There are a couple of truths that we’ve confirmed as we grow older. Work, for instance, becomes a chore without fun. People are also more productive when they are having fun. Well, at least that’s what we believe. A month ago since we opened our instagram account, we did not anticipate how fun it is to look at photos of the Philippines snapped by fellow wanderers. We get the occasional fun puzzle of looking at photos which look similar, like that memory game of flipping over cards and matching the same photo. Take, for instance, the photo of Gisela (itsgisela_) who is comfortably sitting in the MIDDLE of the road with this caption “relaks lang, darating din ang bus.” Another one of the wonderful buwis-buhay fun selfies, we thought (don’t be fooled, however, in thinking that there are no vehicles passing this way…this is a road in Oslob, Cebu, now a busy place because of people wanting to see the butanding). Look at this photo (click photo to enlarge):

Then we chanced upon a similar photo by jlouh and we thought, hey, this one looks similar to some other photo. It would have been very difficult to look for that other photo, with the millions of photos in instagram, but as fate would have it, both jlouh (her photo below) and Gisela_ (photo above) both tagged their photos with the hashtag #visitpinas. Voila! Found the photos! Fun, right? Amazing!

Photos reproduced with permission (thanks). [Tag your instagram Philippine travel photos with #visitpinas so we can track it down. Photos will be featured in this blog’s photo of the day and in instagram/VisitPinas. While we’d love to assume that tagging your photos #visitpinas is a form of consent, we always seek your explicit consent.]