After leaving the Philippines at age 6 to move to Canada, I am finally going back to my childhood home, and this time I am bringing my Canadian wife with me! I lived in Bacolod City as a child, and in this video we are arriving bblueack to Bacolod, Philippines, so I can show my wife where I grew up and reunite with my old neighbours and friends. Nicole has always been excited to see where I was born and spent the first years of my life, and I am eager to see what she will think of my childhood home in the Philippines.
In this video, we are traveling from Boracay Island to Bacolod City. The travel day is a long one, we had to take a tricycle, ferry, bus, another ferry, and a taxi to reach Bacolod City. Arriving to Negros Occidental (the Province that Bacolod City is in) immediately felt different. If you've been watching our Philippines series for a while now, you know that I don't speak Tagalog (the main language of the Philippines), but people in Negros Occidental speak Ilongot, one of the many dialects of the Philippines. As soon as we arrived to this new area of the country I was able to understand so much more of the language as this was the dialect I spoke when I was living in the Philippines. Sharing these experiences and my culture with Nicole is my hometown was a really exciting experience, and we are so glad we can share it with you in this video.
This is Nicole''s first time in the Philippines, so to be able to bring her back to my hometown and introduce her to the people there has been really fun. Most people who travel to the Philippines probably wouldn't be stopping in Bacolod City, but for us this city has a lot of significance. It is an interesting place to visit as a foreigner though because there are so few foreigners to this part of the Philippines that she really stands out!!
If you want to watch our whole journey through the Philippines so far (including when Nicole's parents came to visit us and spent 3 weeks traveling the country with us), check out this playlist! • Philippines Travel Vlogs
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== Chapters ==
0:00 A 100 Mile journey home
2:00 First impressions of Mico's hometown
3:16 We messed up...
5:39 Pretty sure this is the right community
7:55 Did we find it?!
9:55 An expected welcome
12:32 Mico really undersold this to me
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Hey there! We are Nicole and Mico and in March 2021, we quit our jobs, sold our belongings, and began traveling the world! We never thought we'd be making travel vlogs on RU-vid, but after realizing that we had a unique opportunity to share our adventure and make the world feel more familiar and inviting to anyone watching, we took the leap and picked up the camera! We hope our videos show how wonderful, delicious, and friendly the world can be.
27 июл 2024
