How to get there: Take the bus from Victory Liner Cubao terminal; the fare going to Baguio is P445. If you’ll be coming from the Pasay terminal, the fare is P455. Deluxe buses with lavatories and more comfortable seats cost P715 one-way.
An encounter with the five oldest churches in Batanes leaves one with the feeling that neither storm and winds nor isolation and time could extinguish the flame of faith that lives within the island’s people.
Taoid is “heritage” or “legacy” in Ilokano. And it is the title of the year-long celebration of National Heritage Month...
Fresh from her stint as one of two chefs who did the Apec welcome reception dinner, Margarita Fores has now turned her attention to a 10-day Batanes food promotion in her restaurant at Rockwell, Makati.
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto will bless the newly renovated Cathedral of Sto. Domingo in Basco, Batanes, on March 29, which is also the episcopal silver jubilee of Msgr. Camilo D. Gregorio, bishop prelate of the province.
In 1989, Batanes was a lot harder to visit. Flights got in only from Tuguegarao, Cagayan or Laoag in Ilocos Norte, and even then, you weren’t really sure you could get in—or out. For much of the year, the Philippines’ northernmost province was pretty inaccessible—they don’t call it the “Home of the Winds” for nothing—so people took advantage of a window.
Brave enough to hop on a boat for a three-hour journey on rough seas? This is just the beginning of Don Lejano and DJ Clark’s adventure in the fourth episode of the Drone and Phone special featuring Batanes.
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Batanes, the smallest province in the Philippines, with a population of more than 17,000, is an off-the-track destination for most people.
There are many things not to like about Batanes—lack of good hotels, frequent brownouts, a sporadic cell phone signal or lack of it outside Basco, the capital.
