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A January 2008 trip to Vigan by marseilles

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Playa Del Oro Photo - Vigan, Philippines
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The first challenge was finding a place to stay, in a town I had not been to in over 27 years. My Lonely Planet guidebook was missing, and I had no idea where to begin.I searched for "Vigan hotels" on Google and made a few initial phone calls, only to be rudely surprised by the skyhigh prices of Vigan hotels. I should've expected it; after all, Vigan was a UNESCO Heritage site and had recently been upgraded to a city, and therefore it should have touristy prices to match. But I suppose I had expected Vigan to be a sleepy little town with corresponding sleeply little prices. Hotel rooms of the inns listed on the Internet were in the P1500 to P3000 range, the kind of p...Read More

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Vigan Photo - Vigan, Philippines
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Vigan, the capital of Ilocos Sur, is my father's birthplace, and the hometown of my paternal ancestors. The last time I had been to Vigan was when I was three, and the only things I remember about the trip are waking up in the car (after sleeping for several hours) and stopping at a little store for ice cream.But Vigan remained mystical and beautiful in my mind's eye, all the years I was growing up. I often saw photographs of the carefully preserved Crisologo Street, the most well-preserved Spanish-era colonial area in all of the Philippines (and a UNESCO heritage site because of that), but in my imagination those photographs came to life, and I imagined my fellow-Ilocanos, dark-skinned ...Read More

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