Avoid Holy Week ANYWHERE in the PI
Maybe AC will be closest to normal, as ac is NEVER normal, but as a general rule there is no better week to avoid the PI than Holy week. This is true in all Christian countries but even more so in PI. 95%+ of Filipinos go on vacation that week. Not ONLY is there the issue of mongering places being closed a problem, but flights and hotels are ALWAYS overbooked, traffic is horrendous even by PI standards and those with a limit to their tolerance of all things Catholic will feel like Michael Douglass in that movie where he gets stuck in the traffic jam and then just flips out.
DH: it was easy from your description to infer that you were referring to CP. No I have not been there.
Great story and good advice skip
If you must tolerate some sermon to9 appease your honeyko's religous sensibilities, Malate Church (not a cathedral) is a good place to do it. Oldest Church in the PI and a landmark. Plus if you get bored you can walk outside to watch the fountain with dancing waters. Or better yet tell her you'll return in an hour and go stroll up Adriatico street to see if any freelancers are committing the Cardinal Sin.working as hookers during Holy Week.
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Alternative Punting Areas Manila – Quiapo
from reading some of the field reports on this excellent punting site, i am aware that there are some adventurous souls out there, who, like me, like to walk on the wild side now and then. that is to abandon the tried and tested venues in ermita, pasay (edsa compex) and makati and experiment with the local scene in cubao, pasay and quiapo. it can be a bit more hit and miss, a little more dangerous (which adds to the excitement and this is after all an adventure, contact sport) but the rewards can be that much greater.
of all the local punting options, quiapo is my favourite. the area in question is centred around carriedo street extending as far as rizal avenue and recto avenue. during the american colonial era carriedo street was the top shopping street in manila but with the construction of lrt 1 this area slid rapidly and is now quite run down. the overhead lrt trap the dust and smog and it is dirty and gloomy 24/7. lim tried to resurrect the area a few years back by pedestranising carriedo but it didn’t invigorate the area that much and it was abandoned last year (why oh why do they always fuck up like this in the philippines – spend public money on a great cosmetic projects and then abandon or neglect them soon after – take baywalk as a prime example).
during the day the area has much going for it. there is a great street market, quiapo church (famous for the black nazarene) and chinatown (with some excellent dining options) and intramurus nearby. but its when the market vendors pack up and go home and the streets are given over to night pursuits that the area really comes to life.
as it is a local scene, entertainment venues are largely of the dreaded karaoke variety but there are also disco’s and plenty of pretty nifty cafes where you can grab a beer and watch life dance by and chat up the bargirls (all available). there is a big disco nearby (can’t remember the name but it has chicks in it) which is a local pick up joint but it is dark inside and you can’t make out the quality (or not) of the offered ‘chicks’.
there are also upstairs joints with dodgy looking geezers outside trying to entice you in but i’m not brave enough for them! there are i’m reliably informed literally dozens of casas in the area but again i have no experience of these.
the quality of the available girls in all these various joints varies considerably. there are plenty of clapped out dogs, a large selection of middling lookers, a la la café types and a smaller sprinkling of real honeys. these tend to be young, fresh faced lasses straight from the farms of visayas and mindanao. you can bar fine girls and the amount varies from place to place, varying from p100-200 to p500 or more. i suppose it depends on what the mama/papasan thinks he can get out of you. outside, particularly on carriedo, there is plenty of street action but here you have to be particularly careful as there are an awful lot of **** girls out there trolling for custom (i don’t know if its true but i was told that this is because the area is close to chinatown and chinese filipinos are partial to chickens as it keeps them young). however you can find plenty of really tasty, legal age tarts and the good news is, although they will initially ask for more, they are all available for p500 st. don’t pay any more as locals pay only p200-300. there are plenty of st hotels on and near carriedo including a sogo (outside where many girls hang). street action starts about ten but peaks between 11 and 2.
in many nighttime visits to this area, both alone and accompanied by local and visiting friends, i have only twice encountered fellow non filipino mongers. one was a german sailor off a visiting boat and the other a mad, elderly aussie who actually based himself in a local hotel while he trawled the local casas, liberally spreading his seed and looking for miss right whereupon he would whip her off to puerta galera to enjoy the rest of his holiday. worked for him so maybe he wasn’t as mad as he looked: d
being a foreigner in this area will attract plenty of interest but invariably benign and of the usual good natured filipino ‘taking the [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url]’ variety.
hope this is of use – i have appended a few pix of one of the p500 street hookers – she gave such good service that i arranged a further meeting with her accompanied by a girlfriend – now that was a blow out for p1t!
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