Manila Trip

The flight to Manila is about 3.55 hours!!! It was so tiring as the Airasia's seat unable to recline that much and the legroom were so narrow. I was thinking to get myself to seat at the emergency row but it was taken by others. *sigh*

The flight arrived into Clark Field at about 11.00am and we were queueing for the immigration for nearly one hour as they are only 04 counters opened, 02 counter for Philippines Passport Holder and another 02 counters for foreigners... Right after the immigration, we'd claimed our luggage and here we go.. Manila !!!

Right before the exit door, there are counters selling bus tickets, and taxi. We bought bus ticket to Manila at PHP 300 one-way. This is non-stop bus service from Clark Airport to SM Megamall A and back to its Terminal at Pasay City. The bus journey takes about 1.5 hours but due to the stupid traffic in Manila, we reached SM Megamall A at about 2ish...

From there, we took taxi back to hotel. We've got conned!!! It was just a short distance away, it costed us PHP 1000!!! The taxi driver told us that it was the standard rate from Mandaluyong to Makati. *wtf* Well, if you ever go, tell them to use meter. It's 4 times cheaper if you were to take a meter taxi.

After checked-in to hotel, we walked out to have our late lunch. We walked along the Makati Avenue. Here we found one Chinese Fast Food--Chow King along the road. We had our lunch here. It wasn't taste good either, my wonder why so many people dine-in...

After that, we walk down to Ayala Triangle--Manila Financial District Area and to Greenbelt. We did a lot of walking and kinda tired as we do not have a good sleep the night before that. So we decided to have our dinner at Greenbelt 3 and head back to hotel.. another long walk...

The next day, we had breakfast at hotel and heading to Intramuros -- the old capital of Manila. We walked and visited the Rizal Park Monument, Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church, Manila Cathedral, Rizal Shrine and Casa Manila. Thereafter, we walked to United Nation LRT station to take LRT to Edsa station, and it was only PHP 15 one way. We thought of walking to Mall of Asia, without releasing it was pretty far !! Indeed we took a Jeepney there, and it cost PHP 7.50 only...

We shopped and we walked around Mall of Asia, it was the 4th largest shopping mall in the world. Evening, we had dinner and thought of going to the Manila Casino, it's somewhere near to the airport. But the taxi driver do not know where's it and he doesn't speak well in English and we can't communicate !!! The stupid taxi driver keep saying that he know where's but indeed he doesn't and he brought us to another smaller casino just within to walkin distance from Mall of Asia, and we had to pay PHP 150 for the fees ! Real stupid taxi driver. *aaarrrrggghhh*

to be continued...