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... br> For main I ordered the bagnet with kamatis bagoong lasuna sauce for 430 pesos. Bagnet is basically deep fried pork, a Philippino specialty served with fish sauce. It tastes like the roast pork you get at Chinese BBQ restaurant. Tasty, but the fish sauce didn't work for me.
Walked back to the Bayleaf for my Calesa ride. The Calesa is a two wheeled carriage pulled by a single horse - in this particular case a small brown horse called Rambo. By now it was ...
The Mall
Went to the National Museum. They have great dioramas of the history of the Philippines. Each was numbered and gave a brief description of the event. Essentially a series of pictorial snapshops covering thousands of years of history. We are certainly seeing how much tougher it is to live in a country that has had centuries of oppression. Had a quick lunch in a Japanese lunch bar, really nice food and not ...
El guatazo de Manila
... isla en el sur de Filipinas) en 5 días más…entonces teníamos que rellenar igual 3 días…avemaría, a aguantar no más…
De los tours, aunque ya les dije que eran ridículamente caros (40 lucas por persona), hubieron dos bien valiosos para fotos: el del volcán Taal, donde fuimos a la cima de un volcán a caballo y el de Corregidor, donde MacArthur (se acuerdan de historia??…y volveré como MacArthur).
Del primero, dos horas de Manila ...
Day 2: Checklists
April 25, 2012
6:00 PM PHT (GMT +8)
Currently at the airport boarding gate number 15, passing time before I leave. I was packing all day (even last night) 'cos I'm so afraid that I'll be leaving behind something very important that would eventually spoil my trip. Like all my ...
Philippine fever!
... but I was totally wacked out from doing so. It was debatable whether the merits of eating a little were outweighed by the effort in making it!!
During various transient waking moments, I would pall at the number of days I’d spent doing nothing and not having moved on, but the fever was such that at that moment, I didn’t really care. Only on the third evening did one of the younger American girls asked if I was okay and/or if she could ...