March 3rd, 2010 @ dann
Irony best describes the city of Makati. The greater outskirts are slums and derelict tenements, while the core is the financial center of the Philippines, a coat-and-tie district that includes some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, including the 60-storey PBCom Tower and the 47-storey G.T. International Tower. Shopping and dining The main thoroughfare, [...]
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March 3rd, 2010 @ dann
Muntinlupa or “Munti” has been synonymous with the New Bilibid Prison, the national penitentiary in the city where the country’s most notorious criminals are detained. The city, however, has been trying to shake itself off the stereotypes through world-class developments like Ayala Alabang, one of the largest and most exclusive villages in the country offering [...]
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March 3rd, 2010 @ dann
Called the “Fishing Capital of the Philippines,” Navotas is an important fishing community by the shores of Manila Bay. Around 70 percent of its population depends on fishing and other fishing-related industries for livelihood. Hence, unless travelers are interested to see how locals make fish nets or how fishing vessels come and go, there is [...]
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March 3rd, 2010 @ dann
A resident once said that in Malabon, there are more days with flood than dry land. It is because among the cities found in the sub-region of Camanava, Malabon is the one worst-hit by floods. Despite this, Malabon is even among Manila’s most densely populated areas. Tragedies seem to be an everyday piecemeal of people [...]
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February 26th, 2010 @ dann
Its location at the heart of Manila makes Mandaluyong a strategic post for SM Megamall, St. Francis Square, Shangri-la Plaza, and Robinson’s Pioneer, the shopping, café and dining centers that give rationale to Mandaluyong’s title as “the shopping mall capital” of the country. Transport hub As the center of mall culture and a melting pot [...]
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February 26th, 2010 @ dann
As compared to its neighbor Quezon City, Caloocan is just a backwater, with no attractions to brag about except for Monumento, a memorial designed by national artist Guillermo Tolentino. It marks the city’s historical importance as the place where national hero Andres Bonifacio and his underground organization, Katipunan, held their secret meetings that led to [...]
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February 26th, 2010 @ dann
The historically-significant Las Piñas City was occupied by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo during the 1896 Philippine Revolution and by the Japanese during WWII. But what really placed Las Piñas on the map is the 19th-century Bamboo Organ inside the Parish of St. Joseph. Built in 1824 by Spanish friar Diego Cera, the Bamboo Organ, made out [...]
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February 26th, 2010 @ dann
Manila, the capital, is an eclectic mix of colors and odors, both good and bad. On one hand, it is a photographer’s haven for its high-rise hotels and towers set against the scenic harbor and sunset of the Manila Bay. Traditional calesas (horse-drawn coaches) still clack their way through the narrow alleyways of Intramuros, a [...]
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February 26th, 2010 @ dann
The gateway to the lush countryside of the Sierra Madre and the pilgrimage site of Antipolo is the city of Marikina, accessible through the Santolan Station of the Light Rail Transit Line 2. Faithful to its stance as the “shoe capital of the Philippines,” Marikina is home to a once robust shoe-making industry, the Shoe [...]
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