Mt. TUPIRA

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"It was a road to the towers and to a great view"

-pagnapagna

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #16 BANTAY (Ilocos Sur)

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"My Second time around  to visit this old Bell Tower that served also as Watchtower.
I think this completes my post for the Ilocos Sur Watchtowers."

-pagnapagna

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My KANNAWIDAN+ 2019

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"Since 2017, we the La Union TIMPUYOG Artes ti Ilocandia
 an artists group to which I belong, 
were participants to the Kannawidan Festival.
 And this 2019, we were once again there to share our arts"

-pagnapagna

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"GAWED" Falls

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"After an almost one month of rains last August, this September,

 I went to revisit a waterfall up in the mountains of Alilem 
and found more cascades downstream"

-pagnapagna

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BAYBAYKI FALLS

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"After an almost one month of rains last August, this September,

 I went to revisit a waterfall up in the mountains of Alilem"

-pagnapagna

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BURAYOK of Sitio Tagpeo

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"I walked all the way from the intersection at Barangay Man-atong on a one-lane road until the 
turning point at Sitio Tagpeo of Barangay Dinwede West to see this waterfalls but it compared 
nothing to locals who walk 4 to 5 hours from the far flung sitios"

-pagnapagna

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Revisiting Suyo's Dawara and Sangbay ni Ragsak with sidetrip to Luna, La Union

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"Whatta day"

-pagnapagna

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"Napisi a Bato" (Biak na Bato)

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"A rock formation along the creamy white sands of Santiago"

- pagnapagna

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DADDAAY : The second time around

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"My second time around and there is much more to see"

-pagnapagna

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SANGBAY NI RAGSAK, DAWARA AND SANGBAY... the second time around

"As the sun was shining directly above us, there I was on top and near the edge of a small waterfall, looking far and away at the cloud-kissed distant mountains, down to the small houses and fields, humbled by nature, felt so small but great with God's creation"

-pagnapagna

Our journey to APANG HOT SPRING

 "The Hot spring is located near the boundary of Alilem to Bakun, Benguet"

-pagnapagna

DADDAAY : waterfalls and rice terraces

"A place named from a tree locally known as Daay"

-pagnapagna

Hike to Barangay BATBATO and a glimpse of DADDAAY Rice Terraces

"Hiked all the way up"

-pagnapagna

KEN NGILAWEN Burial Cave

"Sheltered in a cave. A work of art of craftsmen for the departed"

-pagnapagna

WATERFALLS of Ilocos Sur

"Exploring Ilocos Sur : Ilocos Sur is also a haven of waterfalls, from the short & small ones to one of the largest in the region"

-pagnapagna

SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #9 Salomague watchtower's sad fate (Ilocos Sur)

"They had done their part and this one had gone away. How ironic, soon it will be forgotten"

-pagnapagna

SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #8 San Esteban (Ilocos Sur)

"I got a feeling that the barangay was named after the energy giving cells called Batteries which we call it in Ilocano as BATERIA. Funny, even the watchtowers' shapes are like batteries. Just a silly thought." 

-pagnapagna

SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #7 Narvacan (Ilocos Sur)

"The Spaniards had left a legacy of seaside Watchtowers in our country and one of the many Watchtowers in the Ilocos Region is this brick-laid at Barangay Sulvec"

-pagnapagna

SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #6 Santiago (Ilocos Sur)

"It was here where they kept an eye on enemies from the seas entering the Sabangan Cove"

-pagnapagna

PIKKANG FALLS

"There is something about waterfalls that keeps me wanting to see more. Is it the energy of its cascades? The falling waters that turns to spray and even to mist as it drops at a greater height? 

Each waterfall differs from one to another. One just have to visit two or more to see their differences"

-pagnapagna