Rattan Bag in my City
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (137213)
Philippines
April 19, 2017 9:41pm CST
I am sure that you will be delighted to have a rattan bag. It is one of the local products in the Summer Capital of the Philippines. The size and shape vary from one design to another. It is native rattan bag that resembles a backpack. Most tourists from different places love to have one. If ever you visited my city, it is worth to have a rattan bag while on travel in the Philippines. I have this in the house if ever I will have short distance travel.
Image Credit: Shavkat
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22 responses
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
one friend requested me a bag similar to this. i had to ask a former student, now a colleague, to buy one, and my friend can just pick it up in Manila. my friend said it was good.
i had to pay my former student with PhP500 through LBC.
latest i heard from this 'former friend of mine', the bag is already worn out.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
@ridingbet if the rattan backpack was 480 before and you paid 500 via courier (LBC), that would be almost 1000 pesos (20 dollars).
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
@Shavkat really, you can buy me one? can you send me how much is one bag like the one you posted here? the bag my former classmate bought was worth PhP480. it was a small size but it was a backpack.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
that's exactly how my mother used it when we still had that rattan backpack. she would put food in it when she traveled back to her hometown.
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@Shavkat (137213)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
@hereandthere It is nice that your mom use this before. Is she from Baguio?
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@funkeyguhl (1743)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
It's a cool thing to have though I have never owned one 
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@funkeyguhl (1743)
• Philippines
20 Apr 17
@Shavkat Is this only found in Baguio only? It just made me remember the big native box used as a luggage before, do you remember? I guess that is sturdier compared to the boxes now LOL!
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@Shavkat (137213)
• Philippines
21 Apr 17
@funkeyguhl I haven't seen the luggage type.lol What year is this?
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
20 Apr 17
You would pay a high price for this kind of bag over here Shavkat.
It is really a lovely handcraft of the locals there.
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@Shavkat (137213)
• Philippines
21 Apr 17
@TiarasOceanView I agree. If you have the chance, you can visit my country in the future.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
21 Apr 17
@Shavkat And hard to find that color and style..it is cheap crap online.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Apr 17
I would love one of those bags
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
21 Apr 17
I used to have one. Not the most comfortable bag but it is nice to own one.
Support local!
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@rebelann (111195)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Feb 20
The one in the photo is pretty. Do they come in different colors?
