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The City of San Fernando, Pampanga will host the *4th Philippine Towns & Cities Conference: Reflections of the Past, Lessons for the Future* (PTC4) from November 6 to 7, 2009. PTC4, organized annually by the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS), aims to enhance civic engagement with local governments units in order to inform and guide the [...]

With the upcoming Holy Week; these pictures are scenarios in the Philippines every Good Friday of every Year.  People do this kind of penitence to atoll for their sins and to show their belief or love for Christianity or Catholic for that matter.  There are even person crucified in the cross just like a re-enactment [...]

It was an accidental trip to the Nayong Filipino at Clark Expo Center in Pampanga. It was just a cruise inside Clark Air Base until we saw a sign pointing to the direction of Nayong Filipino. At first we thought it was already a bygone place. No cars parked outside, no festivities whatsoever. But still [...]

In Central Philippines, on the island of Panay, is the Vicarate of Miag-ao in Iloilo Province. Its Church of Santo Tomas de Villanueva is an Augustinian mission station built as a squat, massive fortress to protect townsfolk from Muslim invasion. Made of a distinct local yellow-orange sandstone, the fortress-church took ten years to build, beginning [...]

The Ifugao house ‘bale‘ is a small enclosed structure, a one-room affair that serves as living and sleeping room, kitchen and dining room. It is elevated above the ground at about two meters by four posts made of sturdy tree-trunks with roots intact. Four wooden disks equipped at the top of the main posts as [...]

I have mentioned already the coffee of the Kalinga which is already commercialize and called it Kalinga Brew. Now let me tour you to the Kalinga Houses here in the Philippines. There are two shapes of houses in Kalinga, the octagonal house called binayon or finaryon is found in Upper Kalinga, in settlements along the [...]