Mt. Mayon shows perfect form from Cagsawa Ruins

Even as we viewed her from the ruins of Cagsawa, a town she buried in the early 19th century, nothing reminded us more of Mt. Mayon’s destructive wrath than the story shared by a 12-year-old boy who lost his grandmother and two aunts during the volcano’s 48th eruption in 2006.

While she stands – ageless, tall, and unmoving, we are made aware that her serenity is sometimes broken by terrible and violent fits of temper.

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The best time to take a picture of Mayon Volcano is early morning or late afternoon when the clouds covering its cone disperse.

The boy, selling bitter chocolate rounds made from local cacao beans, would have been four in 2006 and too young to remember the lahar from Mt. Mayon that killed many and devastated communities along its path.
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April 21, 2014 Marlen Limpag Permalink Leave a response Places, Rewards, Albay, belfry, Cagsawa Church, Cagsawa Ruins, Mayon Volcano, perfect cone

Travel Bee is Dapitan City’s heritage inn

This heritage inn called Travel Bee is one of the newer accommodation facilities in Dapitan City. It has big and clean rooms that come at affordable rates.

Its claim to heritage arises from its being built upon the ancestral home of the Sagario clan.

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Travel Been calls itself a heritage inn in Dagupan City.

An old picture of the structure displayed on the lobby wall shows it to be of a typical balay na bato design common among the affluent class during Spanish colonial times. The living quarters were limited to the second level while the ground floor served as bodega or warehouse.

What’s left of the Sagario ancestral house are the tugas (hardwood) posts that have been retained during its transformation into the Travel Bee Heritage Inn.
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April 11, 2014 Marlen Limpag Permalink Leave a response Places, Rewards, Dagupan City, Heritage Inn, Maria Clara, Mi Retiro, Sagario Ancestral House, Travel Bee

Baguio trips and La Trinidad strawberries

My favorite experience in our Baguio travels happened not in this city we call the Philippine summer capital but in an adjacent town of Benguet.

If you are familiar with these places, then you’ve probably realized I’m taking about the strawberry picking that tourists can do at a farm in La Trinidad.

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Anywhere you go in Baguio, you get fabulous views. This one is from the Dominican Hill where the Diplomat Hotel now stands abandoned and in ruins.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. Baguio was a heady experience. The cool climate was a novelty for an island girl like me. At any spot in this plateau within Benguet, you get a view. It may be of rows and rows of houses on the hillsides, a forest of pines, the city and surrounding countryside, or the Cordillera mountain range.

Though the winding way up makes me dizzy, I prefer traveling during the daytime along Kennon Road because I can clearly make out the towering mountains and the sheer drops.

I went to all the touristy places in Baguio.
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April 3, 2014 Marlen Limpag Permalink Leave a response Places, Projects, Rewards, Baguio City, BenCab Museum, Botanical Garden, Camp John Hay, Diplomat Hotel, Dominican Hill, Ibay's, La Trinidad, Lourdes Grotto, Mines View Park, Pilak, PMA, strawberry picking, Tam-awan Village, Wright Park
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