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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 ...
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. ...
Advantages: True Story, good acting Disadvantages: John Wayne! dated effects
This film sees John Wayne leaving his cowboy films behind and playing the role of Colonel Joseph Madden. Madden is stationed out on the island of Luzon in the Philippians who are under attack from the Japanese. The film is set in 1945 during the second world war. Madden is told he must leave his men behind and go out to work with the guerrilla fighters who are going to help defend the Island. Madden meets up with some of the men and they set of to reach the oil field which they hold is not in Japanese occupation but along the way they find a work line which consists of hundreds of captured soldiers. Madden spots a Captain Andres Bonifacio and sets about breaking him free so that he can join them with their mission.
Madden soon learns that Bonifacio is not willing to fight as he believes that the love of his life is a traitor ...
