I  flew on saturday from kalibo to Manilla. I set with alexis to meet us up at 5pm in Malate. He picked me up there, he was with his girlfriend. We went to AsiaMall to have a japanese dinner, Asiamall is a commercial mall. Manila has 3 of the 10 biggest malls in the world. IN that kind of mall you can go to the dentist, buy one house, get three yogurts, go clubbing....and even go to the sunday mass. Actually as said my friend, manilla has lot of commercial mall, it s a kind of oasis in the city and around the mall you have a fucking mess....and lot of poverty. It s almost imposible to walk in the street, it s a hassle to conturn the numerous obstacles. Moreover In ther mall, you find the aircom...pretty appreciable when it s around 30 degree all year long.

I stayed five days  with alexis, i had a great time, it was great to spend time with him and his girlfriend lauren. They showed me lot of things.

In Philipinne you can eat embryon, i mean just before the little chichen break the egg to go out, they boil it , so it s an egg but you can distingate the head from the legs.

In philipine has been influenced by different wawes...

- first spanish all the philipinos have spanish name...lot of lopez, garcia, gonzalez...

- second from the locals ethnics minorities, I met a guy a the street who wear a kind of string, this community still don t know the pans.

- third from the americans, you find plenty of fast food, donuts, jeepneys...

I experimented the philippino massage, after a while in the sauna and the steamer room...it s really relaxing. I ve been to tagaitale...its a volcano in the middle of a lake and int the crater of that volcano there s a lake. 

I stayed one night in puerto galera, i didn t like that place ...lot of prostitution, beaches was not excellent, the only good thing is that my room was just in front of the sea. From my bed I could see the boats thought the big window pane. After having one day in  different means of transports i reached to cataclan. From there, I took a boat to go to the main touristic spot in philipines, Boracai is a small island, full of hotel, resort...the beach there is....no  words.... a paradise (coconut, thin and white sand). I prefered to stat one night in caticlan to save money...there my room was philipinno standart (a hole for the toilets and a bucket as shower).

In kalibo  i m participating in a yearly festival....music, dress up, dances in he street....a kind of  mardi gras.

Bnagkok, on saturday It s 7.30 in the morning, i dont want to sleep because i don t want to miss my plane.

I just came back from the disco, my plane gonna leave at 2 pm. I enjoyed the free breakfast on the terrace of the guest house.

I checked my mail on internet, i read that my friend alexis is hosting here parents in philipiinnes till the 16 th of january, I should wait fews days for him, i may take the opportunity to visit the north during this time.

I have lot of time to go to the airport and i don t want to spend 500 bath in a taxi to reach the international airport, i took a city train, one hour to cross the eastern suburb of BKK, I got off in train stop (as said me someone in the hotel) There i m the only foreigner of course, people are quiet surprise to see me here, I negociated a ride with a scooter taxi to go to the airport...amazing to be on the scooter with my pack among the huge motorways and the dense traffic....definately much more fun than a casual taxi. 

I didn t notice the three hours to go to manila...i slept really well in the plane. actually i consider manila as the most unsafe place  where i m staying in my whole year off.  I asked to a girl to share a taxic she seem german (not for the price but for my security), she could t she was taking a domestic flight to zebu, at least i found someone to share the taxi with me.  

In 30 mn I reach the Malate district I stayed to Mlate Pensione. That s really noisy outside it s saturday, even the noise of the fan doesn t  cover this city s noises.

The next day I took a bus to go to Bagio in the north of Luzon island (the main island, there re 7000 island in philippine). The lasted 8 hours dor only 230 km. FRom the bus window you can see the really famous rice terrace, a mix of nature and human work. In that city like in the country, there re lot of people in the street...especially young people. To move around you can use a jeepney kind of  big jeep,  the american heritage. There i felt the mountainous atnosphere, weather is more fresh.

I planned to go more on the north, but I was fed up with this lond bus day trip. So I came bak to Manila, thwere I was hosted by a phillipine family, I ate traditional dish, a fish rolled in a corn leaf. After we reached the house in a tricycle , a tricycle is a side car (was my fist time). IN the morning I woke up early at 6, to take the bus to batangas and then a boat to puerto gallera.

 I gonna flight on satuday from kibalo to manilla. I gonna meet up with Alexis (I met Alexis at the high school).