Philippines

There I Was

by Mitja on May 21, 2011

During the past month Elysia has been hopping around for work — Philippines, Bangladesh, Thailand — and she has gotten in the habit of taking along her camera. I uploaded the photos but sometimes it is hard to figure out where they were taken.  Crowds of people in the streets, water buffalos by the side [...]

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Where In the World is Mitja Ng-Baumhackl?

by Mitja on November 17, 2009

I returned from the Philippines without any photos, figuring that I did not really need to document a dog-mauling but my dad snapped a few pictures the day after we left the hospital. Here we are, two brothers separated by 36 years but we have one thing in common.  A father who brought three plastic [...]

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Photo gallery from the trip to Cebu, Philippines

by Mitja on July 8, 2009

I finally culled down the photos from our trip to Cebu in the Philippines in May.  Many of the photos were taken around my dad’s house on the northern tip of the island. Click on the photo of the water buffalo to see the gallery.  (For a larger version of just the water buffalo — [...]

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Philippines Trip: Getting Around

by Mitja on June 1, 2009

We arrived in the Philippines on a Tuesday and spent a few days in Cebu City on Cebu Island.  My dad’s wife — aka the younger sister I never had — met us at the airport and we took a cab to a moderate hotel where we met up with my dad.  It was my [...]

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