Manila Cathedral

After breakfast and team meeting we are picked up by BJ, Melody Kennedy, and two other youths from Faith Fellowship church, Kako and Brent. Today it has been arranged that we will see old Manila. We drive for almost two hours to reach the very centre of Manila. Street cleaners dressed in pink T-shirts and hemet-type-sun-hats wear masks because of …

Many people warned us about Manila, saying that the city is a dangerous place. I would not deny the fact that there are indeed crimes happening around the city, but we didn´t see anything of that.

The beauty of the city has probably 2 faces: some places are filled with garbage, crime, poor people, etc... but we were very lucky to see …

Luego de estar en la modernidad misma en Malasia y de disfrutar el último día rodeado de cámaras fotográficas, notebooks de última generación y muchos otros adelantos, nos fuimos a Filipinas. Era el destino que habíamos elegido por sobre la India, pensando en que cuando fuera la fecha de ir para allá, estarían en monzón…y ríos de mierda con …

So it was running time again and I decided to run the trail along the Pasig river. Which started off smooth but of course started playing up mid route. I find that some of the streets in Manilla have no side walkways, so you actually end up running alongside the local traffic. Rocky Balboa did not have to go through this surely? Anyway I also took …

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For our last full day in Makati City, we hired a driver to take us around and see some sites. When you leave the business area of Makati City, you see the poverty that many people endure. We saw families living on the street, babies sleeping on a blanket on the sidewalk, mothers washing their toddlers on the street with a bucket …

Intramuros: A Walk Through Time

It's Saturday noon when Macoy, Arnol, and I started walking around the walls of the historic Intramuros. Our jump of point was the Baluarte de San Gabriel in front of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Muralla St.

This Baluarte was built in 1593 while the adjacent college started as an orphanage in …

A hot Saturday afternoon turned adventure culminated our Introduction to Archaeology class with Sir Angel Bautista as he toured us to the archaeological sites in Intramuros, Manila.

The class composed of Ma’am Jane, Miss Min, Bryan, Sandra, Wilson, and I met in front of the historic Manila Cathedral with the recently-restored …

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Today we woke up at around 8 AM. We decided to take a taxi to the Manila Ocean Park. When we got our taxi, it turned out that our driver was also a guide, and he spoke good English, so we decided to hire him. He would take us to different places in Manila for the day. Our first stop was the Manila Ocean Park, a 45 minute drive from our …

It's an interesting and unique way to go around the historic walled city of Manila! The guides were thoroughly helpful and friendly as they taught me how to ride the segway and in assisting through bumps and steep roads. Super safe and fun! Then I had some merienda at the hotel and the food was great, as was the accommodating staff! Take a late …

... look around, would have been good to have had one more day there.  Went to the shopping mall as they are big in Philippines, they have the 3rd biggest one in the world! Had a look round, didn't buy anything.  We went to look for something ...

... . After lunch, Alex & Bryan took us to Pasig, one of the other cities that makes up Metro Manila. While we were there, we went to a Roman Catholic Cathedral, which was so amazing and interesting, and then to the wet market. The wet market is where ...

Manila, Philippines - The night bus arrived somewhere in the large urban sprawl of Manila at 4am. I managed to share a taxi with the dutch guy and a couple of Korean girls. I tried to get a room at Melate Pensionne but after charging my itouch, jumped ...

... ; the dress, the ceremony, the atmosphere,... very strange - again I didn´t had the feeling I was at the Philippines. Further we visited Manila Cathedral, Rizal Park, Roxas Blvd and watched the beautiful sunset at Manila Bay. In the nighttime we ...

... that is within an ancient wall.  Here we stopped and viewed the inside and outside (this time) of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Manila.  Old and pitted on the outside and serene on the inside, we quietly viewed the church from the back as ...

...   M A K A T I Greenbelt Glorietta Landmark SM Makati M A N I L A Rizal Park Fort Santiago Intramuros (The Walled City) Manila Cathedral   Manila Bay Sunset Manila Ocean Park Star City Amusement Park Mall of Asia T A G A Y T ...

... is still intact and operating since the cathedral closed for renovations. It's also the first stone church built in the Philippines. Like the cathedral it's had a fairly hard life - destroyed by Chinese pirates in 1574, burned to the ground in 1583, ...

Our first stop on our 6-week tour of Southeast Asia landed us in Manila, The Philippines, at the lovely home of Reena Ermitano. Reena, a former classmate of Jill's at Columbia, showered us with the hospitality Philippino's are known for. She arranged ...

... the bombing of World War 2.  Not far from this church we came across some more famous sites.  First was the Manila Cathedral which was destroyed several times, and last built in 1951, even though it looks like it was built several hundred ...

... this architect's point of view, about old churches (San Agustin Church and San Sebastian Church in Manila, Basilica Minore del Santo Nino in Cebu, Baguio Cathedral, the churches of Bacolor and Guagua in Pampanga, and the churches of Sariaya, Lucban and ...