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The Elders and Natives of Banaue Of course, one’s trip to the Mountain Province will not be complete without a photo of our dear natives. I also managed to make the most of that time by talking to a group of elderly Ifugao Natives. Some of the questions I asked include where they live [...]
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.We went through many viewpoints and all of them were really jaw-dropping ! Majestic indeed. The following post-card type photos will attest that our long and slightly treacherous travel along the Mountain Province is so so worth it.
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Banaue hotel lobby We arrived safely before dark at the Banaue Hotel. I was pleasantly surprised to see a Welcome sign with my name actually printed on their billboard. How thoughtful of them! There was parking immediately in front of the hotel. Check-In went smoothly and we got the Deluxe Rooms with a view – [...]
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Deciding Where to Go and Booking Hotels I’ve always dreamed of seeing the Ifugao Rice Terraces and going beyond Baguio even as a child. I can’t blame my parents for forgoing any trip there because it was really not very easy to get to 10-20 years ago. It was only the last 5 years that [...]
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Here are some photos taken this morning from our room. This is just a preview. Complete Blog post coming soon !!
For the past few weeks I was searching for a nice getaway for my birthday. It was a Sunday when I bought a Manila Bulletin newspaper and there it was the advertisement for a promotional fare from Cebu Pacific Air to Osaka. That made the decision easier and so I booked the ticket through [...]
I just received a letter recently from a Filipino-American reader who was asking about my opinion of Amsterdam, and maybe Netherlands in general. The letter came at a very nice time. I would like to share most of what I said in my e-mail. This is mostly straight from my heart. It may not sound [...]
Check out the following gallery from my recent trip to Germany. The places we visited were: Marburg, Fritzlar, Loreley Rock, and Cologne. The Upper Middle Rhine Valley which is somewhere between Frankfurt and Cologne is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thea area where we visited is full of beautiful scenery, fairy tale villages, castles, good [...]
I would like to make a confession related to my previous post Driving in the Netherlands: the photo I used was not taken here but in the US. I’m sorry but at that time I wanted to show something nice about driving like sunny skies and wide roads and I couldn’t find one good photo [...]
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I am the person you would least expect to talk about sports. I don’t follow any sport at all not even when I was in the U.S. In the US, they have the Superbowl every January but this is nothing compared to here where emotion run high because it is not just states competing here [...]
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