The TravelWhore
It all began when I got a pre-owned film camera as a gift from a distant relative back in 1996. I stared taking photos of almost anything that I find interesting and on each photograph, I always write notes at the back of the print and make it ala post card or I just simply post it in a photo album.
Everything have changed now, We now have what we call Travel Blogs (Web Log) where we can share our travel experiences. Traveling for me is the highest form of learning, I love discovering each destinations culture and heritage, arts and crafts, language, food and its lovely people.
Let me share to you the joy of traveling one step at a time. ....read more
Posted by
melo in Thursday, September 10th 2009
Do we really have white Christmas in the Philippines? Forget about the snow, Winter in Batanes is just all about the seasonal cool weather which was considered as Winter by Ivatans.
The local winter starts from second week of November to first week of February and during this season locals and tourists both enjoys this once [...]
Posted by
melo in Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Honesty Coffee Shop is a one of a kind store located in Ivana, Batanes. What makes this Ivatan store interesting? No one looks after the merchandise so each customer is pretty much free to move inside the store. Everyone is expected to be honest, the store owners trust the people enough to allow them to [...]
Posted by
melo in Friday, December 5th 2008
The town of Ivana is not only known for the most talked about “Honesty Coffee Shop”, it also has a Unesco heritage building that is popularly known as House of Dakay.
Lola Ida January 2005
The house of Dakay is probably the most visited house in Batanes. It is also the oldest house in Batanes which is [...]