Squeezing in one more church into our Iloilo side trip proved fatal.
The blue hour greeted us as we alighted at the sleepy town of Guimbal in Iloilo to shoot another of the province’s iconic stone edifice, the 400-year old San Nicholas of Tolentino Church. The church however was closed, due probably to the relative lateness of the hour. It was almost seven in the evening and the streets were almost deserted and the shops almost ready to close. I guess the practice of going to bed early in small towns still hold true at Guimbal.
We contented ourselves in shooting the church façade. Guimbal Church’s yellow-tinted stone walls perfectly contrasted with the electric hues of the early evening. And as I was contemplating on shooting the cemetery right beside the church, the rain fell.
Five butt-numbing hours of bus ride from Caticlan, we finally alighted at batchoyland. We were thinking of hitting the churches of Iloilo; the ones in Jaro, Molo, Guimbal and Miag-ao. Unfortunately we ran out of time and was only able to check out the UNESCO World Heritage stamped Miag-Ao Church and almost didn’t get to Guimbal on time for the blue hour. This is the last photo I took today.