0500 – Reached Ohayami Terminal at
the Sampaloc in the early morning. The hostel that we booked is Wanderers Guest
House which is located at the Malate, Pasay. We cannot go there by taking the
transit as the big backpacks are not allowed to carry into the station. Hence,
we tried to go there by taking the jeepney.
We used the app called Sakay.ph to
find the jeepney route in the Manila. For this time, the jeepney that show for
the direction from Sampaloc to Malate is Vito Cruz. Hence, we took this jeepney
at the main road and cost PHP12/person. We successfully reached the Malate and
walked to the guesthouse. This guesthouse allow us to check in early as there
are many empty room available.
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| The Jeepney that have pull string for stop |
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| Tilapasilog PHP100 |
1000 – After bathed, we left the room and walked to
the Intramuros. The walk took about 20 minutes to get there. At the south
entrance of the Intramuros, there is a place where walking through the wooden
bridge to a old fort garden which is nice to take photo. In the Intramuros, the
most famous is the San Agustin Church which is built 400 years ago. There is a
museum inside but the admission fee is very expensive (Adult:PHP200,
Student:PHP160). Hence, we didn’t enter the museum. Continue walking towards
the north, the next famous place is the Manila Cathedral. We enter the
cathedral and saw that there was a wedding ceremony. Hence, we just sit inside
and chill awhile.
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| Intramuros South Gate |
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| The fort garden near the south gate |
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| The fort wooden door and bridge |
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| Moss at every stone of the fort and hence need to be careful when walking here as it is slippery. |
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| Calesa can be seen here. |
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| E-trike also |
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| The door of San Agustin Church |
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| This church was built by China worker and these two seem like Kirin |
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| San Agustin Church |
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| San Agustin Museum entrance fee is so expensive! |
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| The pumpkin shaped calesa |
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| Manila Cathedral |
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| Inside of the Manila Cathedral |
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| So many types and names of shell! |
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| Here sold quite expensive! The SM supermarket selling at PHP105. Hence, buying in Boracay is the cheapest. |
We continued walking towards north
direction and reached the Fort Santiago (Adult:PHP75, Student:PHP50). The visit
to this is quite worth as the complex is quite large. There is also a museum
that have a lot information about the Philippino Hero Jose Rizal.
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| A tired horse? |
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| Fort Santiago |
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| The combination of red brick and stone. |
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| The river near the Fort Santiago |
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| Dungeon which is closed for public today |
1400 – We had the lunch at the
Chowking. The next plan is just visit the SM Mall of Asia. To getting there, I
tried to find the route with Sakay.ph. This time I use another website that can
find jeepney route which is Tripbarker.com. Then I exit the Intramuros at the
northeast side and wait for the Baclaran-Escolta Jeepney. But there is no
jeepney writing the Escolta word. The jeepney that we found is only Divisora
and writing the SM City Mall. Hence we thought this is the jeepney that we
should take. Hence, we took it and only cost PHP8/person. But after the jeepney
travelled awhile, it stop and point to us that there is the way to SM City. We
didn’t see any SM word but only the jeepney. Then we thought is to take another
jeepney to the Mall Of Asia. Then we asked again another jeepney and take same
direction jeepney. However, this jeepney didn’t understand English much. Hence,
I just look at the offline map and prepared to call “Para Po”. We get off the
jeepney at the intersection of Roxas Blvd and EDSA. Then walked towards the
Mall of Asia.
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| Chowking sweet and sour fish Lauriat, PHP149 |
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| Chowking SuperSangkap Halo-Halo (Add-on Small), PHP50 |
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| The view along the route of the Intramuros Northeast side. |
In the Mall of Asia, we just window
shopping. We had our dinner early as there is firework show on every Saturday
7pm. We had dinner at Inasal which have free drinking water and soup. I tried
the pork sisig for the first time and it tastes normal to me.
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| Famous globe in front of the SM Mall of Asia |
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| Nice sunset view |
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| Inasal Pork Sisig with 1 Rice, PHP99 |
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| Inasal Chicken with 1 Rice, PHP99. Many people calling this chicken with Unli Rice which unlimited rice. |
1850 : We walked to the
entertainment area and waited for the Firework show. The firework started at
7pm exactly. The shows last for 5 minutes only. After that, we just walked
around the entertainment area and bought some thing in the SM hypermarket. To
go back to the hostel, the sakay.ph show another type of transport that can
travel with just one transport that there is no need to change another jeepney.
It was UV express which is a van and work like a air-conditioned jeepney. The
direction that we took is towards the Fairview. After get on the van, we paid
PHP40/person instead of PHP30/person that show in the app. The van dropped us
at the Pedro Gil station which we need to walked back for 10 minutes to reached
the hostel.
Expenses for two:
Jeepney from Sampaloc to Malate : PHP24
Breakfast : PHP200
Fort Santiago : PHP100
Lunch : PHP199
Drink : PHP75
Jeepney from Intramuros to Mall of Asia : PHP40
Dinner : PHP208
UV Express from Mall of Asia to Pedro Gil : PHP80
Accomodation : PHP790
Total : PHP1716
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