ILOILO: HEART of the PHILIPPINES

Iloilo City's newest landmark -  Injap Tower Hotel , was my home away from home during the Blog The City of Love campaign of the hotel to promote Iloilo City. For 3-days and 2-nights bloggers and writers from around the Philippines made this newly opened 21-storey edifice their pitstop for this heritage, cultural, historical and gastronomic tour of the City of Love. As I traversed the long pedestrian walkway, I wondered which among the almost 200 rooms will be my sanctuary during the course of the event. It was around two months ago when Injap Tower Hotel opened with a big bang that got Ilonggos very excited. Seeing the tallest structure in the region, from almost anywhere in the city is imposing enough but the view from atop the tower was another thing. Injap Tower Hotel's opening night kaboom! Photo by King Erlano After a brief check in at the front desk, I found myself on the 14th floor of the tower with my room just outside the elevator and facing th Iloilo Di

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.(RAFI) recently inaugurated the first and only fully dedicated Adventure Education Center in the Philippines - Kool Adventure Camp (KAC) . Formally opened to the public on August 2, 2014, K.A.C. is located in Brgy. Cansomoroy, Balamban - about an hour's drive west of Cebu City via the Transcentral Highway.  The inauguration ceremony was led by Department of Education Undersecretary for External Linkages Mario Deriquito and Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III together with the Aboitizes and the whole RAFI  family.  Kool Adventure Campers giving the guests a very warm welcome A flagship program of RAFI under its Leadership & Citizenship focus area, RAFI-KAC's mission is to equip organizations and individuals with the character, competence and citizenship to be leaders of change, through powerful learning experiences.  Bloggers and media guests from all over Visayas and Mindanao were there not only to cover the inauguration bu