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With Philippine tourism at a crossroads, it’s time to reset for resilience and relevance
Underground River —PHOTO BY ANDREA H. TRINIDAD
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June 3, 2025June 3, 2025Tourism

With Philippine tourism at a crossroads, it’s time to reset for resilience and relevance

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Tourist arrivals to the Philippines in the first quarter of 2025 reflect both an overall increase in volume and an alarming dip in key source markets. According to the Department of Tourism (DOT), arrivals from South Korea and China fell by 13.9% and a dramatic 33.7%, respectively, compared to the numbers in the first quarter...

The Sinulog is also a festival to recall Christianity’s birth in the Philippines
Spanish soldiers and native warriors face each other at the reenactment of the planting of Magellan’s cross. —PHOTOS FROM THE BASILICA MINORE DEL SANTO NIÑO DE CEBU FB
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January 19, 2025January 19, 2025Faith

The Sinulog is also a festival to recall Christianity’s birth in the Philippines

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The Feast of the Santo Niño or the Holy Child Jesus falls yearly on the third Sunday of January. Though originally a simple religious feast, it has become one of the grandest and most colorful festivals now called the Sinulog.  To celebrate this year’s festival, various activities were lined up by the Basilica Minore del...

fossil
The stone my cousin picked up on the beach was a smooth pebble with a single corallite on it, like a flower imprinted on stone. Beautiful. The corallite-covered stone in this photo has an interesting story to it. While walking along R. Evangelista in Quiapo, I saw a small crowd gathered around a stand in mid-street. A tout was displaying pretty and strange-looking stones which, he claimed, were “buhay na bato” (live stones) that had various powers—this one, he said, would ensure one’s success as a gambler; that one would make one lucky in love. The stones were expensive. An almost round bit of fossil coral was P500! I settled for the stone in the photo which, though not as pretty, cost only P100.
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September 1, 2023September 2, 2023Life, Science

Family and fossils: My cousin Isko and my first precious find

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(First of two parts) I found my first fossil on a rocky shore in Catmon, a town an hour’s drive from Cebu City.  My family and I were on a drive through the countryside north of the city: Liloan, Danao, Carmen, Catmon, Sogod … On the way back we stopped at the only decent public...