The Peninsula Manila

Vietnam sits on a peninsula in southeast Asia right between New York and Asheville. We've heard a lot of great things about it, so on our way between these two wonderful cities, we thought we'd visit Hanoi for six months. This is our trip...

Syntymäpäiväjuhlat maailman laidalla.

traveling east and only east, well of course with a few backtracks. Plan to hit England, jersey, Iceland, Berlin and Potsdam, Poland, prague, Venice, Bucharest, Istanbul (as a base for changing planes), Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Qatar, Australia, Fiji, ...

Follow me in my trips as I take my vacation leave starting Aug 1, 2008. This time I am travelling alone sans mi amor, Leticia, who is now suffering from separation anxiety. Don't worry my love, i'll be back soon. I just need to get away from the stress of ...

This trip has been two years in the making to help Barb celebrate her retirement in April 2010. We're using American Airlines frequent flyer milage and planning the trip ourselves. Many people throught we were sailing....NOT!!!!

... travel agency and they came up with this route: Sweden (Stockholm) -> Thailand (Bangkok) Thailand (Bangkok) -> Philippines (Manila) Philippines (Manila) -> Japan (Tokyo) Japan (Tokyo) -> Mexico (Cancun) Mexico (Cancun) -> USA (Miami) USA (Miami) ...

Rishikesh, India to learn yoga and deepen my meditation skills. Nepal and Tibet for a fun overland trip in a ancient land. Beijing, China, well because I love China. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand for a ...

South America, in the southern part of America, sits entirely in the Western Hemisphere, and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with about a quarter in the Northern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by ...

... the senate ever since from jail, was in court for whatever reason. He and his "friends" walked out of court and took over the Peninsula Hotel. This is a very fancy hotel in Makati, the business center of Manila. It is also the hotel I stay in when I am ...

... bashing the yanks at Pearl Harbour then landed at Luzon island and drove the Filipino and US troops to the Batan Peninsula, opposite Manila, where 75,000 troops from US and Philippines surrendered to the  Japanese. From 1942-1945 a brutal Japanese ...

... Japanese declared war on the US by bombing Pearl Harbor, the Philippines became their next major target. On the Bataan Peninsula, local and US forces were defeated by invading Japanese troops and the entire nation fell under Japanese control, prompting ...

... advantage for over three hundred years was that it guarded the only sea entrance to Manila bay and Manila City.  Just to the northwest lies the Bataan peninsula and to the south the greater Luzon Island.  In early 1942, General Douglas Macarthur ...

Our briefest stop lasted about as long as one of Don King's events.  We arrived in time to have a brief stop at the hotel lobby bar and go to bed.  I had another chance to drink some San Miguel- the local beer of the Philippines.  The ...

... of the Swallows) (Kùutsmil in Modern Maya) is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is one of the eight municipalities (municipios) of the state of Quintana Roo. Cozumel is a ...

... stay the weekend in the hotel I had booked. She was very happy to.  So the rest of my first weekend in Manila was hanging around the peninsula hotel with my companion. It was that enjoyable I best not write about it. On Monday though I had decided to ...

... who fell and could not rise, were simply bayonetted where they lay. In a little village at the tip of the peninsula we hired a small motorized outrigger canoe to take us across the two miles of sea to the island of Corregidor.  There was a ...

... Harbor the Japanese began an attack on the Philippines. Douglas MacArthur fought a defensive battle all the way down the Bataan peninsula from where he retrenched on Corregidor. The Japanese General Homma was ordered to, and said he could, take the ...

... time, eating and drinking lethargically while watching big ships making their way across the waters between us and the Bataan peninsula, which separates Manila Bay from the South China Sea Manila Bay is considered to be one of the best natural harbours ...

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