Anito Hotel Pasay
Travel Blogs from Pasay
Filipinos know how to laugh...
... are friendly, fast and helpful. We decided we had to pick a selection of bizarre foods for our first night and the staff got a kick out of our adventurous choices and me taking pictures of all the dishes before we started eating them. They started us off with Crispy Spiced Kamaru – an acclaimed delicacy from Pampanga...rice field crickets sauteed in tomatoes and onions...we both decided we had to try crickets cooked in a dish with ...
Filipino final farewells
... was some great work here, but I somehow never felt anything had really touched my soul.
After buying some fins ready for Indonesia (since Taiwan would be expensive), I got some last minute supplies and headed back to Ermita, where I had a couple of beers at a local roadside bar with some backpackers. Drinking really cheap Red Horse beer and watching others smoking really cheap cigarettes brought home how the Philippines are really great value for ...
Shopping Overload
... on my list of things to see before I die, so you can understand, I wasn't really up for seeing a megamegamall. But this is my mother's trip also.
MOA, about a 45-minute drive from Fort Bonifacio during traffic, is the world's 3rd largest mall in the world. It's got everything in it--well, almost. No ski/water park like Dubai. But it does have an IMAX theatre, an ice ...
1/6/2012
... Last night during talking, I came to find out that she was saved at the same English corner ( a casual get together, that happens regularly where chinese students can come practice their english with foreigners) that I attended a couple times with Jeremiah when he was living in Kunming, China. Pretty cool!
p.s. I plan on strapping on my Go Pro and shooting some video footage walking around the streets here. Stay Tuned.
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Rat Ta Tat Tat...
You will know what the title means in a bit. It's the monsoon season here so it's been raining off and on. I borrowed an umbrella from my roach motel so I could get some funds converted down the street. I went to the local Metrobank and was greeted by an armed guard wanting to search my backpack with a Harry Potter wand. If we had army personnel holding a shotgun, I bet there would not be any bank robberies in the US. What do you think? So no luck, ...