For those who fly to Manila from Mindanao and Visayas provinces at midday, try to have a seat beside the window on the right side of the airplane. Why? So you’ll have the chance to make out below the Seven Lakes of San Pablo. 😉 I have seen this lake system many times from above…
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Cafe Arabela: Another Liliw Best Kept Secret
One of our earlier dates, titus & I, was in Arabela’s Café in Liliw, Laguna, with my chaperon/brother nicko hahha. Arabela Café serves pastries, steaks, pizza, cakes & coffee in an intimate setting. Intimate because the café only has several tables, less than 15 tables if I remember right in a real tight space but…
Liliw’s Chef Mau Luto Ni Tatay Sa Bungkol
I feel strongly about words like ‘road less traveled’, ‘discover’, ‘explore’, ‘risk’, ‘spontaneous’. I maybe a true representative of my sign – Sagittarius – as a good friend has remarked. Lol. Be it true or not, it is by following the off the beaten path that I get to experience more of a place, and…
Pagsanjan Falls & Shooting the Rapids
I lived in Laguna for 5 years, one of the great things about my job then (which I am grateful for) was that it took me places. And Pagsanjan with its Shooting The Rapids river adventure ride was one of those job perks I’ve come to enjoy. (Pagsanjan Falls geographically is really ‘Cavinti Falls’ as…
Calamba, The Hero’s Town!
Calamba City is best known as the birth place of the most famous of all Philippine Heroes Dr. Jose Rizal!
Dr Jose Rizal and his dog
Just beside Calamba City’s main church, the St John The Baptist Church, is the birthplace of Jose Rizal, the ancestral house was restored and was converted into the Rizal Shrine and Museum dedicated to the national hero’s life and works. The whole compound has a very spacious ground where a replica of a typical bahay kubo stood together with a sculpture of little Jose and his dog gazing at the house. There is
Liliw, Hidden Treasure Town!
In the outskirts of Laguna you will find the quaint little town of Liliw, it’s popular among filmmakers as number of films being shoot there has risen in the last decade, the latest of which is the Gabby-KC tandem this July 2010. But Liliw is becoming even more popular especially among the ladies, and the reason? It’s tsinelas baby!
Liliw made footwears
Female of all ages will go gaga over the fashionable, affordable, and quality shoes, slippers and sandals that the liliw master shoemakers creates. Guaranteed to make even the most jaded of shoppers race to the last store. Once in Liliw, you can’t miss their