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Holiday trip to Manila to learn about the history and present of Philippines

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Manila is the capital of Philippines and they have gone through the colonization from the Spanish and American. The worst is the Spanish which until today some of them still hate Spanish even though most of them carries Spanish word in their own name. That's the contradiction. Anyway, flying in to Manila is not a problem transferring from the airport to your next destination is a nightmare.  Fun fact: Their national airport is known as Ninoy Aquino International Airport and there is 3 terminals on the airport so you need to make sure which terminal your plane is going to land.   They do not have MRT or LRT line to the airport. The nearest station to the airport is the Baclaran station. It is easy for you to take a taxi from the airport to the Baclaran LRT1 Line Station. But it is very hard in vice versa. There are no proper taxi station you wait for the taxi even you hitch a taxi they can easily mark up the price from 200php onwards. They will not use their taxi meter. P...