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Bacolod City: Civilization Gone with the Wind

Bacolod City: Civilization Gone with the Wind

When people speak of Bacolod, my mind conjures images of the old pre-civil war South in America. Like America’s old south, old Bacolod used to be the home of aristocratic hacienderos with vast sugar plantations, employing thousands of peasants to work in sugar plantations and azucareras.

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Published at 2020-10-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, History

Tags: Bacolod, Balay, Negros, Occidental

Balay Daguinot: an Incredible House Made of Wood

Balay Daguinot: an Incredible House Made of Wood

One of the unfamiliar spots worth visiting is a house called “Balay Daguinot.” Surrounding the area are banana trees which grow abundantly in the town, and the reason why they celebrate the Banana Festival every first week of April.

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Published at 2018-03-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary

Tags: Balay

Balay Sa Kabos: A House for My Neighbor

Balay Sa Kabos: A House for My Neighbor

At least three remarkable things come from the 3rd class municipality of Jagna (population 35,000) along the southern coast of Bohol. Over two centuries ago, this seemingly sleepy backwater was the birthplace of the Dagohoy Revolt, the longest-running Anti-Spanish rebellion (1744 to 1829).

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Published at 2018-03-14 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Stories

Tags: Balay

Camiña Balay Nga Bato: an Ancestral House of Iloilo City

Camiña Balay Nga Bato: an Ancestral House of Iloilo City

Aside from seeing beaches, view from mountain decks and tasty delicacies... visiting ancestral houses is one of the many things I look forward when traveling. Simply because I got to see even a bit of what it's like to live in the past and also to hear stories and learned new things from those old houses.

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Published at 2018-01-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Travel

Tags: Balay, Iloilo, Tsokolate