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For a first time visitor of Iloilo , a weekend is definitely not enough to go around the province. After all it has a total of 42 municipalities and two big cities. It's surrounded with a large body of water thus there sure are a lot of places where you can go swimming or like in our case, simply enjoying the cool air while indulging in the freshest seafood. However, we went prepared and made sure we had a good taste of Iloilo by filling our minds with its rich culture, spoiling our eyes with the beautiful religious architectures and of course, making our tummies happy with its delicious food. Here are four things that you have to do when visiting Iloilo: 1) Go Church Hopping We told our Mom that Iloilo is simply the best place to be in during the Holy Week where we, Filipinos, would have the Visita Iglesia . This is an annual ritual of devout Catholics where we would visit seven churches during Maundy Thursday as we go through the Stations of the Cross. Iloilo is known...

From our amazing 8-hours stay in Bacolod , my sister and I took the ferry to hop over to Iloilo . Growing up, we've been hearing a lot of great stories about life in Iloilo from my sister's long-time yaya . She's an Ilongga and her stories about life in this province and the freshest seafood that you can find stayed in our minds for years. Truly, food is truly a great motivator for us to keep on traveling. So off we went to this province in the Panay Island in the Visayas region one weekend. Prior to our trip, we did our research and initially booked ourselves at the Sarabia Manor Hotel which is a popular hotel in the city. It is very big and usually the choice for business meetings and workshops as well. The hotel is also located along a very busy main road making it very easy should there be a need for you to hail a taxi to go around. However, we both found our room a bit old. The smell was not very fresh, the aircon quite noisy and some of the toilet fixtures are ...