5 ways to feel the Christmas magic with your loved ones
WHEN you start
seeing buildings decorated in fairy lights and beautiful Christmas accessories,
you know that the holidays are here! Truly, the Christmas season is the...
The top 10 designers of Iloilo Designers Week
Text by Sean Rafio, photos by Sir
Paul Frederick Chiongson
ILOILO Designers Week – the biggest annual
fashion event in Iloilo, and it did not disappoint. The...
The immaculate conception of Mary
DECEMBER 8 is the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception, a celebration among believers of the Catholic Church in
honor of the Virgin Mary.
The reason behind...
Eat like a local! You can’t leave Iloilo without trying these delectable local delicacies
BLESSED with a rich culinary history
and the fertile resources of both its land and sea, Iloilo has grown to become
a burgeoning culinary haven –...
Fall in love with Iloilo: Myriad sights to enchant any traveler
IT’S no easy task to take into account how multifaceted
Iloilo Province is, much more whittle down a list of just ten or so must-visit
tourist...
ILOILOSTRADO: The city’s manifold old-world charms
VIBRANT Iloilo has been a cosmopolitan city and
multicultural enclave since the turn of the last century, first catapulted into
economic dominance after its port was...
The lamayo: Sea, salt, sun, sinamak
THE LAMAYO
is fish, usually freshly-caught, slit lengthwise/butterfly-ed, salted and sun
dried for half a day. Sun drying is done
partially to retain the juiciness of the...
‘Paskwa sa Panai’ Park Inn by Radisson Iloilo’s first Yuletide season celebration
PARK Inn by Radisson Iloilo ushers its
first Yuletide season celebration with the theme “Paskwa sa Panai.” The concept focuses on Iloilo City’s
naturally colorful and...
Old houses and their spirits
WHEN I was
taking guests around one huge ancestral house in Negros, I told a lady guest
that I have been in this 1980’s mansion several...
Boracay: Sunrise to sunset
IN BORACAY no two
sunsets are alike, or so locals claim.
Since the tropical
paradise first became a popular beach destination in the 1970s, Boracay’s
dazzling sunsets have...