So our next destination is The Mausoleum and Museum of Ferdinand Marcos. It's my 4th or 5th time I guess visiting this place. Even though I've been here a couple of times, it always seem new to me. Everytime I visit it, there are different new museums or places etc.

The Marcos Museum and Mausoleum integrates both memorabilia storage and the current resting place of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. It is situated in the heart of Batac, Ilocos Norte. The museum shows memorabilia of the late president, from his stint in the armed forces down to his presidency. The large and solemn mausoleum contains the glass-encased coffin in which Marcos' embalmed body has been on public display since shortly after his remains were brought home in 1993. (Wikipedia)

You can find Marcos' corpse in a glass coffin in an aircondtioned room. His body is preserved I guess for more than 25years because the previous administrations didn't allowed them to bury him in the National Heroes' Cemetery. His body look like a wax replica and we thought that his body's secretly buried already. But then, on our last visit, the tourist guides confirmed that it is his real body and they explained how many layer of chemicals is used to preserve his body. Cameras are not allowed inside he mausoleum that's why I wasn't able to take pictures there.

The pictures below are taken from the Gallery.

The following pictures are taken from the museum.

The newly-elected president Rodrigo Duterte plans to let Marcos be buried in the National Heroes' Cemetery. So my tip for you guys is visit the Mausoleum now before it's too late!

 

Summer is a period that a person spends away from home, school, or business usually in order to relax or travel. -Merriam-Webster Dictionary

It's summer time again! And for this summer, we decided to visit my mom's hometown which is Pudtol, Payao.

Since we rarely visit our province, We want to make the most out of it so we decidedto drop by tourist places we'll be passing by.

The first place we went is The Baluarte. It is owned by Luis "Chavit" Singson. It's in one of the top tourist attractions in Vigan.

Here you can find a zoo, a resort, a landscaped garden, a butterfly garden, a chapel and a lot more. Imagine how big this area is?

Since we don't have that much time because our relatives are already waiting for us, we only visited the mini zoo where you can find the private collections of Mr. Singson. Take note guys this is for free. Yeeey!

 

You can ride horses, feed birds, take a picture with a snake or with a parrot just like the picture above! We didn't roam around that much because it's 12noon and we don't wanna get toasted before we went to the beach. hahahaha. But seriously speaking, it's really hot and we weren't able to bring an umbrella. The place is really big, the animals aren't that close to each other so you need to travel by foot or ride a car that they've provided (I really don't know how it's called).

So my only tip for you guys is bring an umbrella, a handkerchief, a fan and ofcourse water to keep you hydrated.