Best places to visit around Manila?

For touristic areas covering historical monuments/places:

Manila: Intramuros, the walled city where you will find Rizal Shrine. The walled area of the city of Manila was where the Spanish government had its administrative seat. The place was razed to the ground during World War II.

Places accessible within an hour or two car drive from Manila:

Pagsanjan, Laguna: Shooting the rapids at Pagsanjan Falls
Paete, Laguna: Paper maché factories and wood carving factories;
Mt Makaling,Laguna: for hiking and trekking
San Pablo, Laguna: The beautiful Seven Lakes
Los Baños: Hot Spring swimming pools
Calatagan, Laguna: Man-made lagoon and conference area
also some nice cottages on stilts.

Quezon: Mt Banahaw for mountian climbing/trekking
Tiaong, Quezon: Villa Escudero (highly recommended)
Baler, Quezon for world renowned surfing area and beuatiful beaches.

Anilao and Matabungkay, Batangas: nice scuva diving area
and beautiful beaches.

Tagaytay City: Decks to view Taal Lake and Taal Volcano (smallest volcano in the world) , picnic area in the picnic groves.

Bulacan: Biak na Bato for river trailing. A nice Orchid farm in San Rafael, Bulacan.

For nightspots:
Remedios Circle, Ermita, Manila
The FORT, in Ft Bonifacio
Greenbelt 3, Makati Avenue, Legaspi Village
Rockwell, Makati
Eastwood City, in Libis, Quezon City

For Shopping Malls: You will find 2-5Malls in one place. Philippines can boast of having large Malls in every City more than in any country in the world.. Even provincial cities now have their own large malls.

Movie houses can be found in almost all those malls.

Theater for Stage Plays and concerts are also available in some fo the Malls.

2007-03-14 19:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by arienne321 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

SM MALL OF ASIA!!!!!!!!
ilo-ilo
jolo
cavite
CEBU
BOHOL
Antipolo
marikina
makati
Ortigas: Shangrila, SM, Robinson
SM North Edsa (It use to be small but they now made it so large)
Star City
Enchanted Kingdom
Pampangga
Bulacan
Palawan
Vinta of Zamboanga
Pahiyas and Maskara
Festivities
Diliman
ABS-CBN Studios
GMA Studios
Sta. Lucia Mall
Infanta

2007-03-13 17:49:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Intramuros. Take a walk around the walled city, right on top of the wall (it's at least seven feet thick). Then go to Fort Santiago inside Intramuros, and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe there. You'd think you were transported to the 19th century.

2007-03-12 22:43:04 · answer #3 · answered by Lady_Lawyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Best places to visit are Intramuros, Luneta park, baywalk in roxas blvd., CCP complex, Asia mall, Makati business district, american cementery for very nice landscape, Greenhills or Divisoria for cheaper items like clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories

2007-03-13 02:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by Linda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

For fantastic nightlife, go to Makati - good food, good music, good dancing, good drinking too!

For shopping, you'd got to visit the SM Mall of Asia.

It's about 1 1/2 hrs drive (and well worth it), fantastic views, excellent cool weather - Tagaytay City.

Enjoy your stay!

2007-03-12 22:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Taal Volcano

2007-03-13 03:28:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

The best place I visited in manila was the departure terminal at NAIA so I could get out the hell of there

2007-03-13 09:06:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋

just contact me,
i will tour you around.
MaBuhay!

2007-03-13 02:31:51 · answer #8 · answered by MaSTeR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

PAYATAS the dump site bwahahahaha

2007-03-12 23:22:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋

Best places to visit around Manila?

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