Calamba is a peaceful, moderately large city in Laguna, a province in the southern part of Manila which is famous for being the birthplace of our national hero. When newcomers reach the town proper, this giant earthen pot, sitting atop a cave-like...

Almost midway from Silay City to Bacolod, is a secret kept for over 50 years. In a clearing in the middle of a wide sugarcane plantation stands the remains of the old mansion of the sugar baron Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson. It was abandoned after the...

While enjoying my breakfast of adobong baboy and hot beef soup in Mam and Sir Diner located along the high way in Silay City, I noticed that most of the people around me were mestizas and mestizos so the curiouser I got about the history, not only of...

Bacolod is the City of Smiles and a place that I would always associate with sugarcane (I did see oceans of them) and the famous Maskarra festival. Incidentally, it is the Maskarra month so the city is probably experiencing a shortage in hotel rooms...