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Baybay Church

Baybay ChurchOriginally uploaded by Mcforest.

Saw this church in the SIMBAHAN Flickr pool. Really a beautiful old church with a simple facade but god, its marred by an out of place portico! What’s with these priests anyway? Don’t they just have good taste? Don’t they respect history, cultural heritage?

Everytime I visit an old church and see this kind of defacement just makes me sad and shake my head in disappointment. Just like when on my way from Pagsanjan to Lucban and saw Luisiana’s old church. At first, I was ecstatic when portions of the facade came into view. Its really old, yet simple but when the whole front became visible, I gasped in horror! A very new portico with gaudy red roof was built!

So badly done, so out of place. And that’s just one of what’s befalling many centuries old churches in the country.

Trip to Guiuan, 4 - At Palo, Leyte

After staying for 2 days in Guiuan, I proceeded back to Tacloban for the return trip to Ormoc and eventually to Cebu. However, since I still had time to spare as the bus trip for Ormoc was still late afternoon, I proceeded to Palo, Leyte at the McArthur landing (left). Right, surfers, to be exact, skim boarders, waiting for a good wave to skim.

An ecstatic skim boarder doing the waves at the shoreline.