulsion to step onto the paddies and tread the rice fields our Ifugao ancestors walked on millenia ago. Considering the ephemeral quality of most of mankind's architectural creations, you can't help but...
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Banaue: of cold climes and warm people
It seems foolhardy to go somewhere very cold when I was having a full-blown case of cough and colds. But the opportunity to smell the fresh mountain air and the compulsion to go out of town even for just a few days were simply overwhelming. So despite my feverish state, I found myself on an Autobus...
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Taal Town: Details of a Colonial Past
Taal Town used to be the capital of Batangas until it was moved to Batangas City. The name itself means "indigenous" and why it is so carries an interesting back story.
According to wikipedia, the descendants of Bornean settlers in Panay spread out in two groups, towards the north in Laguna de Bay and...
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Taal Town Villavicencio Heritage House: Luck guides us in
We had a leisurely lunch of tawilis (fresh water sardine) and Bulalo (bone marrow soup) at Taal Bistro and wandered the streets of the town looking, marvelling and ooh'ing and ahh'ing at the old houses, some in a sad state of disrepair, others slowly giving way to the elements. While walking along...
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