Celeste Makati
02 San Lorenzo Drive,, cor A. Arnaiz Ave Makati, National Capital Region, Luzon, Philippines
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Chinese Cemetery...
... Creepy. Only Chinese are allowed to be buried in this cemetery. It also contains many killed during the 2nd World War. Lots of memorials honoring Chinese and Filipinos with anti-Japanese language inscribed in the walls. I paid a guy 250 pesos to take me around. He took me to the plots of the rich, plots for babies without parents, and plots whose relatives come on the weekends to party.
On my way back to the hotel, ...
Greetings from Manila!
... were at least 7 different outfit changes that I witnessed (keep in mind I slept for half the flight). We drank enough wine to become tipsy then drift off to sleep. Elsa suffered through the annoyance of a little Asian girl sprinting up and down the aisle of the plane continuously for at least 25 minutes. Other than that, I ate too much airplane food and my legs were really numb from sitting.
Also worth mentioning, ...
Welcome Back to Southeast Asia!
... the evening drinking free wine and chatting with people from England, Holland, Mexico, Cuba, the U.S., and Australia. This in when I said my second “Welcome back to Asia!” to myself – oh how easy it is to forget how much I love travelling this continent! Moreover, the next day was Philippine Independence Day, and there were fireworks going off all over the city. At around 10pm, a big group of us decided to head out. We stopped at a sushi place for those of us ...
US Embassy
... the window, swore that the form I filled out was true, had it stamped, signed, and I was on my way. The guy from Utah was still there, awaiting yet another opportunity to repeat his story to a hopefully more sympathetic ear. I hope he made it through -- he seemed like a really nice guy getting screwed even though he did his best to follow procedures.
Afterward, we took a taxi to China town to visit a jeweler that Marycel had put down ...
Tsunami & the end
Taxichaffören byter plötsligt radiokanal till lokala nyheter. Filippinerna har för några timmar sedan fått en tsunamivarning och taxi för taxi får miljonstaden info om att en katastrof skett nånstans. Människorna rör sig lugnt, mammorna bär omkring på sina barn (barnvagnar existerar inte), åldringar sitter hemma eftersom de aldrig lämnar huset och männen sitter på gatorna - hälften av staden skulle säkert aldrig få veta förrän vågen slår till här också. Är det Japan, här ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Celeste



