Philippine Culture Travel

Discover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating audiobook on its history, from the origins of the archipelago’s first peoples until modern times. The Philippines is possibly the most intriguing nation of maritime Southeast Asia. The archipelago has almost 8,000 islands that form the apex of the Coral Triangle of the Asian Pacific, as well as abundant marine life that constitutes almost half of this magnificent area’s oceanic megadiversity.

A History of the Philippines is a short, dense and temporally expansive book. It starts with the Evolution of the Land 100 million years ago. The writing is predominantly dry, dispassionate and academic. It's full of details, and often presumes an existing familiarity with Philippine history and culture, introducing terms with no definition provided.

The Heart of the Islands Second Chances and Finding Home in the Philippines When life offers you a blank page, sometimes the best stories begin far from home. At sixty-two — recently divorced and adrift — writer Andrés Wright lands in the Philippines with a weathered suitcase and a writer’s detachment. He’s come to document a foreign culture, but his carefully planned research is quickly upended by his guide, Sabel — a woman of quiet strength navigating her own web of secrets and a life built on careful compromise. She leads him beyond the tourist trail and into the country’s ...

This photo based tour of the Philippines includes a mini-guide to animals, food, shopping, and scenic shots from around the Philippines and tourist locations (such as the Banaue rice terraces.) This mini-guide won't cover Manila and mainly focuses on the north (Baguio, La Union, and Pangasinan.) I've included a few Tagalog words (with their English equivalents) and over 75 photos with brief descriptions.