The seaside barrio of Nakamuan, Batanes is the only home Leila Beronque has ever known. Her 88-year-old mother still lives in the stone house Leila’s grandparents built. Believed to be the ...

Robredo said building traditional stone houses could be the long-term solution in Batanes that will protect residents from typhoons, which are now more common in the northern parts of the Philippines.

We visit an honesty café, a ship shelter that looks like something out of the Amalfi coast, and the oldest house in Batanes, an Ivatan stone house whose elderly inhabitant passed only recently.

Here are five things to check out in Batanes when visiting its islands. 1. Stone houses Batanes is often struck by typhoons, so the residents have strengthened their houses using stones, hence the ...

ITBAYAT, Batanes, Philippines — Built and designed ... so she dropped her plan for a sleepover at her partner’s stone house in Barangay Santa Lucia, formerly Kauhauhasan.

The Batanes Islands are almost as close to Taiwan ... whether pierced by a lighthouse or underlined by a row of stone houses. Best of all, you can indulge in the urge to burst into song.

Adami lives in a stone house in Itbud village in Uyugan, Batanes. Few of the iconic, centuries-old houses of the Ivatan people defy the elements and continue to protect them from the fiercest ...

For the tourism industry of Batanes, less is definitely more ... Village in Sabtang Island filled with the iconic Ivatan stone houses and the Alapad Rock Formations that serve as the background ...

While it’s tempting to snap countless photos of Batanes’ waving landscape and postcard-perfect backdrops, travelers should look beyond its Instagram appeal They say the third time’s the charm.

As a result of the temblors, a number of stone houses and the 19th century church of Itbayat town were either damaged or destroyed. The nomination dossier of Batanes has not moved for a long time ...

Simeon Hostallero counts himself as one of the obstacles to the dream of Batanes province to be recognized as a World Heritage Site for its famed stone houses here. He was the first in his ...

Here are five things to check out in Batanes when visiting its islands. 1. Stone houses Batanes is often struck by typhoons, so the residents have strengthened their houses using stones ...