Eversince MG’s school ended, I’ve been trying to come up with ways to keep her entertained. We’ve gone swimming five times already. We’ve gone malling much too many times. We’ve eaten out more than enough. So what else is left but to travel. We’re going to Singapore last week of May. It would be our first out-of-the-country trip together and I can’t wait. But before that, I’ve also scheduled short out-of-town trips before school resumes this June.
So as of late, we’ve been to Bataan, Subic, Quezon, Laguna and Batangas. There’s still Clark in Pampanga scheduled third week of May. I don’t know if we can go up to Baguio still but I really want to.
Anyway, during our last trip, we ended up joining the Tsinelas Festival in Liliw, Laguna. What was originally planned was just a driving tour with a stop-over at significant landmarks around Laguna towns. We stopped at Pila to take photos of the old houses, Nagcarlan to see the underground cemetery and finally at Liliw to eat at Arabela. We were surprised when we arrived a festival was actively going on. It was the annual Tsinelas Festival of Liliw to celebrate the town’s main product and livelihood. There were a lot of foreigners and people from Manila. We would have stayed longer if we had known that there was a fiesta but since our main goal was to eat at Arabela, we did just that and after, joined the festivities for a bit.
WARNING: photo-heavy
old houses in Pila, Laguna
underground cemetery in Nagcarlan
mime artists?!
LECHON, ever present in fiestas
MG and Juancho aboard the tsinelas float
old church
MG & Juancho inside the Church
walking to Arabela from the Church
waiting for a table at Arabela
Juancho
Tricia
my sister
MG
inside the resto
Amazing mountain view
Hope we go this route again in the near future. The town is beautiful and charming, the view is amazing and the people are warm and friendly.
