MANILA TOUR | 02.18.13
One of our plans is to take a tour around Manila. I KNOW. It’s not really foreign into my sight but this office mate of mine actually haven’t gotten around much in Manila so we decided to take her a tour.
We pretty much got late, almost started the tour around 1pm XD although the said call time should be at 10am XD *so Filipino time* Anyways, we still had fun running around Manila :)
We met at SM Manila and had our lunch there then we start walking in Intramuros.
Intramuros is the oldest district and historic core of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Known as the Walled City, the original fortified city of Manila was the seat of the Spanish government during the Spanish colonial period. The walled part of Manila was called intramuros, which is Latin for “within the walls”; districts beyond the walls were referred as the extramuros of Manila, meaning “outside the walls”.[2][3]
Construction of the defensive walls was started by the Spaniards in the late 16th century to protect the city from foreign invasions. The 0.67-square-kilometre (0.26 sq mi) walled city was originally located along the shores of the Manila Bay, south of the entrance to Pasig River. The reclamations during the early 20th-century obscured the walls from the bay. Guarding the old city is Fort Santiago, its citadel located at the mouth of the river. -Wikipedia.com
You will not be able to see the whole “WALL” as it’s very long XD our digicam can’t capture it. But I’ll tell you it’s a long walk :) Similar to China’s Great Wall, our wall is use for defense against foreign invasion as said above :D
Today, Intramuros is surrounded by popular Universities/Colleges. Here you can see, Lyceum University of the Philippines, MAPUA, San Juan De Letran College, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Manila etc… You can also see here DOLE and the MANILA BULLETIN :D So you’ll see a lot of students roaming around. It wasn’t now so historical but you can still feel it’s history :D