For today’s Rizal Day celebration, its not yet too late to get the passports at different tourism offices in provinces and for those who still have places to visit, you still have half a year to complete it. Go and travel to some of the beautiful places in the country included in this heritage trail and get to know more about being Filipino.

Sink your teeth into soft, delectable and fresh buns with creamy yema filling. I think this is better than the original from Camiguin.

Situated at 2,000 feet above sea level in the cool hills of Busay, Cebu City, Tops has been there as far as I can remember. It’s the perfect place to just view the city and surrounding islands of Olango and, even Bohol on a clear day.

The baby turtles were just at the holding pen, about three inches long, 15-20 individuals. Some were sleeping with their front flappers conveniently resting atop the carapace while some biting on a blanched but definitely dead fish floating on the surface.

From a distance, the river looks calm except for a few patches of white, water foam as it hits submerged rocks and boulders. A closer look, however, reveals a fast flowing river, even turbulent at some parts and ripe for a wild and wet adventure that is water tubing in Maitum’s Pangi River system.

Our Southeast Asian neighbors have nothing of this type of archaeological find. We should be extremely proud as Filipinos in discovering the amazing anthropomorphic potteries, which could suggest the backbone of our own culture.

Singapore is a shopper’s haven with the many malls and markets that dot the island country but there are still those that stand out and these are not even found inside malls. Here are five interesting shopping areas outside of malls.

Travel is not all about reaching the destination but making the journey the destination itself!

Maitum, at first look, seems just any provincial town in Mindanao that one just passes by along the way: habal habals, tricycles and VHires go about their daily routines, ordinary houses, large rice fields, old stands of coconuts and a good highway that hastens one’s travel. But then again, its just the surface.

Over the years, I’ve been traveling around this beautiful island, worked, found and lost love and found again. It’s about time to write about the land I’ve always loved, Mindanao.

Taboan Market bai, I said politely to the jeepney conductor while I handed my fare. I was enroute to Cebu’s famous dried fish market where almost every kind of species of fish that can be salted and dried are found.

Yes, I’m traveling and this is my third day of a 13 day trip around both ends, west and east of Mindanao.

I was full of excitement when me and my friend were already inside our respective lower bunks aboard the Philippine National Railways’s (PNR) sleeper coach that will take us back to Manila from Naga City in Camarines Sur.

Maitum is a gem of a municipality in Sarangani, a young province located at the bottom of Mindanao Island. It is a beautiful place with interesting history, culture and sights to offer the traveler.

Administered by the Augustinians, Augustinian Recollects and later on by the Dominicans in the 17th and 18th centuries, Pangasinan has a rich treasure trove of heritage churches built during the Spanish colonial era.

The northern city of Tuguegarao in Cagayan province is not only famous for the adventure, natural and heritage destinations that tourists and travellers come for but, for the first time visitor, one’s curiosity is immediately piqued when almost all eateries, from hole in the wall joints to carinderias and restaurants are offering pansit batil patung (or patong).

Being a coastal province, Bolinao in Pangasinan has its share of beautiful beaches. Patar Beach, a strip of creamy and powdery sand in this municipality is popular with visitors and locals.

The Libingan ng mga Bayani is a national cemetery for military personnel from privates to chiefs of staff. But presidents, vice presidents, chief justices, national artists, scientists and other people of same or accorded of such stature are also interred here.

Necropolis, city of the dead. Cemeteries can be found in every town and city in the Philippines but there are just some places of repose that are above the rest. In terms of architecture and significance, these four, as listed here, are must sees.