Why some people shouldn’t go to Batanes
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.
March 15, 2014
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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.
Birthdays always make me think of bucket lists. This is the final year of my fourth decade in life, and the big idea is to come up with a list of 50 things to do before I hit 50.
Taoid is “heritage” or “legacy” in Ilokano. And it is the title of the year-long celebration of National Heritage Month (May) organized by the National Commission for Culture and the
Friends who have visited the churches in Batanes said it has been a fine spiritual and cultural experience. Mimi Casanova Noble of Taal Tours and Travel brought a group in March to Batan and Sabtang Islands, where they visited five churches and two chapels.
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.
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Pacita Abad, the international artist from Batanes, was in Boston with husband Jack Garrity when we came visiting for the summer. But first, Pacita and my wife Noreen, schoolmates at the University of the Philippines, had a lot of catching up to do.
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.
What is so exciting and unique about the art of photography? With brain and hands, photography seizes the moment, captures a fragment of eternity, and preserves it forever. We immortalize beautiful sceneries and memories.
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