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See Iloilo’s best landmarks up close this January — history, culture, and photo-perfect moments.

Mom Violy, Tita Edna and Carmina have never been to Iloilo . Tita Edna suggested using her Philippine Airlines mileage to deduct 9,000 miles for a round trip to Iloilo and pay taxes of about 3,000 pesos ($50.85). Mom Violy and Carmina decided to do the same. Two weeks later, we learned Bacolod was recently hit by a typhoon, leaving fewer places to visit, so we changed our plans to stay in Iloilo, paying an additional 2,057 pesos ($34.86) for January 6–9, with Tita Edna leaving one day earlier on January 8, 2026.  Tita Edna told us that she has a friend Beth who can pick us up from the airport. Uniparentally plans had changed since her friend Beth and son could no longer tour us around, we decided to find ways to get around hire someone else. Jerson had picked us from One Madison Place where we had stayed during our vacation with the hours Mom Violy had requested. The first day we went to drive one hour and thirty minutes to reach  Miagao Church . We drove to our next destin...

Ponceng Lechon Restaurant in Cabanatuan City, Philippines

Every other two months when my mom decides to visit her hometown in Cabanatuan, she loves stopping over to bring some food from her favorite restaurant at Ponceng Lechon. Ponceng Lechon is like a Filipino calendera type where you pick what food you want to eat and pay at the cashier. You can choose which table you want to eat. Poceng Lechon was establishing on the year 2000 it is a family owned. Ponceng Lechon Address: Sumacab Este Maharlika Highway Cabanatuan City Located across from Acropolis North Hours: Monday to Sunday: 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM Prices on the food: PHP 70.00 ($1.40) and up per order on the food served that day. They also provide half order on the food served that day. Prices may varies depending on when you go there. NOT SPONSORED. Check out  Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  and click subscribe button for more videos. Thank you for your support.

Road Trip to Cabanatuan City, Philippines

Road trip to Cabanatuan City from Manila is three to four hours drive depending what route you will take. My mom loves taking the back road to buy fruits, vegetables, salted egg, and balut before we reach our destination. Stop # 1 : No one can live out with watermelon you see every time you pass by and this is one thing my mom loves to eat either to blend to make a watermelon smoothie or cut up from the refrigerator. Price of each watermelon is PHP 70.00 ($1.40) Stop # 2: Vegetables sold on the street onion from red or white and raw uncooked peanuts. Price of Peanut and onions are PHP 100.00 ($2.00) per kilo Stop # 3: Exotic balut in what I had mentioned before in my blog on exotic food you may check it out for your reference. Jing Jing is a place where you buy it wholesale and the main factory that provide other sellers in the Philippines. Price on salted egg  per piece PHP 10.00 ($0.20) Penoy Balut per piece PHP 6.00 ...