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Mindanao Traffic Throes Image by Ronald de Jong Copyright Reserved

Mindanao Traffic Throes

Traffic conditions in Mindanao are often chaotic and driving does not necessarily mean ...

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Crazy, Crawly, Creepy and Crunchy, Balut.

Crazy, Crawly, Creepy and Crunchy

The Philippine archipelago is famous and notorious for its distinctive side-walk cuisine and the ...

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Sweet, Salty and Sour; but not that Spicy. Tilapia

Sweet, Salty and Sour; but not that Spicy.

The Filipino cuisine is an exotic blend of many different cultural influences from both sides of ...

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Ukay-Ukay is Okay

Ukay-Ukay , it is the Filipino adaptation of a "flea market" and one of those typical f...

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Mindanao, Magic, Medicine and Mystery.

Mindanao, Magic, Medicine and Mystery.

After being brushed off for a great number of years as "superstition" and "fraud&q...

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Tsinelas !

These things are pleasant to wear, affordable, light-weight, functional, comfortable, convenient ...

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General Santos City, The Tuna Capital, fishing banca

General Santos City, The Tuna Capital

The Philippines is a fascinating country that has a great variety of unique travel destinations w...

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Pasalubong

Pasalubong, for Filipinos all over the globe a familiar word for a well-known and well-respected ...

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Destination Mindanao ...at last!!

Destination Mindanao ...at last!!

An estimated 4, 7 million foreigners visited the Philippines in the year 2013 and the expectation...

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Bahay Kubo, Philippines, Mindanao countryside

The Bahay Kubo is one of the most illustrative and recognized icons of the Philippines. Th...

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Philippines, the last tribes in Mindanao

The Maranao Tribe from Lake Lanao

Together with the Illanun and Maguindanao, the Maranao are one of three indigenous Muslim groups ...

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Creative Conveyance, vegetable vendor.

Creative Conveyance

People and goods will always need to get from one location to another, so transportation touches ...

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Midland Mall Mania

Midland Mall Mania

South Cotabato and Sarangani are often named as great places for any shopping extravaganza; these...

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Green & Graphic Getaways, farmer and carabao

Green & Graphic Getaways

Mindanao is truly a travel photographer's paradise with dozens of untapped eco tourist sites and ...

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True Heroes

True Heroes. Text and Images by Marvy Enestoes and Ronald de Jong. Some time ago we met tw...

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Karaoke, Filipino Fun

Karaoke, Filipino Fun

" Sasakyan kita, Sa lahat ng gusto mo, Sasakyan kitaaaaaaa ", a very popular song by Gl...

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Philippines, Mindanao, Young Tboli Girl

The T'boli Tribe of South Cotabato.

More than 40 different ethnic groups can be found in the Philippines. There are 18 tribal groups ...

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Flying with a Filipino touch. Cebu Pacific Airplane at General Santos City Airport

Flying with a Filipino touch.

The Philippines is an exotic archipelago with more than 7000 fascinating, palm fringed islands an...

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The Farm

Southern Comfort

Many local and foreign visitors describes South Cotabato as a "place like no other", an...

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Mind your (table) manners! Image by Ronald de Jong

Mind your (table) manners!

The Philippine hospitality is legendary and uncomplicated; visitors will always be greeted and tr...

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