Yes mam its the Phillipines! DAY 3 & 4

DAY 3

Okay I shall just stop procrastinating finish posting pictures of my manila trip! Guess I will put more pictures than words, lol easier for your eyes. It’s like 2.30 am now but NO I have to finish this blog post no matter what as I have many other things to post!

So the third day was another sight-seeing day, we will be going to see an active volcano inside a volcano. What….. haha yes that was my reaction when I heard that. But apparently it’s possible for a volcano inside a volcano to be formed when an volcano erupts. Okay whatever, honestly, I don’t really care about volcanoes -.- but it’s part of the tour we signed up for so we just went for it. lol

So it was a 2 hour drive to the destination, this is the volcano in the volcano from far! Lol okay I don’t think u can identify but anyway I like this shot :) 

Some plantation the car went past, pineapples? I am not too sure.

Tropical fruits, but ended up my mum bought a kilo of imported mangosteen. What the hell. Let all clap for her.

AH HA! Saw the volcano? It’s the one inside a volcano so at the place where I was taking the pic it was already a volcano. To get there, after a 2 hour drive, it’s another 2 hour boat ride that was the boat we sat. It was motherly hot and the sun was shining bright like a diamond that day -.-

Again, my generation Y peeps!With our hair all over our faces. 

So after the boat ride, we reached a small island where we have to rid a horse up the mountain to see the volcano. Actually it was quite fun as it was the first I ever sat on a horse. It was another 20 min on the horse back. It was real exciting but scary at the same time, both uphill and downhill, it was so steep. The whole journey up, I was so nervous that I was holding onto some small handle down tightly the whole time and all tensed up as I was afraid the horse I was riding will suddenly do stunts and I will end up flying off to nowhere and die in a foreign land. But luckily, the horse was damn obedient and steady the whole way up, though the journey was abit dusty and the sun is like trying to cook me. 

Taken on the horseback down, downhill was much better as I know that my horse, bronzo, is very steady so I was there taking pictures casually and even cam-whoring but the pictures suck so… hahaha actually I would say this horse riding thing is sort of the highlight of out manila trip as it was really special though a tiny bit dangerous but overall it was a good experience and program. 

Everyone in the tour group, on top of the mountain with the volcano in the volcano behind us! Lol Ikr, nth special -.- but its for the experience. Lol 

Me and mum with our horses! 

So that’s about half a day of our itinerary, after that we went to have lunch at the play where the boat service was provided. It was home cooked meal and it tasted quite delicious! Afterwards  we visited some local shopping centers hoping to be shop for sth but even though we visited a few of big malls in manila, there was nothing to buy so we sort of went back to the hotel early and rest as it was a tiring day! 

DAY 4

 So on day 4 we went to do some shopping in a shopping Centre call Greenhills , unlike things in other shopping malls, the things here were much cheaper and you can even bargain with the owners, though not much deductions but it’s definitely cheaper than those in the super huge gala shopping malls. I managed to get a few tops from there at a quite low price! At night, we went to a seafood market where u buy the seafood u want in the market and then u can go to any restaurants nearby and ask them to cook them for u! And it was pretty cheap.

As the picture shown above, we ate quite a lot of high class seafood, crabs , lobster, prawns, abalone and some clams plus other dishes like vegetables and pineapple fried rice! The total bill is onli 200 plus sgd. Yup cheap like mad! 

There was a Korean mart near the market and we couldn’t help ourselves but bought back popsicles for desserts! Most of them can’t be found in Singapore especially the banana milk popsicle! It was so damn yum! Look at all the happy face on in the picture! LOL

Finally tried their rice wine! It’s much cheaper there! Erm I tried a bit and didn’t want to touch it anymore, though the alcohol content is only like 15 %? But it tasted like it can corrode my stomach away! The after taste is damn strong; I wonder how Koreans drink it until so shiok in all those deceiving dramas. Liars.  Look at my friends face and you can roughly know how it tasted like! 

Couldn’t help it but I have to post this! Le wild mum on the horseback with scarf on her head, I don’t understand how she managed to pull through this style but it was freaking funny! HAHAHAHAHA

Our loots! Me, sis and mum! Food plus some clothing and etc. all I can say is they looked a lot but actually not really lol 

This is me with the cutie doggie in our hotel; he was so obedient and does not bark at all! So friendly and excited when u touch him!

Okay let me just briefly summarise my trip and end this post here and my eyelids are really really closing. Overall, this trip was fine. Yes fine, just fine. Honestly, the last min change of plan was damn sudden and our trip happened before we have too much time to think of what we wanted to do. Pity. I mean there’s no harm going to another country. And I have friends who are telling mi that I sld be happy as at least I am getting put of Singapore. So yea, I treated it as a weekend getaway. I sort of enjoy talking to the locals and being with them as they are real polite! Everywhere you go they will “hi mam and sry mam” u, yes even to themselves and u can feel that they are very friendly and pure just a look at their faces. Manila is not as dangerous as u all think. If you ask mi whether I would recommend manila to other tourists, I would say there’s more place to visit. So yea, here’s my 2 cents on my trip! Now I have to get to my bed! Byeee!