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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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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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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 food: Morcon or Rolled Beef

Recipe: Morcon - Rolled Beef

A simple recipe for Philippines style Rolled Beef or Morcon

Philippines Habeeb Salloum

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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MacArthur’s Park, Red Beach, Palo, Leyte, Philippines

Tracking Tacloban’s Treasures (1)

Ask a Pinoy on the street what comes first to his mind whenever Tacloban City is mentioned, and, ...

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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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The last Tribes of Mindanao, Badjao, the Sea Gypsies.

The last Tribes of Mindanao, Badjao, the Sea Gypsies.

Badjao or Bajau means man of the seas, this tribal group is known as the Sea Gypsies becau...

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CKC Jose Gomez Symphony Orchestra at a Manila concert(Photo CKC PR, Calbayog City, Samar)

A Trip To Samar

A soft breezy sunrise rouses me as my ship nears the coast and moors at the docks of Maguino-o, o...

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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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Girl with traditional mat

The Bilaan Tribe of Southern Mindanao

The Bilaan or B`laan are a tribal community of Southern Mindanao, the name of this indigenous gro...

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Rice, much more than food Image by Ronald de Jong

Rice, much more than food.

A Philippine proverb says that if anyone wastes rice or throws it away, his hand will become defo...

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Cebu's Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño is the oldest church in the Philippines built by the Spaniards in 1565

Cebu Paradise, History So Affluent

“Travel + Leisure”, a New York based magazine, has just classified Cebu as one of the best is...

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Corregidor Lighthouse

Corregidor Island: A Legacy of War

Corregidor Island obviously is well-known for its valiant task in the Second World War (a thing t...

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Manobo, river people of Cotabato

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Manobo, river people of Cotabato.

Manobo, the name may came from Mansuba from man (person or people) and suba (river), meani...

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The Last Tribes of Mindanao, The Tausug, People of the Current.

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, The Tausug, People of the Current.

Tausug or Suluk is the name of an Islamized tribal group in the Sulu archipelago, and is t...

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Kenneth Cobonpue, Furniture Designer to Stars

Filipino furniture designer a Hollywood hit

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