Bon Odori at the Manila Japanese School
This post is….STALE! 😀 I have perfectly good excuses (yes, plural) but I won’t enumerate them all 😛 Anyway, the 11th Bon Odori Festival was held at the Manila Japanese School on March 6. It is a big event participated in by the local Japanese...
Viva Vigan: Vigan Cathedral (St. Paul Cathedral)
(Continued from the previous stop – Crisologo Museum) After our visit to Crisologo Museum, we decided to take a walk and familiarize ourselves with the vicinity and plan out the next day’s tour. En route to St. Paul Cathedral, we stopped by Plaza Maestro for...
Viva Vigan: Crisologo Museum
For this disgruntled Manila ‘native’, Vigan is just a sight to behold – beautiful old houses, clean streets, majestic churches, idyllic lifestyle. So you can just imagine our excitement to explore the place as soon as we jumped off that bus. Of course we had...
Viva Vigan: A Journey Back in Time
(I will be making a mini-series about our latest trip to Vigan. I’m working on a blogging backlog right now, but I hope this won’t end up like that Bohol trip series — I only ended up writing about ONE place! 😛 See the post...
Long weekend
I will be away starting tomorrow. Boyfie and I will be up north for a bit of couple time. 😉 YAAAAAAY! So excited. Same time last year, we were in Tagaytay and in July, we went to Bohol. We have a list of places in...
久しぶり
ボホールへの旅行 (Blood Compact Site) 先週彼とボホールというフィリピンの島に行きました。久しぶりの旅行です!!マニラからボホールまで飛行機で1時間かかります。天気はすごくよかった! Countryside Tourはボホールの9つの名所を回ります。最初はBlood Compact Siteです。1565年に、レガスピというスペインの探検家はボホールへ行って、Datu Sikatuna(Datuは王子と同じ意味)と友好の条約を制定しました。 レガスピはスペイン人ですから、フィリピン語が全然わかりません。Datu Sikatunaもおなじです。 この条約、どうやって制定したでしょうか?Sandugoです。 レガスピとSikatunaは手首をナイフで切って、血をコップに入れました。コップを交換して、相手の血を飲みました。 Sandugoは二つの言葉から作られました。「San]はIsaの省略、一つということです。「Dugo]は「血」ということ。ですから、Sandugoは「血は一つになる」ということです。 今はもちろん、Sandugoをする人はいないでしょう。でも、歴史はすごく面白い!もっと勉強になりました。 次の名所は。。。あしたにしま~す。^_^(あしたかも。。。)
New7Wonders of Nature
I read about this in The Philippine Travel Blog. Our own Puerto Princesa Subterranean River is competing to be included in the New 7 Wonders of the World. Right now, it is ranked first in Group E: Forests, National Parks & National Reserves. It has finally overtaken...
Freezing in Tagaytay
Schatz and I were finally able to on another vacation together, after a very long time. I think the last vacation we had was in…2006, when we went to Puerto Galera (incidentally, the same time as the Wowowee incident). After that, our schedules got crazy...
Potter Park in Florida!
Now there’s a reason for me to go to the United States…in 2009. According to this MSN article, Universal Studios will open a Harry Potter theme park called the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. JK Rowling is even working with the technical/creative team to make...
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