Manila is the capital of the Philippines and the second more populated city of the country. Manila is located in the island of Luzon and its a very big and beautiful city. Here you can found amazing and huge shopping centres with all the shops you can imagine and lots of restaurants and many activities for everyone.
Things to do in the city:
- Manila Chinese Cemetery: Is the second oldest cementery in Manila after La Loma cemetery and its know as "the neighbourhood of the death", this is because looks like a normal neighbour with normal houses but in reality are musuleums and was an interesting experience. Highly recommended hire a guide fro this place so he can tell you histories about the people who is there and all about the place, you can get them at the entry and negotiate with them accord to your budget. Very interesting as this musuleums are build that bog as they have kitchens, bathrooms, some other ones have bathtubs and cinema rooms for the people to go and visit their loved ones and stay there for the whole day.
- The dessert museum: A fun place for kids or sweet lovers. Pretty much an instagrammable space with lots of funny places to take photos and interact with all dessert themed.
- Venice Grand Canal Shopping Center: This shopping center is a must as it really look you tele transport to Venice in Italy, you can even get in a gondola a float around while a gondolier sign Italian songs to you.
- Tales of Ilumina: Another instagramable place in the city but it also tell you a lot of histories of the Philippine culture and myths of the country. There is also a culture show and off course lots of places to take cool photos.
Two hours away from Manila you can visit Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, which is an amazing historical resort where you can stay in one of the over 40 original Spanish-Filipino colonial houses!
A local, Jose Acuzar found these houses all over Phillipines, he transported them here and restored them back to original glory and now this is huge historical neighbourhood! The accomodation comes with a tour of history of where all this houses came from and their original owners and in general the history of Spanish culture in the country.