On my Holy Week escapade to Ilocandia, I got a chance to visit some of the popular tourist spots of Ilocos, including those on its northernmost coast. The three northernmost coastal towns of Ilocos Norte …
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A Note Before We Sail
Two-and-a-half years of being a scuba diver, with close to a hundred dive count across the Philippines and here I am now in the country’s last frontier, aboard a ferry that will take us to …
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I prefer traveling alone. Not everyone may believe it, but some of my closest friends would agree, that I am really shy and loner. For a not so sociable person like me, my introvert side …
Continue readingDambana ng Kagitingan (Shrine of Valor)
In 1966, a shrine was commissioned to be built on the summit of Mt. Samat to commemorate the heroic Filipino and American soldiers in Bataan who fought the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942, in what …
Continue readingAgutayan Island, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental
Off the coast of Jasaan, Misamis Oriental is a small island, virtually a sandbar, surrounded by green waters that is rich with marine life – the Agutayan Island. It is located in Macajalar Bay, five …
Continue readingSeizing Tubbataha Dream
My very good friend and dive buddy Ate Claudia Artazo shares how our Tubbataha Dream started, deferred and will finally come to reality. With less than a month to go, our road to Tubbataha is …
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