Manila
17.01.2011 - 17.01.2011
Our second full day in Manila and I think that we are finally getting the hang of the traffic. We took an amazing taxi ride to the Mall of Asia, the taxi threatened to fall apart at any time, I think it was held together with sticky tape, however we did make it. The Mall was a little disappointing, I don't really know what I was expecting but it was a lot of shops just like home only on a larger scale, including an Ice Skating Rink, Imax theatre and normal theatres.
We decided to brave a Jeepney ride to get back to the hotel area. We were directed to a Jeepney that would take us part of the way and had to swap onto another one. We were a little nervous about how to brave the traffic to jump from one to another without getting run over or beeped too much!! The local commuters are really laid back using them. They jump on and then pass up from passenger to passenger the money to the driver, meanwhile the driver is making his way through traffic seemingly unaware of what is happening in the back but ready to put his hand up to receive the money while continuing through the streets. There really seems to be no road rules but they obviously have a set of their own as it seems really chaotic but there are rarely any accidents.
We had a pretty quiet afternoon and packed up ready for an early start tomorrow morning to Coron.
Posted by mike1967 18.01.2011 00:26 Archived in Philippines
