Travel Photographer Philippines – The 4AM Chronicles

I love bread. Notice I love everything? Anyway, as I was saying/typing/whatever.. I love bread. from French Poilan, to Chinese hopia, Silver roll bread like the one used in siopao to thin or hand-tossed pizza crust, pandesal, and those tig-piso tig-seis Spanish breads you can get off a local panaderia. There’s just something about bread [...]

Just because I love the food here, let me tell you about Herencia. We were looking forward to lunch, or at least I was, coming from the Kapurpurawan rock formations in Burgos, where I tried to get shots of myself pretending to do sand stone surfing or whatever you call it. No, we were’nt really [...]

The guy taking care of the boards were getting the boards ready. We were waiting for everyone to get on the top of the dune for a little briefing. My heart was probably beating fast. Was I afraid? Not really. I’d say I was excited. I lifted one of the boards and saw that the [...]

I was stoked again after having 5 or 6 successful sand boarding runs and a crazy 4×4 ride at the Paoay San Dunes in Ilocos Norte and indeed i was dirty. Full of sand, I couldn’t imagine myself taking a 12-hour bus ride home without taking a shower. It’s good that NPVB and the Ilocos [...]

It was the end of the Lakbay Norte Ilocos Norte Leg for me. Everyone else still had the next day but I had to take a Floridablanca bus back to Manila so I’d have enought time to prepare for my Iloilo-Bacolod trip two days later. I was torn between two choices, leave in the morning [...]