Winter Vaca to The Land of Mangoes March 13, 2013 Nicole FINALLY! It was vacation time for this girl, after a long long long winter! I dont’ even know where to begin on this post! I guess from the beginning.. Manila! Is a very very busy, dirty, and not nice city where we were anyways. The hotel we booked was near the airport and was supposed to pick us up and they weren’t there.. soo we took a taxi and Chinese New Year was just ringing in so there were fireworks and all kinds of stuff. The taxi driver spoke decent English but wasn’t really that friendly. The hotel, was prettty sketchy.. haha. The room looked clean but just dingy.. but it was late so we went to sleep right away. Next morning, we picked a new hotel, and then went to explore “Intramuros” the original settlement of Manila, and a few parks surrounding the area. It was very eye opening, but nothing really was very interesting. We decided instead of taking a taxi to the MRT to take a Jeepney h...