There's a Friendship Band for Everybody

These are just some of the friendship bands being sold at Puerto Galera. With so much designs and colors to choose from, I'm sure there's one that will suit your taste.

A Bowl of Mystery

On top of each dining table in a restaurant called Sentro, lies a small bowl containing salted dried watermelon seeds (butong pakwan). Not your usual free appetizer but nevertheless truly fascinating as eating it is a great pastime while waiting for your orders to come. Although, eversince I have been mystified by this native delicacy. Why? It's because out of the countless watermelons that I have seen and eaten, I have never encountered any that has seeds that are as large as the butong pakwans that we eat. Makes me wonder, where did all these big watermelon seeds come from? I heard a really gross story about how these butong pakwans are made. Don't know if it's true though. I've tried Google-ing for the answer but found nothing. Maybe someone out there can enlighten me...

The Lone Cypress

I wonder if plants really do have feelings. If they do, then this tree along the 17-Mile Drive must be feeling very lonely amidst the cold Monterey Bay. Or maybe not. Often we hear people say that no man is an island. But maybe trees are.

The Vatican Grottoes

Just a level below the main floor of St. Peter's basilica lies the Vatican grottoes. This place serves as the burial site of saints, popes and other very important catholics. Should pope John Paul II be buried in the Vatican, his tomb shall also lie in this place. Others speculate that he may have left intructions for his final resting place to be at Poland, the place where he was born and spent most of his adult life.