Always strike green bamboo with a parang at an angle away from you. Meaning, if you are right-handed, slash to your right, away from your body.

If you can carry only one blade on your adventures, it may have to be the long knife, variously called the parang, machete, golok, kukri, bolo or several other names. The various names refer to ...

The song “Río Manzanares ,” for instance, written in 1958 by Venezuelan José Antonio López, tells of loss and longing for home, themes that many may not typically associate with the parang ...