Luzon Region
"Where the Philippines begins, and rarely stops, surprising you."
Articles
Baguio City: What the Summer Capital of the Philippines Keeps Hidden in Plain Sight
In the late 1970s, I walked through Camp John Hay not as a tourist. I was U.S. military, there on rest and recreation leave, and the facility had been built specifically for people like me. Pine trees, organized pathways, and ...
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The Banaue Rice Terraces: What Two Thousand Years Actually Looks Like
The first view of the Banaue Rice Terraces from the main viewpoint does something unexpected. It makes the scale incomprehensible. You know they are large. You read that they cover more than 10,000 square kilometers in Ifugao Province. Those numbers ...
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Vigan City: The Colonial Streets, the Burnay Pottery, and the Food That Survived
Vigan City survived the Second World War for a reason that is easy to overlook when you are standing on Calle Crisologo taking photographs. General Yamashita withdrew his forces from the city without fighting for it. His decision, whether strategic ...
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