{"id":15306,"date":"2013-06-10T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=15306"},"modified":"2013-06-10T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:35:10","slug":"philippines-photo-tour-northern-luzon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/philippines-photo-tour-northern-luzon\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Photo Tour: Northern Luzon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but the internet availability in Vigan and Sagada isn’t sufficiently fast to upload images.We’re now in Manila after our tour through northern Luzon’s picturesque UNESCO world heritage city of Vigan and the mountain village of Sagada. Today I’ll be posting images from Vigan.<\/p>\n

Traveling to Vigan, requires a very long ride or a short 1 hour flight from Manila. We chose the flight, which arrives at the closest airport in the town of\u00a0 Laoag and then took a two hour ride south to reach our destination.<\/p>\n

Vigan is the capital of the Province of Ilocos Sur and is one of the few Hispanic towns left in the Philippines. Vigan is well known for its cobblestone streets, and a unique architecture that fuses Philippine and Oriental building designs and construction, with colonial European architecture.Vigan also boasts a long history of pottery production and a small but thriving weaving industry.<\/p>\n

The horse drawn carriages (Calesas) that ply the cobblestone streets of Vigan give visitors a feel of having stepped back in time. Former Philippine president Elpidio Quirino, the sixth president of the Philippines, was born in Vigan.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the following 24 images…<\/p>\n

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