Mt Pinatubo (Luzon)

Advantages: shopping, night life
Disadvantages: polluted,

...Manila, a city full of contrasts, from the rich beautiful buildings of its colonial past to the present day corrugated roofed patched wooden dwellings. Where child beggars turn up their dirty palms to shiny black Mercedes benz cars waiting at the traffic lights.Where it takes six months to get a phone line but one day to make a best friend. This is Manila, the capital city of the Philippines located on the island of Luzon. No review of Manila is complete without mention of Manila's traffic jams. If you think you have seen the worst of jams, visit Manila and you will change your mind. The city has had to come up with ingenious ways of reducing traffic, including barring odd and even numbered registered vehicles from entering the city on different days of the week. So, if your car registration began with a '6' for instance... Read review

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Advantages: Sights, trade, tourism, simplicity
Disadvantages: long trip, but worth it

..."Stairway to Heaven" the locals declare, and it has actually exixted for thousands of years created by the hands of local tribes people called the Ifugaos. Hailed once as one of the seven wonders of the world, visiting it left me thankful there are still efforts to preserve this legacy. Besides the fact the country's summer capital Baguio is close by, this area up in Luzon is a sight to behold. You can even get to see the life of the locals as they go about through the day doing chores the old fashion way and singing songs of praise to Bathala! Come taste the wide variety of traditions they got to offer here and, trust me, it is for real almost heaven.... Read review

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Advantages: Good weather, good accomodation
Disadvantages: The huts in the Mt. Cameroon could be better

...The Town Buea is a town that is located at the foot of Mt. Cameroon in Central Africa.Once you get into the country through the Douala international Airport, it takes about an hour of driving to get to Buea.It is located in the Anglophone part of the country so the language spoken there would be English.The town is the capital of the South west Province which is one of the ten provinces in the Republic of Cameroon.Moving around the town is quite easy for you could easily get taxi cabs and the roads are all tarred. If you are looking for some fun head down to Molyko, which is where the Buea University campus is located.The area is quite lively when students are on campus.In the evenings there are lots of places where you can get grilled fish with either fried plantains or fried potatoes.There are a lot of drinking places also around... Read review

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