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Photo Friday: Carigara

Photo Friday: Carigara

Carigara is a large town in the north of the island Leyte, in the Visayas region in the Philippines. Today, Photo Friday, I show you five photos that I took in Carigara. From top to bottom: The port of Carigara, food stalls on the Boulevard, a basketball court, a...
Photo Friday: Rafael Farm

Photo Friday: Rafael Farm

Rafael Farm is a park (or landscaped garden) with a restaurant and several function rooms. It is a popular location for photo shoots, e.g. for weddings or prenuptials. Rafael Farm is in the town Babatngon, province Leyte, not far from Tacloban City, in the...
Photo Friday: Tacloban City

Photo Friday: Tacloban City

We have visited the Philippines three times in the last five years, and will go again later this year. Our base is always Tacloban City, on the island Leyte, in the Visayas. Below I share five photos from Tacloban City.
Three resorts

Three resorts

It’s a long way from our base in Tacloban City to the church in Sulangan. When we visited Sulangan, we started our trip at 4am, to be in time for mass, and even though we had breakfast and snacks in the car, we felt quite hungry after the mass. So when we passed...
Balangiga

Balangiga

A historic site On our way back from Sulangan to our base in Tacloban City, we made a small detour to visit Balangiga, a small town in the south of Samar. Balangiga was the location of a guerilla attack in 1901, during the Philippine-American war, when almost fifty...