Philippine Travel Notes

Alright folks, here I go again... one of the few things I post that are "before the fact" which I gladly oblige owing to the many of you who keep asking. So below is the fresh list of activities for the Sinulog 2011 Festival. Why the capitalized 'ANNOTATED' on the title of this post? Well, again for you, who (like me) do not have a month nor a week to spend for the festival, so you can pick your dates. Yes yes, like many of you, I also hate those festivals listed at the wow philippines whatever website, giving date ranges where the (would be) first-time visitor is not given a clear idea on WHICH is the highlight day or the "D-Day" or the "real" festival date! For Sinulog 2011 , it is January 16, 2011 (the 3rd Sunday of January as usual). So mark your calendars. And don't be bothered or confused with the following schedule of activities ( blue font ) that starts as early as December 1, 2010 until February 10, 2011. Like hello?! That is why the ...

Its been there for a long time, I have lived in the metropolis for also a long time, and I have never actually seen this street where the lechon houses are lined up! Well I went there and OMG, lechon there are and salivate you will! If all the ‘whole’ cooked lechon I saw could have been gathered together, they’d easily be a platoon! Well, if I include those whole pigs waiting to be cooked, those that were already packed for delivery and those that were already being chopped in the many lechon stores… all the lechon I saw could probably be a battalion hehe. Yeah am exaggerating… But this was the first time I got to see so many whole cooked and uncooked lechon. Wow. Where is it? At the famous La Loma district of Quezon City. Or is it Manila? Or both? I think it’s the border of the two cities, whatever! Driver just asked around and voila we were there! The district though is more famous for something else far from lechon hehe. It is where the La Loma Cemetery (north cemetery?) is located ...