The Wandering Savant

As promised, I would now be posting the account of our trip to Ilocos and Cordillera. This is the first part of the said trip. Based on our flight schedule, we had to leave Cebu on February 22nd at around 6:30 in the morning aboard a Cebu Pacific flight to Manila. In Manila, we had to board another flight, this time a Philippine Airlines flight, to Laoag City. Both flights were smooth and stress-free owing to the fair weather condition. It was in Laoag where we had to start the actual sight-seeing. Lucky for us , we found a tricycle driver who offered to tour us around Laoag and Vigan using his friend's van, which we had to rent for Php 3,000.00 (that is P1,000.00 for each of us). ARRIVAL PICTURES                                                                                                                                                                               Laoag International Airport   TRANSPORT NEGOTIATION Not

About a week ago, I, together with two colleagues embarked on arduous journey to explore Ilocos and the Cordillera regions, or at least their main points of interests. Now, I am beset with an enormous task of piecing together the highlights of the said trip. This task is enormous in a sense that I had to keep the balance among several factors to make this piece an interesting read. One such task is to keep this as informative as possible while sparing the readers the boring details of logistics and itinerary. So I decided to just focus on the itinerary alone leaving other details on a separate section. The whole trip, from February 22-27, spanned a total of 6 days. There are a lot of stories to tell and a lot of observations to share. Since discussing all of those places I just one article would be too boring, I intend to post the articles by installments. That’s something to look forward to. Isn’t it? So, here is how it’s going to be divided. February  22 nd 2011: Ilocos

I think I'll be doing myself a great favor if I post these pictures taken during our Dumaguete and Siquijor escapades. There are just so many of them. So here they are.  Day 1 The long but not-so-painful wait at the Cebu South Bus Terminal ...and this one too... we didn't have much pictures when inside the bus enroute to Lilo-an Santander but we have these.... ...just mocking around... ...but prior to that, let me show you this... ...a resort in Lilo-an Santander...the souther part of Cebu boasts of very good beaches.... ...in the "city by the bay"... ...the renowned Rizal Boulevard with people doing their morning walk... we had to stay at the guest house of the university where I used to study... FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY ...yes, that's a mac.. they only use macs... ...inside BALAY SA ALUMNI...that is a framed photo of Vicente Sinco, the founder... ...at the university beside the sea... ...random pics inside Silliman University..