Take My Picture, Please!
BAGUIO CITY – Her name is
Ina Ubayyen and she claims to be 100 years old. She smokes her native
tobacco as she waits for the next tourist to either to take her picture or
rent her highland head gear for a photograph for only P5 ($0.09).
Setting up shop in
front of the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto here (246 kilometers from Manila),
she hopes that her “business” peaks from Christmas to summer even if the
dire economic situation seems to discourage most Filipinos from
vacationing at the country's so-called summer capital.
Photo by
Ace Alegre / Bulatlat
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