Philippines

It's not letting up, I thought. The wind screamed and wailed, bending the thin walls of our beachfront cabin with every gust stronger...

The Black Nazarene is the single most highly revered religious icon in the whole of the Philippines - and for such a fervently Catholic...

Deep in the tourist mecca of Intramuros, stands the weather beaten 'wouldn't look out of place in a David Lynch film' Limtuaco Distillery...

Flying into Camiguin feels a lot like flying into Jurassic Park - if Jurassic Park were real with rumbling volcanoes, a sunken city and...

An abandoned theme park in the Philippines complete with Bavarian castles, broken windows on rooms never entered and ghostly rollercoasters.

This weekend I found myself with 24 hours to spend in the historic town of Taal, a small district of Spanish Colonial houses with a...

Mount Banahaw is a holy mountain home to the Rizalistas, followers of a new religion where the Philippines' most famous son is God.

It was a steaming afternoon in mid-summer when I found myself at the gates of Manila North Cemetery drenched in sweat and wondering what...

Think of Manila and your first thought is likely to be “traffic”. Or maybe crime, or pollution or a whole host of other negative...

Last weekend I spent a few days in Puerto Galera on the northern end of the island of Mindoro. It was my second trip down there and it's...

A lush garden oasis hides in the hills above Manila The verdant paradise that provides the setting for the Pinto Art Museum is probably...

Good Friday is commemorated to the extreme in San Fernando, Pampanga The blood whipped through the air lightly spraying my arms and...

I've been to Siquijor twice now and I'm still bowled over by the beauty of the place. A tiny speck of green mountains and deserted...

Modern art and sleek spaces, Ateneo is a gem Feeling hungover yet a little culture starved, I recently ventured north into Quezon City...

Manila can often seem like just the sum of its most obvious parts - traffic choked roads, never ending tail backs, polluted streets and...