Philippines - No Place like Home.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY,  PHILIPPINES!

JUNE 12

368 YEARS UNDER SPAIN

58 YEARS UNDER UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH

68 YEARS  FREE PHILIPPINES

YEAR 2015   NO LONGER THE SICK MAN OF ASIA

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The best sausage (longgonisa) in the world

Lechon kawali  - crispy and tasty!!

Filipinos are happy people

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A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY,  A LITTLE BIT METROPOLITAN.   A home to 120 million people?!!!

Manila

Manila Central Post Office - Designed by Juan M. Arellano.  It was built in neoclassical architecture in 1926.  It was severely damaged in World War II and rebuilt in 1946 preserving most of its original design.  This is the place to pick up local mails and stuffs from the United States sent by relatives.

Fort Bonifacio  Global City   For some reason, my tatay was more impressed with these buildings than buildings in Chicago and Manhattan.

Eastwood City

Cultural Center

Ayala Triangle  Symphony of Lights  Makati

Fantasy World   Lemery  Batangas

Iloilo International Hotel (circa 1920s - 1930s?)

Plazuela Iloilo  Iloilo City

Actor Lucas Neff thinks Philippines is an untapped spot.  He is best known to television viewers as Jimmy Chance, the young dad on the FOX series "Raising Hope."  In an interview, he said, "The Philippines are gorgeous.  Heartbreaking and poverty-stricken in places.  But you'll see true untouched virgin islands, and the people are lovely.  Nothing like sea urchins fresh from the ocean."

Recycled Blog Page   5/22/14

Panaon Island  Southern Leyte

Misibis Bay   Albay

Alemet  Ifugao  Mountain Province

Rena Point   Agno  Pangasinan

Marian Orchard   Batangas

Cloud 9  Siargao

Awao Waterfalls  Monkayo  Compostela Valley

Puting Balas  Pagadian City  Zamboanga del Sur

Tubbataha Reefs National Park  Sulu Sea   I wonder if the United States ever paid the Philippines for destroying the reefs, a World Heritage site

January 3, 2014  Update 

El Nido

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Published  5/25/10  altgroup  multiply
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