Gala Pinoy Redux

After our trip to Iloilo, we then headed to Bacolod City. While this is already my second time to set my foot on Negros Island (check out this related post on the 4 things I wish I knew before going to Dumaguete), the trip to Bacolod was my first time to visit the region of Negros Occidental.

Check out this blog in the coming days as I chronicle my trip to Bacolod. I’ll also be posting the links here as I go.

• VIDEO: Life and Death – Butterflies at the Butterfly Garden, Mambukal Resort, Bacolod
• Talisay City’s ‘The Ruins’: Of Sugar Barons, Love, and More Sugar-Related Stories

Thanks and til next!

While you can always ask Iloilo’s friendly locals for directions, it still pays to do your research beforehand before going there. So if you want to go and visit the Jaro Cathedral, then here’s the post that you should read.

But first, let’s get schooled.

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This is probably one of the most comprehensive Project 365 updates I’ve had for the entire year. This set covers the entire month of November, although there aren’t too many photos during the first two weeks since I was divided between work and lots of other things. Anyhoo, here are my photos for last month. I hope you enjoy them. :)

Iloilo’s Jaro Cathedral

It’s my first time to visit Iloilo, so everything I knew about it was that it has a rich collection of old houses and churches–great subjects for photos. But what I found out early on was that there was something important that guide books and the people I talked to about the place didn’t mention.

Here’s the long and short of it: the people of Iloilo are some of the nicest and the most helpful people I know.
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Here I am again with a new update on my Project 365 set. I’ll speed up the updates until I return to the normal schedule of updates. Anyhoo, here they are.