Tag: philippines
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The Storytellers
Last weekend, I joined a photowalk here in Davao City as part of the annual Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk. It’s been a while since i actually joined one. A while being about 5 years (I think). Anyway, I felt like a fish out of the water since I haven’t been on photowalks and I, honestly,…
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Castaway 3
Earlier this month, April and I joined Travis Monsod and his wife, Kat for a weekend roadtrip to Clark, Pampanga. Castaway Music Festival is a yearly music fest and is a brainchild of boss Louie Lizardo. Much thanks and love to boss Louie for the warm welcome for me and my girlfriend, April. Back to…
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Roadtrip along the East
A long weekend was coming up because of the Chinese New Year so we rushed to do a road trip. We’ve been to Mati City so many times already so we thought we’d go further up the road to Manay. We called ate Jojie and got her to come with us because she’s from there.…
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South Batan, Batanes
Day 3. Batanes. Final tour day in Batanes and we’re headed towards the southern part of Batan Island. Highlight of the tour would be Honesty Cafe. What you have heard about this cafe is all true. Nobody is there to watch over everybody. Nobody is there to accept payment of what you buy. It’s all…
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Sabtang, Batanes
Day 2. Batanes. This time though we’re headed off to another island – Sabtang. Sabtang is a 30- to 45-minute ride on the faluwa, the traditional Ivatan boat. It’s a big boat. Wide. It’s front end slopes towards the sky as if in constant salutation. It’s probably because it needs to break the waves it…
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North Batan, Batanes
Batanes. I used to only dream of seeing this unspoilt frontier. Unspoilt because I’ve never seen a mall or a Starbucks shop in any of the photos I’ve seen online. Frontier because, although there are flights going there on a regular basis, it’s still far enough to disconnect you from the rest. My chance came…