TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Philippines: Rice Terraces, Chocolate Hills, Old Churches

Friday, May 30, 2014

Philippines: Rice Terraces, Chocolate Hills, Old Churches

Village in midst of Rice Terraces, Northern Luzon, Philippines

I have to confess that I have a couple of boxes with old pictures. which are in disarray. I've ignored them for years, totally intimidated about how to sort them out.

Today I pulled out this packet with a disc on a trip to the Philippines a while back. Here are some pictures of that trip to Bohol in Southern Philippines, followed by Vigan and Bontoc in Northern Philippines. I'm certain these places still look the same today as they did then.

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That's Lauren with Bohol's Chocolate Hills in the background

Chocolate Hlls, Bohol

Bell Tower, Northern Luzon

Sitting room, Villa Angela, Vigan, Northern Luzon

Villa Angela

Bell Tower of Bantay, Northern Luzon

Rice Terraces in Bontoc Province, Northern Luzon

If I find more interesting pictures, I'll post them, dear Readers.

This is all for now,
Cecilia

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tags: travel, tourism, Philippines, rice terraces, pictures, photographs, chocolate Hills, Vigan, Bohol, Northern Luzon

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.