Manila Trip (August 2008)

Last month, I was in Manila for a break over a weekend with my nephew. It was a short three-day trip, so there wasn't much time to do a lot. To make things worse, the weather was not so good. Apparently, August is the rainiest month in a year for Manila. Well, it rained almost every morning and night then.

Anyway, the trip was a trip for shopping especially for my nephew, so we didn't go to a lot of sites. However, we managed to visit Intramuros area and walk along the ocean boulevard the when the weather was good. Other than that, it was this mall and that mall. I also find the people beautiful. The only thing I didn't like was that almost everyone spoke to me in Tagalog, which I only know of a few words. More often that not, I had to say that I am a Malaysian to each one of them.

Based on my trip, I'm definite that I'll visit the Philippines again. It's a good place to shop (at least Manila) and I know there are a lot of interesting places to visit among its over seven thousand islands. By the way, I can now add another country to the list of countries that I have visited. And, I also managed to visit another world heritage site, one of the baroque churches of the Philippines, the San Agustin Church of Manila (in Intramuros).

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