Amorsolo Mansion Manila
130 Amorsolo St., Makati City Manila, National Capital Region, Luzon, 1229, Philippines
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Growing Gills in the Philippines
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Our first stop was north of Manila to a town called Batad, home of the UNESCO ancient rice terraces. We headed up to the town of Banuae on an overnight bus and were lucky enough to bump into some people at breakfast who had hired a guide and transport to Batad that day. They kindly let us tag along on their trip so that we were back in time to catch the night bus back to Manila the same day. Not the best 2 nights of sleep we have ever ...
Metro Manila
As our flight isn't until 11pm there was no sense in us checking out any earlier than than was absolutely necessary. We did however need an activity to fill our entire day. Thankfully Charlotte had heard about a weekend market which is the biggest in Asia. Markets are pretty standard but this sounded like it wasn't just your usual wooden frog kinda place.We both woke up with what is either really bad colds or we are just run down. Given we were drinking last night ...
How to (Almost) Lose Your Mind in 74 Days
... so much about you are prepared for a let down, but if anything it ends up being even better than you could have expected. When I initially walked through the gate I thought, "Damn, that is one good looking building" but typically there's only so long I can look at something before I start thinking "Okay, I've seen it, let's go". But I just kept staring at it, and when I'd started to walk away I kept turning around to stare at it one more one more time.
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Around Manila
for the moment I do not like this chaotic city, with crazy traffic, rather dirty, noisy, with the air unbreathable, and many poor people around, people living on sidewalks, even with people who wash themselves with wastewater, dirty children and many beggars, mostly women with babies in their arms
next to this misery, there are skyscrapers and luxury hotels and a lot of people who try to find the money to survive
I took a jeepney from Mabini, ...
The thriller in Manila
... get me wrong bad things can and will happen here, thats more evident when you see that all the security guards are holding pump action shotguns!? yes really! so you do have to be on your guard but its mostly common sense, for example if your going to a bar at night and its half a mile away from your hotel its probly better to just take a cab, some streets are not well lit and you dont know the area so why take the risk? just be cautious and even ask people if you need ...


