After accomplishing my goal of visiting all 195 UN-recognized countries, I’m now embarking on a new long-term mission—to explore every city and municipality in the Philippines. No matter how many ...

The capital of Batanes Province is Basco and is under Region II which is 860 kilometers north of Manila. Basco is on Batan Island. Batanes is the only province in the Philippines declared in its ...

Signal No. 5 was hoisted over Itbayat and Basco as the typhoon brought “violent conditions” while passing close to Batanes. The rest of the province was on Signal No. 4. Leon carried with it ...