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Travel Wednesday – Samar Trip Day 4: Seeing Guiuan with New Eyes

Posted by Cedric A. Solidon On November - 2 - 2011

View from Calicoan Island

“Okay, Guiuan, what do you have in store for me this time?” I asked myself as I woke up to the sound of waves at the ABC beach in Guiuan’s Calicoan Island.

It’s my first time to be in Calicoan, but I’ve been to Guiuan so many that I couldn’t possibly come up with creative stuff to write about it.

It was great then that an old friend, Ms. Janet Israel, was our tour guide for that day. And while I try as much as I can from packaged tours and tour guides for most of my trips, this one was a welcome exception. It was probably because I knew our guide, or maybe because I needed to write down as many the facts and details I could for the article I was going to write once the trip is over.
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Gala Pinoy Redux is Cedric A. Solidon\'s travel and photography blog, with an occasional offbeat humor thrown in.

The blog originally started in late 2006 as Gala Pinoy, where the author shared his early travels to different parts of the country.

Travel Blog with a Little Humor Thrown In

Traveling sometimes can be stressful, especially when traveling to destinations for the first time. Thus, the author unloads some of the stress by sharing humorous travel insights and photos along the way.

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