Dear Backpacking Pilipinas friends, Let me greet you all a very happy 2015! May this new year bring you peace, happiness, and blessin...

Growing up in a small, remote village in Catanduanes made me appreciate the value of travel through books and dreams.  I remember leaf...

At 4:40 a.m. on  November 8, 2013,  the strongest recorded typhoon to have made landfall hit the shores of Guiuan, Eastern Samar.  Th...

Abra is landlocked province and is bordered by the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Apayao, Mountain Province, and Kalin...

The quiet town of Panay is home to several national cultural treasures —the Santa Monica Parish Church (commonly known as Panay ...

We didn't have a television set at home until I was 10 years old. When our first set of   colored TV landed a space in our...

Haring Ibon, Agila, Monkey-eating eagle, Banog. These are some of the names we call our national bird, the great and mighty Philip...