Fine Rock Hotel
Travel Blogs from Iloilo City
Guimares Island
We stayed at the Raymen Beach Resort for just one night and after a lot of thought and discussion we ranked it as the second worst place we have ever stayed at.
The bamboo room offered little protection from the mosquitoes, the throngs of drunk locals dropped litter everywhere and the f***ing karaoke went on all night. The room was also over ...
Farewell to the clinics..
... their computers on Facebook. On their phones or in coffee shops, Facebook is everywhere.
We started the long trek back to Tacloban and didn't arrive to Robinson's until almost 2p.m. which is pretty late. Allyson and I decided to try a new resturant today and attempted a Filipino version of Mexican food. Shockingly, it was AMAZING! Very different, but really good. I mean when can you have a mushroom taco in America with ...
Dagami - Take Two!
... I’ve never seen so many fish in my life in one place either. Literally 1,000’s of fish all laid out on tables for rows and rows. Here’s where we also experience the children who don’t get to go to school and have to “sell” to help earn money for their families. They were begging like crazy, trying to push their fruit or vegetables on us and when we said no they spit at us. Tough scene, so we didn’t stay long.
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The Road to Dagami
... 8217;t be beat. We also found a great Americanized coffee shop where I had the best Oreo smoothie of my life. Yum.
All our favorite children were on the streets today to greet us when we arrive home from work. I look forward to this every day. They literally run down the streets when they see us coming and it instantly makes me happy. I took some photos of them today; hoping to develop them at Robinson’s to give them as gifts before we go. Filipinos ...
Impressed by Iloilo's Imagery
... in La Paz in our must-visit list as we all felt duty-bound to pray in the church of the revered lady, asking God for strength, stamina and safety as we went on with our three-day invasion of the province. Having said our prayers, we took a ride to the market to savor La Paz’s world-famous delicacy — batchoy!
Sated, we went back to the downtown area and proceeded to St. Joseph’s Church. For a while, ...