Browsing Tag »Day trip
March 25th, 2010 @
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Located mid-way to Araneta Center in Quezon City and to the countryside charm of Rizal, Riverbanks Center or Marikina Riverbanks takes pride of having the so-called first interactive science center in the country as well as to what Guinness Book of Records has certified as “the biggest shoes in the world.” This commercial complex may [...]
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Entertainment / Marikina City
March 24th, 2010 @
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Despite the fact that Makati Cinema Square (MCS) is just a stone’s throw away from bigger and more modern malls Greenbelt, Glorietta, SM Makati, and SM Mall of Asia, people—young and old, rich and poor, local and tourist—still flock here for good finds, cheap eats, and great value.
The cinema square with no cinema (Photo by [...]
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Entertainment / Makati City
March 23rd, 2010 @
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Sitting on the location of a former army museum, Market! Market! is a shopping mall and entertainment complex found at the end of the chain formed by the famous dining, shopping, and entertainment enclaves of The Fort, Bonifacio High Street, and Serendra. Found next to Serendra in Bonifacio Global City, Market! Market! offers low-end to [...]
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Entertainment / Taguig City
March 22nd, 2010 @
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Although far off from the rest of Manila, Festival Supermall and its adjoining Alabang Town Center are being visited by locals and some tourists for its attractions and entertainment facilities found nowhere else in the Metro. Among these attractions is the so-called biggest and longest indoor rollercoaster in the Philippines.
Alabang Town Center (Photo by MrLofi)
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Entertainment / Muntinlupa City
March 19th, 2010 @
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From a bastion of pickpockets and hooligans, Manila Baywalk is now a haven of leisure, where you can indulge in seaside jogging or dining as you watch people and yachts come and go. It is a cobblestone-paved lane, with benches and sculptures to stop by while sampling traditional Filipino street food like balut (premature [...]
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Entertainment / Manila City
March 18th, 2010 @
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If Bangkok has Chaktuchak and Kuala Lumpur has Jalan Petaling, Manila has Divisoria, the city’s bargain district dubbed as the “mother of all markets” in Manila for its wide array of marked-down and wholesale items, mainly pirated or smuggled goods from China.
(Photo by Frisno)
Divisoria is actually a Pandora’s Box full of garbage, crowds, chaos, pickpockets [...]
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Entertainment
March 18th, 2010 @
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At the side of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, bordering the Manila Yacht Club, is a walkway and restaurant row lined with coconut trees, swept by the sea breeze, and providing a picturesque view of the sunset and the yachts moored at Manila Bay. This enclave is called Harbor Square, considered by some as [...]
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Entertainment / Manila City
March 18th, 2010 @
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A district in Manila city, Ermita is located halfway between Malate and the old walled city of Intramuros. Before it became known for its motels, lodging houses, rooms for rent, prostitution dens and red light district, Ermita was a 16th century hermitage and a stage of war during the 1945 Battle of Manila. Ermita’s M.H. [...]
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Entertainment / Manila City
March 18th, 2010 @
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Tiendesitas, which means “a collection of little stores,” is created by the same group behind Greenhills Shopping Center to rival Chaktuchak market in Bangkok, Thailand. Straddling along C-5 road, Tiendesitas is a one-stop-shop for native food, traditional clothes, handicrafts, furniture, pets, novelty items, and other products that are made in the Philippines. It also showcases [...]
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Entertainment / Pasig City
March 17th, 2010 @
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Taguig city’s answer to New York’s Fifth Avenue is Bonifacio High Street, a 400-meter-long esplanade full of designer retail shops, diverse cuisine, and live street performances. Found at the heart of Bonifacio Global City, Bonifacio High Street aims to redefine the mall experience as “a walk in the park.”
(Photo by MrLoFi)
High life on the High [...]
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Entertainment / Taguig City