Food•Travel•Miguel

The lake sans the ice. Equally breathtaking.

Visited Sibonga for the kids’ first-hand learning experience on pottery. They got to see how a beautiful jar/vase is made from scratch. (Miguel, however, was more interested on the cockfight happening in the other shack. Uh-oh.)

Rode a trike to the next town, Carcar. Between two adults (and three kids, who barely ate) we finished one kilo of their famous Lechon. We then decided to walk the calories off by going through the town’s Church, Park, Museum and well-preserved Historic Houses. Carcar is definitely a must-visit for architectural fanatics like me.

Before heading back to the city, we stopped by a snack bar for some coffee. And decided to try a Morcon Burger. And Fries. And Mango Shake.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wildreness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. - John Hope Franklin

Over 2000 years old of ingenuity. Hand-made terraces carved into the mountains of Ifugao, Philippines.

"How do you measure a year in life? Measure in LOVE. "

Hopefully the first of many Chasing Waterfalls series for this year. Hopefully.

Now tell me again.. Where did these 5 lbs come from?

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. - GK Chesterton

Panagsama Beach, Moalboal.

Where we had Thai, Indian, Malaysian and Filipino food for lunch, watched the sunset over cold beers and pizza, slept, woke up and had breakfast and coffee by the sea, swam with three huge sea turtles, enjoyed the beautiful and mysterious underwater creatures (first time to see a beaded sea cucumber), cooled off with burger and fries, mango, kiwi and strawberry milkshakes, swam again right until the first sign of sunset.

Weekends. @ Shangri-la Resort and Spa, Cebu.

Visiting the Bagacay Lighthouse (1904) in Liloan. Trying out the local Halo-Halo and Tinap-anan from Danao. Finally getting my hands on a Sinamay in Carmen after searching high and low (woot!). Enjoying the Binaliw Spring, Bagatayam Falls and our much-needed Borussia coffee stop in Sogod.