Blog – Untouristing

5 Places to Visit with Your Mom on a Weekend

There are many bars in Malate, but I doubt it’s the kind of place we’d want to visit with our mom, if ever. When my mom and I spent

This morning, the University of the Philippines’ Faculty Center was gutted by a ravenous fire. According to news sites, the fire began

We all know that the current passport is drab and unassuming. The new design, however, contains illustrations that speak to the country’s

This is the first of a three-part series on the places in Manila your mother warned you about. “Downtown Manila” used to be the old

Since my last post, I’ve been to Buscalan, Kalinga twice, and got inked by the legendary Whang-Od two more times

For more than an hour, we rumbled across the hilly landscape of T’boli, dashing past acres after acres of banana plantations

We made a quick trip back to SIKAT, where we had a filling breakfast of fried rice, egg, and fried eggplant. After an hour, we were back

First stop: General Santos City. For a chartered city, GenSan had very few stores open in the morning, which was bad news for starving tourists

Fifty years ago, our parents enjoyed a decent lifestyle in which they can watch vaudevilles and zarsuelas, play on the streets

My friends love camping and beach-bumming, but I don’t. I’m scared of tiny critters in waters and sand, especially jellyfish