A year after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Eastern Visayas region in the Philippines, life seems to have returned to its normal pace.
In Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit areas, traffic jams are back, small grocery stores and stalls have reopened next to fast food chains, major infrastructure, buildings and roads are being rehabilitated. However, at nights you still get this eerie feeling walking on the dark streets where stray dogs sleep next to piles of cartons and rotten vegetables. Electricity has only been restored to about 40 percent in the city.
The road to recovery is not an easy one and the scars of the disaster are still vivid.