Tag: #Destination Art
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Lingayen: Heart Of Urduja country
DESTINATION: ART — Enjoy the land of beaches and bagoong
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Legazpi City: More than just Mt. Mayon
There is a lot of history and culture to be experienced in Legazpi City.
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Bohol: A well-rounded cultural destination
The story of Bohol has romance, myths and legends, blood and gore, triumphs and defeats.
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Bulakan with a K
This is a town that gave its name to an entire province in the same way that the municipalities of Cavite and Batangas became the names of their respective provinces.
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There’s more to Capiz than its famous shell
The luster of Capiz shells is reflected in the way the native Capiznon would readily greet his neighbors or engage in casual banter with ordinary folks such as peddlers, hawkers, and tricycle drivers.
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Baguio: Blooming of a creative city
There’s something new and exciting that is blooming in Baguio. It is taking on a new moniker as the 'creative city.'
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Bacolod City: Civilization gone with the wind
When people speak of Bacolod, my mind conjures images of the old pre-civil war South in America. Like America’s old south, old Bacolod used to be the home of aristocratic hacienderos with vast sugar plantations, employing thousands of peasants to work in sugar plantations and azucareras.
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Antique: A destination less traveled
I was also delighted to discover that Antique did not get its name from the word antique, meaning old or vintage, but rather from Hantík-hantik, the local name for the large black ants found on the island. It used to be spelled Hantique with a French twang and silent H by Spanish chroniclers. In the Kinaray-a dialect, it is pronounced as “Antique” (än-ti-ké).