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And Then We Went To The Philippines
... sadness that there will be no massive gold things to look at here. Everyone we encounter speaks English with a weird American accent and the majority of signs are also written in English. The tuk-tuks have been replaced with the even more deadly tricycles and the red busses (sawngthaew) of Thailand are now crazy technicolour jeepneys. Everyone calls us Sir and Ma'am, which feels a bit strange. Our walk takes us down to the promenade where we sit looking out ...
Manila
... brim sitting in a little guard house nearby who I asked for directions to Fort Santiago. He pointed me in the direction of Plaza Espana and told me to turn left at Aduana and then right at General Luna.
Across from the plaza are the ruins of the old customs house (Aduana) which dates from the early 1820's. The guard told me it was destroyed by American artillery during the Battle of Manila in 1945. After the war it became the central office of the Bank of ...
The drive back to Manila
... seen us 'Americans' (or americanos in filipino) as a good way to make extra money. My dad paid and we drove off annoyed. In what country can you not even trust the police? If you can't trust them, who can you trust? Finally we got to the hotel. It was the same hotel we had stayed at earlier. My dad and Lukas took the car back to the rental place while the rest of us hung out at the hotel. What a long and stressful ...
El guatazo de Manila
... a las 6.30 AM!!!!!...
Ya a esa altura, decidimos irnos…por el barrio y por la atención…así que nos fuimos a Manila city muy temprano en la mañana, primero a conocer la ciudad y luego a ver donde nos quedaríamos en la siguiente noche, ya que esa nos quedábamos de nuevo en la población el cuco…
De Manila…allá vamos, partiendo por la caminata hasta el metro…eran las 10 am y ya era pelúo, gente sin polera, niños cochinos y ...
Walled in and chased by a tricycle!
... all) looking for those unique photo shots. To the rear of the area, was a small garden filled with Bonsai trees that someone had carefully and lovingly created over a very long period of time. What a treasure it was. Some of those creations were obviously decades old if not more.
Part of my explorations were in search of a way to photograph the wall and defenses from the outside. From my climbing around atop, I could ...