Category: travel

quiapo

Post author By mike
Post date 7 April 2010
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I found myself with some downtime earlier today and took the opportunity to visit Quiapo, known for its sprawling markets and back-alley bazaars, and explore Hidalgo street, itself known for having a ton of camera stores and bargains galore. Read more [...]

Tags hidalgo, manila, markets, quiapo, tiangge

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adjustments

Post author By mike
Post date 5 April 2010
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Day One of my trip is officially over, and I think I'm no less thrown for a loop for it. Partly because, as expected, the landscape has changed so dramatically in the last decade, but more because I have. I've been gone so long, I've forgotten all about what it's like to live here. Read more [...]

Tags changes, culture shock, pasig, philippines

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homecoming

Post author By mike
Post date 4 April 2010
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A little over an hour or so until we reach NAIA; part of me still hasn't fully grasped that I'm on my way home. I know it, of course, the same way you know that the childhood home you revisit isn't going to be a hundred feet tall. But you don't really know it until you actually see it and your brain finally puts it all together. Read more [...]