A mad, rainy dash across Camiguin fails to reveal the island's true beauty.
Mindanao, the Philippines' southernmost island, is a virtual and cultural melting pot, although the island carries many influences and flavours from other lands, many indigenous tribes inhabit the vast regions of Mindanao.
Mindanao, a beautiful island in the Southern Philippines, the other side.
If the Filipino people have a reason for a celebration they will end up having a fiesta.
The Bilaan or B`laan are a tribal community of Southern Mindanao, the name of this indigenous group comes from the words Bla and An, meaning Opponent People.
Together with the Illanun and Maguindanao, the Maranao are one of three indigenous Muslim groups native to the island of Mindanao in the southwestern part of the Philippines, this tribal group share in a generalized Southeast Asian culture but has its own cultural identity.
Tausug or Suluk is the name of an Islamized tribal group in the Sulu archipelago, and is taken from the words tau meaning man and sug meaning current.
Scattered throughout the Southern Philippine Archipelago slowly disappearing tribes untouched by neither time nor colonization still exist in present time.
The Land of Kota Batu, a land never conquered by foreign intruders and long time defended by Moro warriors to protect their ancestral land and religion.
In Mindanao food is the basis of social life, here one can taste tempting food that has a unique mixture of western and eastern cuisine, but in its own way slightly strange, more different, daring and a delicious exception.