If you’re in Manila or Cebu this Holy Week, check out these downloadable PDF guides for use during the visita iglesia. Each showcases all the existing Spanish colonial era churches with photos, short history and printable maps. Manila is featured with its 8 churches while Cebu, 28.

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The Ilocos Norte Sand Dune is one of the best places to go for a wild 4×4 offroad adventure with its wide expanse of sand dunes that stretches for kilometers before bordered by the sea. Of all the places we’ve visited in our Lakbay Norte tour, this was the best experience.

Northern Exposure is my second contribution for the Destination Philippines travel feature in the Filipino – Canadian magazine, Living Today for March 2010 issue. Here, I’ve written about San Juan surfing in La Union and on Ilocos Norte like the sand dunes, food and Paoay Church which we visited last January.

This is my first article for the Filipino – Canadian magazine, Living Today, co-written with Yul Baritugo that focuses on the different sights and experiences in Cebu. Destination Philippines will be a regular feature in this publication which will be my contribution.

Ilocos Norte is just more than churches, gigantic wind turbines and empanada. At it’s western coastline, a desert like landscape awaits the traveler who is bold enough to go to this out of the way geographic wonder. But once you get face to face with the Ilocos Norte Sand Dunes as it unfolds before you, just prepare to be bowled over.