Ilocos Norte & La Union: Northern Exposure
La Union and Ilocos Norte in Region 1 still offers the adventurer, foodie and heritage fanatic old but reliable staples that make these two provinces perfect places to travel this summer.
La Union
The Thunderbird series wrap-up
La Union in the Ilocos Region is one of those provinces that will make you think of what to do and visit. One would think that its all tobacco and garlic and onions and Agoo Basilica. But its more than that.
La Union’s delicious halo-halo de iloko
Interesting (or tacky?) decors doesn’t distract you from having this delicious halo-halo in Halo-Halo de Iloko, up in the city of San Fernando, La Union.
Two interesting temples in La Union
Both are temples, a Catholic church, and the other a Taoist (Chinese) temple. Both are equally interesting not only in terms of architecture but also the devotions done by their respective faithful.
Luna’s sand and pebble gatherers
Looking farther along the stretch of beach, there are several more men and mound. Its really an industry here with the natural products probably making their way to construction sites in the city or beyond.
The costs of progress.
Luna’s lonely sentinel of the sea
What greeted me was disheartening. It has lost its balance, leaning on the sandy shores of Luna’s beach. Broken and probably left with no more tears to weep as the descendants of the ancestors that this structure protected from the Pintados from the Visayas, looking for slaves, left it under the merciless elements.
Monument to a past, the Pindangan ruins
It was a no brainer. The ruins in Pindangan, a sitio in San Fernando City, La Union is old judging from the primitive construction technique of mamposteria, stones, placed one on top of the other.