❝AT FOURTEEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE, The Philippine city of Vigan, a Spanish colonial heritage on Luzon Island, province of Ilocos del Sur, was declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1999. About two hundred "kalesas" Licensed, as I wrote, go up and down the historic center, but tourists, mainly national tourists, also use the ice cream carts for the road, here known as "sorbetes" (masarap in sorbets, tasty ice creams, with tropical flavors but without chocolate, what a crime) because the humid heat reaches to the point of burning you. Its old houses remind Spain from bottom to top and sometimes Filipinos miss prepositions, adverbs and "Sí, señor" (Yes, sir), all from when Spain ruled the sea.
El Luna Herald (in Tagalog), whose family was originally from Ilocos, gives name and prestige to many national establishments, and here, the hotel of the same name, offers you a pool and endless breakfasts.
Long cobbled streets, gates, curb wells, balconies and latticework, warehouses and looms, in their voices and in sight, are familiar. The "sorbetero" that appears further down in the photo (a term also in use, both in Iloqueño and in Tagalog) is in the typical position, here very common, square foot, flip-flop out, while, in the other image, at the door of the cathedral , a beggar boy eats the snot. Everything calmly, without haste●
The ice cream maker
The beggar boy
