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Ilocos Adventure Pt3: Stepping Back in Time in Vigan

Bino — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:54:58 +0000

If there ever was a much awaited leg in my trip, this had to be it. For the longest time, I had wanted to visit Vigan – the Philippines’ own UNESCO World Heritage town. Vigan was a name that had captured my imagination. Like a town jumping out from the pages of a history book,...

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Ilocos Adventure Pt2: From Laoag to Pagudpud

Bino — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:37:56 +0000

The second leg of my Ilocos trip took me from Laoag up to the the northernmost tip of the island of Luzon, stopping by the many interesting places in between. I had a different mindset about this leg. There is a strange and indescribable curiosity that one gets when going to a land’s end, as...

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Ilocos Adventure Pt1: Laoag & Surrounds

Bino — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:41:07 +0000

One of the places I’d always wanted to visit in the Philippines was the Ilocos Region. Impressive churches, colonial towns, the legacy of what is undoubtedly the country’s most “famous” president and the hometown of many national heroes; it has what is probably the most concentrated number of heritage architecture in the country. Over the...

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