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Follow the Green: Anuplig Falls
My free time in Adams was spent trekking to Anuplig Falls. It normally takes one and a half hours to reach the waterfall on foot. We cut the time in half by motorbiking up to Anat. By the time the...
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Tribal Alliance in Adams
The town of Adams is a curious amalgamation of settlers from different tribes, namely Iyapayao and Igorot highlanders and Ilocano lowlanders. I was asked by the One Ilocos Norte mayoral candidate, my...
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Conjugal Leadership
Melanie and Alfredo Valdez Chevylle and Michael Fariñas The stark parallelism of the highly anticipated official election returns in the mallified town of San Nicolas and city of Laoag, both intense...
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Benny Arce’s Footprint in the Sands of Ilocos Norte
Before the rainy season arrived, the LEAD Movement was blessed with the opportunity to tell their humble story of pioneering the Ilocos Norte tourism mainstay in the Philippines — sandboarding and...
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La Virgen Milagrosa and Nana Leonila Arzadon of Badoc
I do believe in miracles. I also believe in goodness, humaneness, perseverance and above all, faith. Today, I paid La Virgen Milagrosa a visit. I had to ask a local where I could see the miraculous...
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Picturesque Playa Tropical
“Do not look at the world through your head; look at it through your heart.” – Ketut Liyer Though I’ve never been to Bali, it has left an indelible imprint in my mind. Beyond its gorgeous beaches and...
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Sarrat Bridge Rappel In the Year of the Snake
It didn’t seem like six years had gone since Kaagapay rappelled from a chopper. The expensive chopper rappel was our prize for faithfully completing the 3-week search and rescue training from the...
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That others may live
Life is full of uncertainties. The one thing sure, there are people who do “making people live” a career. Volunteerism on the other hand changes an ordinary life into something more meaningful… NO IFS...
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Life is not a picnic
No search and rescue training is complete without soaking up the scorching sun. A refamiliarization with rubber boat operation was the final exercise spent outdoors for the proficiency training. In a...
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The Virtual Ilocos Norte Wedding Scrapbook
In celebration of the wedding month of June, the who’s who in Ilocos Norte’s wedding biz were assembled by Dennis Raquiza of Events and Ambiance by Denize, in cooperation with Robinsons Ilocos, for a...
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Defining the role of a tour guide in the 4th National Tour Guides Convention...
Together with other five Philippine EcoGuides Association (PEGA) members, I participated in the recently concluded 4th National Tour Guides Convention held in Ilocos Norte. Headed by President Edwin...
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Piddig and the Basi Revolt
Situated on the western foot of the Cordilleras, right beside Sarrat, is the town of Piddig (originally named Pidipid which means hilly). It is agriculture that sustains Piddig like most towns in...
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My state of mind: Yearning for the beach
As Ericke says, home is where the waves are. And so is unspoilt beaches. I am reminiscing the blithe times I’ve had with the family at the beaches we frequent. Click here to see my other beach posts....
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Snow Cone Under the Ilocos Sun!
Hello, my dear readers! It’s been a hot, hot two days now. I was culinary touring a new food show cutely titled Food Prints, which is yet going to air for the first time on the Lifestyle Channel with...
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The Lifestyle Network’s FoodPrints with Sandy Daza traces the Ilocos Norte...
Ilocos Norte welcomes celebrity chef/restaurateur/gourmand Sandy Daza, host of FoodPrints, a crisp lifestyle show that opens on the Lifestyle Network, the 7th of September. So mark that in your...
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Strictly Family Affair
The 4th of August is habitually random. Soon after digesting the sharpness of The Wolverine, the family headed to Tayamen’s. Reny can live on exotic stuff like unskinned croakers from Piddig...
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Sadiay Dayo ti Batac
The cultural aspect of a place one visits is as fascinating as the sights and food. I really don’t get it when the pa-sosyals look for what else but puro kasosyalan. In my eyes, nothing compares to...
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Batac Miki at Jannete’s Place on a Rainy Sunday Evening
A soothing and filling miki is exactly the soul soup on a sleepy Sunday night. Went back to Jannete’s Place, located among the merienda stalls facing the Batac Riverside Empanadahan after making that...
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Meeting the Ilocos Dragon Lady’s Mimie
Through all the four years I’ve been blogging about anything under the inspiring sun up north, special connections with people of all walks of life have been formed. I first wrote about new age farmer...
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Wabi Sabi Tea Café now brewing in Laoag
The one week old tea place right within Laoag’s U-Belt conjures up the same Japanese wabi sabi aesthetic sense embracing simplicity, quietness, transience and change it was inspirited of. The focal...
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