Manila
We arrived in Manila at 1pm (after the stewards played a game in the plane, asking us to show objects to win prizes, funny) and we went to the bus station in town to buy a night bus ticket to go to the rice fields in the North. We thus had a few hours in Manila, so we decided to go to Intramuros, which is the old Spanish area with colonial buildings. Unfortunately most of the old buildings were not well preserved, so we visited a typical colonial house that is a Museum now: beautiful wooden furnitures and big rooms that showed the European style. Then we went to Rizal park where there was a spectacle of lights and music in the foutain in the middle of the park, very nice and surprising for a busy and polluted city like Manila. As we still had time to kill, we took a cab to the malls, and we discovered a very different city with lights everywhere, clean streets and huge modern malls with luxurious shops like Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci, and so on… That is where all the rich Filipinos and expats live and go out, far from the dirty and crowded streets. We ate pizzas and pastas (but a “chicken adobo pizza” ;)) and went back to the bus station to catch our night bus. Finally 6 hours were enough to see the nice areas of Manila, as everybody told us not to stay there as it is not safe and there are not so many things to do and see.
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