Philippine festivals or fiestas are among the most colorful in the world! I recently got to read the book "A Year of Festivals: A Gui...

Visita iglesia to our Philippine churches has been a part of our lives as Catholic Filipinos. Every Holy Thursday, we visit seven churches,...

Here is a list of my favorite day-trip destinations near Metro Manila. With summer just around the corner, it's time to plan your trips!...

Avilon Zoo is the best zoo within the vicinity of Metro Manila. At 7.5 hectares, it's also the largest in the country. As Manila Zoo c...

After lunch, we visited the Nemiranda Art House which houses the Angono School of Arts . Of all the galleries we visited today, this is the...

As part of Havila's tour of the Angono area, we visited the Balaw-Balaw Folk Art Museum of the late Perdigon Vocalan for lunch . It...

Angono, Rizal is indeed the Art Capital of the Philippines . It's actually the center of an artists haven which includes the neighborin...

As Holy Thursday draws near, Filipinos are planning their annual visita iglesia. I've always been asked what are some of the best herita...

Aside from being one of the most solemn religious events in the Philippines, Holy Week or Mahal na Araw is a colorful display of Philippin...

This afternoon, we visited three waterfalls in Rizal. This was a spur of the moment trip which my Pinoy Mountaineer partner Gideon Lasco ha...

After our shooting the rapids in Pagsanjan  with my guest from China, I decided to complete the Laguna de Bay loop with a visita iglesia ....

From Nemiranda, we were able to ask for directions to the petroglyphs. We were on the right track since the Angono Petroglyphs are inside...

Since Angono was small anyway, we decided to try our luck and drove towards the hills since that would be the best place to look for them. W...

Today, I finally got to visit the town of Angono, Rizal which is known as the Art Capital of the Philippines and the hometown of two natio...