Zamboanga City

Once Islas Travel Guide For First-Time Travelers ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, Philippines -- During our PHILTOA Zamboanga - Tawi-Tawi Familiarization trip a couple of months back, the last but definitely the most exciting destination we visited is a…

Zamboanga City Travel Guide Zamboanga City (Ciudad de Zamboanga) is Asia’s “Latin City” and a modern city inhabited by more than eight hundred thousand of people as of the 2015 Census.  It is situated on the island of Mindanao with…

Chavacano Cuisine: Discovering the Flavors of Zamboanga Zamboanga is a peninsula blessed with pink and white sand beaches, rich open seas, bird sanctuaries, historical sites, and beautiful parks. Being a city in a peninsula has also…

Young Foodies Fire Up the Stage for Savores 2017 For two years now, Paseo del Mar bears witness to a thriving food culture as some of Zamboanga’s most adventurous young foodies take the stage in introducing brand new flavors for the…

Travel Guide: Things to do and see in Zamboanga City Summertime is knocking on our doorways. Time to stop hiding in your homes, and time to go on an adventure in our wonderful country. Grab your friends, cameras, and tubes of sunscreen,…

Visiting the Ancient Burial Grounds in Sta Cruz Island, Zamboanga City After enjoying the cerulean skies, the pink sands, and the translucent blue tides of the Great Santa Cruz Island beach, our tour guide led us to a less lively place in…

The Pink Beach of Great Santa Cruz Island in Zamboanga City It has almost been a decade since I last set foot on Zamboanga City, also known as Asia’s Latin City. I mean, I’ve technically been there during the stopover in one of my recent…

Zamboanga City Bird Festival 2016 Last February 23-25, I was invited by Regional Director Mary June Bugante of the Department of Tourism (DoT) Region IX to celebrate Zamboanga City’s Bird Festival with them. It has been almost a decade…