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Lianga's Lush Greenery by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 20, 2008Many visitors to Lianga, especially those from the city, cannot get enough of the lush greenery that characterizes the countryside just outside of the town. The green is not only in the rice fields and the coconut farms but also in the thickly fores...

Lianga's Lush Greenery by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 20, 2008Many visitors to Lianga, especially those from the city, cannot get enough of the lush greenery that characterizes the countryside just outside of the town. The green is not only in the rice fields and the coconut farms but also in the thickly fores...

Lianga's Three-Wheeled Street Kings by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 16, 2008Lianga's most common form of public transportation within the town environs is the tricycad. The word is derived from English word, tricycle, and the Bisayan term, sikad, which means "to pedal or kick". Tricycads were originally foot-powe

Lianga's Three-Wheeled Street Kings by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 16, 2008Lianga's most common form of public transportation within the town environs is the tricycad. The word is derived from English word, tricycle, and the Bisayan term, sikad, which means "to pedal or kick". Tricycads were originally foot-powe

Lianga Streets by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008A couple of my blog posts in "A Lianga Diary" dealt with the fact that life in Lianga moves at a slower and more sedate pace than what city dwellers are often used to. This pictures taken of several of the town streets in the early afternoon sh

Low Tide by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008Because many Lianga residents have extensively enlarged their properties by reclaiming land from the sea, little of the original shoreline can be seen. Instead, what can be viewed at low tide are the tidal marshlands and mudflats often covered by se...

Lianga's Old Houses by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008Much of Lianga's main streets are peppered by old houses which date back to the middle of the last century and even earlier. These give the town an retro or Old World ambiance that visitors seldom find anywhere else in that part of Mindanao. When o

Lianga Streets by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008A couple of my blog posts in "A Lianga Diary" dealt with the fact that life in Lianga moves at a slower and more sedate pace than what city dwellers are often used to. This pictures taken of several of the town streets in the early afternoon sh

Dusk In Lianga by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008I was out for my late afternoon stroll, camera in hand, trying to capture a shot of the sunset fading beyond the mountains to the west of Lianga, when I took a picture of this young man sitting on a rock beside his bicycle parked just along the town'

Sunrise In Lianga by A Lianga Diary In Photographs on Dec 13, 2008One of the things I like about waking up early in Lianga is the chance to catch the sun breaking out of the eastern horizon. This shot was taken almost two years ago and I immediately liked what I saw in the raw print. It was later used in one of t...