la consolacion collegela carlota citynegros occidentalphilippines our beloved city if you haven't been to la carlota in a long while, coming home again will be a nostalgic trip to the past. you will find that a lot of things have changed - the old tiendahan (market) is gone, asphalt roads have been replaced with concrete, mga basurahan (waste receptacles) can now be found in every street corner, ang mga kalog (canals) have been covered, rows of flowering shrubs now welcome you into the city... and yet somehow it is still the same old la carlota we always knew and loved. here are some pictures taken during our '98 and '99 visits. 'hope you like them. and they take you back home... ~*~ saturday is market day... karnehan (meat market)... la paz street and tiangge ni tia luz fruit stands by the public elementary school... bantayan pa central yunque street: if there was a main street, this was it! yunque street burgos street burgos street on the road to pontevedra forests of guintubdan bananas and friends lush foliage, streams.. jang in guintubdan talamnan (rice paddies) in bario ayungon fresh water pond in las olas, san enrique symbol of the city's new state of cleanliness and order gateway into and out of the city ogatis street.. the street where i grew up the other side of ogatis: where mennen still lives.. ogatis street viewed from the corner of burgos street.. lechon! the right way to do it carabao sa araal bulubitoon beach sugar cane and mt. kanlaon rice fields and mt. kanlaon