… continued from previous post.
So after I refreshed myself and relaxed a bit, Ift asked me out for dinner and the destination is Quiapo Street. The reason we are heading for that direction is because there’s Islamic center there and surely there would be halal food around the area. It was around 4 km away from our place, so we took a jeepney there. Jeepney is like a mini bus in Malaysia, but 10X of its roughness and fear factor. Hahaha!! Cost us 10 pesos (RM0.70) per person for the journey.
I would not go into the details on the food and all, but what I want to share now is about the condition around Manilla city as I saw through the jeepney ride. As I said previosly, Manila is quite a slump city whereby people sleep around the side of the road. It was a really sad and eye opening experience for us. The condition there reminds me of the slump area particularly around south america… its a very sad view.
Another particular thing that I would like to share is the safety around Manila. Don’t go out after dark if there’s not local accompanying you to the places. It’s really dangerous. Me and Ift was followed on a street.. luckily he realized about it and we entered a shop to break their attention to us. I think for the rest of my stay here I would have my dinner inside the hotel unless there is local accompanying us.
I always told my friend that Phuket is an example of the world’s paradise. But if people ask me what is the example of world’s hell; I would say without hesitation that Manila is one of it.
end of day one.
Zam “painkiller” Hizami