Back from the Philippines - Mars 2008 (Angeles and Manilla)
Back from the Philippines. Mars 2008 (Angeles and Manilla)
1euro = 48 bahts = 61 pesos, so 1000 pesos = 800 bahts
Had to do a visa run from Thailand, so went to the Philippines. One week in Manilla, two weeks in Angeles City.
Contrary to most people, I like Manilla and its hectic life, especially the markets near the Quiapo church and Divisoria. You feel sometimes like in a Blade Runner or Mad Max movie, but be alert and use your brain and everything should be OK. In Manilla I went to EDSA Complex: a few gogo bars with ugly girls. 500p Barfine +2500p ST or 4000 LT. A total rip-off! So I went to LA Cafe near my hotel. It is a bar full of freelancers, like Thermae in Bangkok or Martini in Phnom Penh. Downstairs old girls try to attract your attention. Upstairs some pretty girls but unsmiling and looking bored to death. After asking a few of them, they said they only go with japanese/korean men. As a girl told me in Bangkok, farang small money big dick, japanese small dick big money. Can't blame the girls. The japaneses seem to get ripped off in every country in the world, and obviously are proud of it. Maybe it is what the notion of "face" is all about, spending much more than you should. But with a bit of work, charm (! ) and luck, I managed to get a few cutties from there. ST 1500p, LT 2000p (would probably accept less but didn't try to bargain). LA Cafe is for me the best place for the girls in Manilla.
Then went to Angeles City.coming from Pattaya, hotels are expensive and food terrible. Dozens of gogo bars, some huge (the Atlantis), and you can find some really attractive girls. Rent a motorbike, but missed the seaside of Pattaya and the sleazy bars of soi 6. Thai girls are also better looking than Philippines girls.
You have to pay the girl before leaving the bar (1300p, up to 3000p for the show girls), so even if it should be LT, many will go ST and leave after the first round. And since most won't perform well in bed because you have already paid them, it can be quite a disappointement. But I met some nice ones too, especially one very lovely. I must say that I don't like gogo bars very much, where you have to pay the girl a no so cheap drink (150 p) only to be able to talk to her. I like more the open air beer bars and freelancers bars.
Anyway it was a welcome change for a 3 weeks of pussy hunting, even if the japaneses/koreans are making the game more difficult, as everywhere in Asia. For me Thailand is still number one by far, but Philippines and also Cambodia are nice too. I'll be back.