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Dried Fish Arrangement

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 12, 2013

Arrangement, Food, Ilocos Norte Batac, dried fish, pindang, tuyo

Sachet / Micro Selling

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 12, 2013

Our “tingi” mentality made micro selling a big thing in the country. I think this is why sari-sari stores were born where its goal was to sell single-serve packs of anything. I’m sure backpackers touring Philippines will appreciate those single-serve shampoo packs and other toiletries from the sari-sari stores.

Fabric conditioner, dishwashing liquid

Detergent powder, shampoo

Ground pepper, laurel leaf with whole peppercorns

Packaging micro selling, sachet marketing, sari-sari store, single-serve pack, tingi

Wrought Iron Ornaments

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 12, 2013

Wrought iron designs as seen in the heritage houses of Vigan.

Art, Ilocos Sur grillwork, Ornamentation, Vigan, wrought iron

Pink Trikes

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 11, 2013

Balaoan town require the tricycles to be in pink.

Cute

La Union, Public Transportation, Transport Balaoan, tricycle, trike

Kuliglig

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 11, 2013

Hand tractor with trailer is a very common sight in the highways of rural provinces such as Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan. With a trailer, it can function as human or farm goods transporter.

Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan, Transport hand tractor, kuliglig

Tinubong

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 11, 2013

Bamboo packaged delicacy of Ilocos.

Food, Ilocos Sur, Packaging bamboo, kakanin, Sto Domingo, tinubong

Horse-drawn Hearses

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 10, 2013

Came upon two separate funeral processions in Vigan where both hearses are horse-drawn.

Funeral coach the Vigan way

Ilocos Sur, Transport funeral, hearse, horse carriage, Vigan

Sta Lucia Church

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 10, 2013

Facade and belfry

Church with a dome

Beautiful

Ilocos Sur, Structure church, Sta Lucia

Four-legged Lawn Mowers

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 10, 2013

Goats maintaining the lawn

Creature, Ilocos Norte Batac, goats

Traditional Strainer

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 10, 2013

Apparatus, Ilocos Sur, Local Stuff strainer, Vigan

Tyre Plant Pot

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 9, 2013

Repurposed tyre as plant pot.

Repurposing, Tarlac Camiling, plant pot, tyre

Cape Bolinao

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 8, 2013

Would make a nice finish line in a foot race

Pangasinan, Structure Cape Bolinao, lighthouse, parola, Patar

Araro, Gasera, Salakot

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 8, 2013

Roadside stalls selling what a local Filipino farmer might need.

Ploughs (araro)

Farming hats (salakot)

Kerosene lamps (gasera)

Apparatus, Local Stuff, Tarlac araro, Camiling, gasera, hoe, kerosene lamp, plough, salakot, sombrero

Quezon Tamales

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 7, 2013

Similar to machang dim sum except for the packaging.

Wrapped in banana leaf and tied with straw

Food, Packaging, Quezon machang, tamales, Tayabas

Patar Seascape

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 7, 2013

Not swimmable beach

See the lighthouse

Swimmable beach

Pangasinan beach, Bolinao, Patar

Rooster Shed

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 7, 2013

Repurposed plastic drum as shed for fighting cock.

Pangasinan, Repurposing, Structure fighting cock, plastic blue drum, rooster

Casio (Shellfish)

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 6, 2013

The girl eats the foot of this shellfish as soon as her grandmother pulls it from the sand in the shallow waters of Tondol beach in Anda Island.
The granny calls this edible mollusk as “casio”. So it’s casio for their dinner (sans the tails) by cooking it in the pot in low fire to make a soup of it from its own water.