Country Info
- Manila
- Capital
- Philippine Peso (PHP)
- Currency
- 82,841,518
- Population
- PH
- Country Code
Philippines Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Philippines
Don't trip over the coconut...
This is a top pick! ... our windows wound up, avoiding the noxious clouds as best the air filter could manage. Traffic jams in the Philippines are like nothing I've ever experienced. The predictable unpredictability was quite refreshing after the logic-defying Korean habit of ...
Manic Manila
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Island Life
This is a top pick! On occasion, you take a picture and the light is just how you'd like it and the subject comes out perfectly...this picture represents island life here in the Philipiines to me - the beauty of the islands is seen in the mixture of color and light and ...
Searching for Sharks and Seahorses
This is a top pick! Following a recommendation from some friends of ours we headed out to Malapascua Island, which is off the north coast of Cebu Island. The island has lovely white sand beaches and clear waters and is famous for the regular sightings of Thresher Sharks. ...
Rainy Beach Paradise
This is a top pick! By just about any measure, Boracay is the number one beach destination in the Philippines. Although we’ve developed a certain beach expertise (and I think we still have that beach walk swagger) from our stay in the south of Thailand, we were heading ...
Madness in Manila
This is a top pick! ... it was raining and was very muddy so we visited a bar instead with some Cebuanos we had met at the concert. The Philippines is great so far - a little crazy but very very friendly people and we are looking forward to exploring this interesting country ...
An exercise in sun avoidance
This is a top pick! ... we were getting to the critical stage of replanning. Anyway the planning took up most of the day. We booked more flights around the Philippines which the cost of some were a set back also the change of timing has meant we are missing out on possibly two ...
8th Wonder of the World
This is a top pick! The bus from Manila was an overnight ride combining a bump-filled winding road and thwe worlds greatest AC, as we all practically froze throughout the 9 hour journey. I sat next to a Balgian girl named Karolyn and we talked and suffered and bumped ...
There and back again...
This is a top pick! The first time the rooster crowed it was 3.30am. The second time it was 4 am. The third time was when I vowed to order man-chook for breakfast. Despite my resolve for a vengeful breakfast, my stomach was decidely uneasy after the stress I had put my ...
A quick walk around Puerta Princessa
This is a top pick! From what I gather no one tried the door in the night so that was a relief. We got up at about 9am and had breakfast of poached egg on toast over which we tried to hatch a plan for the day. We settled on the idea that we would take a tricycle in to ...
Exciting Reports of Changed Lives
This is a top pick! Hey There Everyone, These past couple of weeks since we returned to ministry have been amazing. We have done many programs, and have seen god working in the lives of the people here. This past week we went to the Univerity of Assumption which has ...
San Fernando Ministry - End of Week 3
This is a top pick! ... in the world. -Manila is the text message capital of the world, with millions of messages being transmited each day. -The Philippines has approximately the same population of Canada, but in a much smaller space. -San Fernando is the Parol (Christmas ...
River Swimming and the oldest and smallest primate
This is a top pick! ... rest – TRUE!!) And the second is the domestic house cat) there are now only 1000 left in the wild in the Philippines and although not yet on the endangered list they may soon face extinction if they are not closely monitored. We took a ...
Crater Swim
This is a top pick! Prior to it's eruption in 1991, Mount Pinatubo was a relatively obscure mountain covered in dense forest and inhabited by several thousand indigenous people (who had fled there to escape the conquering Spanish)- it had no recorded history of volcanic ...
The hills are alive with...chocolate??
This is a top pick! We slept in again, ahh this is the life, and then we rented motorbikes to ride around the islands and go see the Chocolate Hills, a unique terrain of 1200 coral and limestone mounds that literally pop put of a relatively flat area and are generally ...
Ohh, the life of Brian
This is a top pick! The road we're traveling on is about 12 feet wide and had two-way traffic. As we are returning to Tagbilaran, Brian manages to locate the only 9 inch pothole in that road and crash his motorbike into it! I'm cruising down the road and change lanes to ...
Looking for the little Tarsiers...
This is a top pick! ... village by day and sunbathing on the beautiful beach was the order of the day. By night, as with most places in the Philippines, it transforms into a host of kareoke bars and after lots of cheap beer even we ended up taking our turn to sing. Madonna's ...
Molotov Cocktail: Shaken and Stirred
This is a top pick! We had been told that Manila on New Years Eve was like being in Beirut, circa 1985. We thought this was an over exaggeration, but NYE came on with the deafening roar of a war zone and the stench of sulfur exploding in the air as the locals warmed up for ...
This is the mother funchen life - Lady E
This is a top pick! What a great nights sleep!!! I woke at about 7:30. Our boat was leaving at 9 so I did my washing. The day before when the little girl was being sick a smell on the bus made me also feel sick. This morning I realised that smell was me not the sick. It ...
Keep your cock away from me
This is a top pick! ... actually felt fortunate that I had actually woken up and not drowned in the night. Note to self: When holidaying in the Philippines on a budget in May, always, always, as air conditioning is well beyond your price range, INSIST on a large fan ...
I shit you not another sea snake
This is a top pick! ... in it. Well in Europe to quote the Streets the two biggest narcotics in European society are Christianity and Alcohol, in the Philippines its Catholisism and basketball. Lots of houses that could barely fit 3 or four people blasting the tunes from large ...
A Country for Old Men
This is a top pick! ... table I jumped at the opportunity. "Pecker performance enhancing drugs have sure taken their toll on the young women of the Philippines,” I said. “You shouldn't jump to conclusions,” the man responded, “most of these older guys you ...
Cancun of Asia
This is a top pick! Boracay is an island in the west of the Philippines and is THE beach destination in the Philippines. They say when you meet any Filipino they will always say "you must go to Boracay". So, I flew off to Boracay from Cebu on a tiny little bubble of an ...
San Fernando Ministry - Week 2
This is a top pick! Magandang Araw!!! Kamusta Ka Yo? (Good Day!!! How is Everyone?) Well, we have had an absolutely awesome first week of ministry, and we are really excited as we go into the second week. On Monday, we went to Zoobic Safari Park, where we got to ...
The Tarsier
This is a top pick! The tarsier hunts by night. It can pounce on its prey from a distance of five metres. I looked into its almost human-like eyes, then at Ellen's; same size, perhaps the creature's a bit lighter. It was daytime and we'd awoken it. Earlier, we'd ...
Oh my god a good nights sleep
This is a top pick! I had had the worst night's sleep. Not only was it unbearably hot to the point that I considered trying to sleep in the hammock in the restaurant (only to think better of offering myself up on a plate to all the ravenous mosquito’s), but the new ...
Manny and Danny and Mandy and Jackie
This is a top pick! ... best boxer in the world. Because of his already lengthy career, Manny is probably wealthy enough to buy a good part of the Philippines outright. Maybe a Canadian or two also. In the mid 70's Canadian singer-songwriter, Dan Hill worked as a summer student ...
Hey, We made it to Manila.
This is a top pick! ... , and the public transporatation is mainly Jeepneys and Tricycles. We then went to a prayer meeting, with all of the SEND missionaries in the Philippines, but we were very tired, because we had not slept in 36 hours. On the way to the prayer meeting, we ...
The most organic and natural travel experience
This is a top pick! ... else Manchester is famous for, in China, Russia etc we are famous for football, in India it was cotton mills, in the Philippines, Manchester who, ahhh Ricky Hatton”). Fair play to Ricky he has given the Philippines a lasting memory of how nice ...