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Camotes Island

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I can’t get enough of Cebu, my next trip with my best friend Patti was in Camotes Island when she was still living in Cebu way back then.

From the North Terminal, we rode a bus that was passing to Danao,  one hour and half ride from the terminal.    Danao port is located on the right side of the road.  We waited for the Ro-Ro vessel that would take us to Camotes Island for another two hours boat ride going to Puertobello Wharf Port.

We rented a habal habal to take us to Mangodlong Rock Resort located in San Francisco town.   We had our lunch in the restaurant.  We explored the beach front of Mongodlong beach.  With its seashell shore and rocky beach, they also made connecting bridge and ladders to the rock formation. 

Camotes Island is compose of four  San Francisco, Tudela, Poro and Pilar.

We then rented a habal habal again to tour Camotes Island.  We passed by the Poro Town before we went to tour the island.  Our first destination was Bukilat Cave in Tudela which was aroung 30 minutes from Mangodlong.    We went down to the cave and took pictures.  It was a small cave and we were the only tourist inside at that time. We went to Buho Rock Resort where you could see the Buho Garden.  We have to go down to see the amazing rock formation and the garden were located along the stairs going down.   After which we were able to see the Lake Danao. 

Starting my blog

Last year, I was thinking of creating my blog again.  I used to have my blog but I deleted it some 8 years ago.  It was somehow a personal blog, so I decided that this time it would be a travel blog.  But I couldn't find the words to write anything.  I write articles for magazines but I couldn't start for my blog until January of this year.

I met with my classmate Rafael to start the blog.  We would be needing 20 write ups, in which I made a deadline for myself to launch the blog during Chinese New Year.  So I uploaded my first entry on the 20th using this website but failed to have 20 posts.  It took 2 months to complete the 20 posts and it got better in time.  I know now what to write and what to focus on.

Rafael and I met again, but this time with Bryan a web developer.  We formulated the blog and so we created the A Journey With Me blog last March.  And now we have a team, the three of us developing our website which is mostly about travel, food, on-line magazine and technology stuff for travel.

I decided to retain this blog, for personal use.  And to link our official blog here.

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Growing Up in Pahiyas Festival in Lucban

Since we were kids, my cousins and I would go to Lucban for a summer vacation.  We would go there to experience the Pahiyas Festival in honor of San Isidro de Labrador for the good harvest of the whole town.   Every 15^th of May the creativity would differ from every household using colourful kipings or crispy rice, higantes, different fruits, vegetables, root crops and rice barn, woven hats and other native products from Lucban and even our famous longganisa.

      

I still remember how the Lucbanin (locals of Lucban) would prepare for the festival.  The process would  start by setting where the Festival would go. Or like my mother would ask “Daan ba sa atin?”  Which means if pahiyas would pass by in our street.

 It would take a month or so to prepare for the payas (much often used by Lucbanin) or design of the house.  

The kipings were prepared every day because it takes time for the leaves to dry.  And if you are going to make an ‘arangya’ or chandeliers of different colors, you need to make as much to form it.  I remember we made an arangya from the ceiling of the second floor down to the first floor of our house in Lucban.  There are other decorations that you could make using kiping like flowers, wall papers, and other artworks.

They also need to check if they will be harvesting enough be used as decorations.  And some also weave hats to be used or other native products.  Higantes or life sized  machete of the people and animals were also made depending on what the house thinks of as payas.

We also prepares food for the event like, kalderetang kalabaw, hardinera, embotido, pansit habhab o pansit lucban, longganisang lucban,  kesong puti, kinulob and other food for the visitors.  And other delicacies and breads like pinais, biko, suman, halayang ube, budin, broas, meringue, puto seko etc. 

On the 14^th of May, we would start decorating the front house.  (Before in the 80’s, I remember when I was a kid, we would set up during the dawn of the 15^th).  We will leave it to our older cousins and uncles to decorate the house in the morning of 15^th, while the girls would start roaming the streets of the festival to check the other decorations.  Between 11AM to 2PM, the judges would start checking the houses.

In the afternoon, we would wait for the parade of muses and escorts, carabaos, higantes and float of San Isidro Labrador.  Then we would also wait if we won any award.  Our house in Regidor wins most of the time.  We experienced 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, best in arangya, or any other consolation prizes.  That’s why it was a tradition to design our house beautifully. At night, there’s also a competition, the Pahiyas are set up with lights to give glow in the evening, especially the night tourists.

Kamay ni Hesus in Lucban

My mother’s hometown is in Lucban, Quezon.  My memories are filled with so many good things about Lucban especially during Holy Week and the San Isidro de Labrador Festival every 15^th of May.  One remarkable attraction for Catholic devotees was the construction of Kamay ni Hesus or Hand of Jesus Shrine, only a few kilometres from the town of Lucban.

Kamay ni Hesus was built in 2002.  It is one of the most visited sacred grounds and  piligrimage not just during the Lenten Season but almost every day.  People flocked the Shrine to repent, give thanks, pray for healing, to be blessed, hear mass and to visit the different sites.  The Shrine includes the Via Dolorosa Grotto, Healing Church, Noah’s Ark, Sea of Galilie, Holy Family Park and the Pastoral Center founded by the Healing Priest, Fr. Joey Faller.

And like me who came from Manila and the rest of the Teope clan in Lucban, we would take time to go to Kamay ni Hesus.  I’m not sure how many times did we experienced climbing the 305 steps grotto to reach the 50 foot statue of Jesus Christ.  

But once you reach the top, the view is amazing. You'd also feel the cold and windy temperature above.