Ilocos Trip 2010-Loaog Airport

Flying to the Ilocos Region - Zahnina Jayne

The trip to Ilocos via Loaog International Airport took about 40 minutes long, although it felt lesser than that. It felt much swifter than flying to Boracay. I had not even finishedmore than one chapter, and then we had to land. I was reading 'The Diary of a Wimpy Kid.'

I had finished the book cince, reading it every night, before I go to sleep. I am looking forward to reading the DIY version, the orange book. Maybe my Dad will get when I get back to Manila.

Getting off the plane, as usual, my Mom just had to take a photo.

Too bad she had accidentally erased the video! =(

After this, we took a serviced jeepney to Partas, where we waited for an hour before we could actually take the bus to Vigan, Ilocos Sur. In an hour and a half, we would arrive to our destination: San Vicente, Ilocos Sur... my Grandfather Roberto's hometown!

Ilocos trip part 3

Ilocos Sur Part 2

Ilocos Trip 2010 -Vigan Heritage Site/ Baluarte

Vigan, Ilocos Sur is the hometown of my late Grandfather Roberto. It is also the home of Unesco Heritage site--several streets paved with cobbled stones, where old houses, at least as old as five hundred years old are still standing to this day.

Me in a calesa in Calle Crisologo. This Calesa is a 1-HP-wheeled vehicle.

One horsepower, 1 HP, get it?

This is my cousin Gullian and me, buying pasalubong for my sister.

My Mom and me =) WE look alike!

Then we went to Baluarte. It is a park created by the governor, and it is in his front garden. He had dinosaur diorama all over the place. And entrance is FREE.

My cousin, Guillian and Kayla, on a calesa-donkey ride.

Me, on a donkey, or is it a small horse? Because that's already fullgrown according to the caretaker. Looks like a pony to me, don't you think.

Deer = Usa

Iguana = bayawak

Kids = mga bata,

and at the back, a sheep = tupa

The controversial one-man submarine. Yellow submarine...

The one I am holding is a few centuries-old canon, fished out from a treasure dive

a few years ago.

A very old turtle, or is that a tortoise?

Ponies and horses, the governor loves horses. There was supposed to be camels,

but it was their bath day. Yuck.

Tiger belat. We stuck our tongue out, and do did he.

Bambi's baby.

See, there's the dinosaur...

Bye, bye dinosaur. I'll see you next summer. May 2011. (See that white house up there? That's Chavit Singson's house. He's the Governor of Ilocos...

Takipsilim, meaning, 'sunset.'