Captured Glimpses of Our Beautiful World

my mind is just so full of thoughts about traveling and doing it long term... i hope to start very soon... I would really like you to  come and travel with me... ~

Welcome to the Peaceful Town of Carmen ... where streets are clean and lined with trees  ... where pebbled-beach shores are trash-free   . ... where few ancestral homes still stand ... where mountain springs are refreshingly cold and flows abundantly ... where the Child Jesus and the  angels invite you to take the stairway to Heaven ... where saints seem to silently guide you as you walk towards Him Come, visit Carmen now... ... and may Peace be with you always~~~ The town is an hour and a half bus ride from  Cebu City which will just cost you P 30, and another 30-peso habal-habal ride from the town proper to the monastery.  The Eco-Farm is just a walking distance from the monastery.

According to the story passed through generations, a couple was resting under the tree, eating boiled bananas while dipping it in vinegar and salt. Spanish guards then suddenly showed up asking, “Como se llama esto pueblo?” or “What is the name of this town?” when translated in English. The couple, not knowing the Spanish language, misunderstood the question and presuming that the guards were asking on what they are doing, they answered, “toslob” or “dipping” the bananas into the vinegar and salt. After hearing the word, the guards kept on repeating the word and eventually listed it down as the name of the town. As time passed by, the “t” was dropped, making it Oslob, the current name of the place. It's about 4 hours from Cebu City. The Church of the Nuestra Senora de la Inmaculada Concepcion established in 1849 was Romanesque in style.  The tower was supposed to be a four-storey but the construction was stopped because of a storm and earthquake.  ...

One cloudy early morning, we drove down to the southwestern countryside of the island. What do you expect of me on a trip like this? Of course, nothing else ~ but take as much pictures as I can ~ I thank you God for this most amazing day,  for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,  and for the blue dream of sky  and for everything which is natural,  which is infinite,  which is yes.  ~ e.e. cummings There is one spectacle grander than the sea,  that is the sky;  there is one spectacle grander than the sky,  that is the interior of the soul.  ~ Victor Hugo I  cannot get  that beautiful afternoon  out of my head,  above me where I lay  the grass was silhouetted  against the blue of the heavens,  small clouds were rushing past  as the wind drove them  on an endless journey.  ~ Julia Lee-Booker Gray skies are just clouds ...