northern samar visit
Friday, July 17th, 2009am greatly honored to be part of the core group tasked to prepare a book for the centenary celebration of Diocese of Calbayog. the team is composed of writers, photographers and researchers. our first research and photo assignment was in northern samar, particularly the towns of catubig, palapag, laoang, catarman and capul. these places were considered to have the oldest churches in the north, erected during the first mission of the jesuits in samar island.
here are few of the images i created during our 3-day travel.
palapag church - built during the 1600’s by jesuits missionaries
a portion of the walls of catubig church
though some of these photos were already uploaded in my previous posts, am showing it again for some reason.
a perceptible threat to the forest of samar, ’slash and burn’ farming practice. cutting down and burning a million-worth of trees and other species in exchange for an uncertain income from farming rootcrops and what not… this is evident when you pass through the road from buray to borongan.
a 7am scene at bagong barrio. an upstream ride via suribao river starting from the foot of maydolong bridge in eastern samar leads you to this idyllic place, a place to enjoy the intimate view of
Mono falls. this will make your visit to the place ‘worth it’.
