Philippines travel stories

White power

A couple more observations about Sulawesi that don’t fit anywhere else. First – and I may have mentioned this before - the place gives you a nice insight into what it would be like to be famous....

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Manila thriller

Manila is not much of a tourist destination. I knew this already, but hey, you live in hope. I mean, Phnom Pen is associated mainly with brutal genocide and mass graves, but nowadays it's a pre...

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Volcaned

We bounced into Legaspi's airport cum airstrip and I immediately thought, well, this is a bit more like it. The sun was shining, it was a scorcher (at 10am) and the volcano was looking fine. ...

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Slow Coach

With no volcano to climb and with the beauty contest but a lingering memory, there wasn't much to do in Legazpi. So I left in the most leisurely fashion possible. That is, I decided to get the ...

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Nice guys

The Filipinos are probably the nicest, friendliest people in South East Asia. Once shorn of the nutter at Marinduque's port I'd got myself a tricycle driver. We'd agreed a price and the...

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