Customs are Manila: behind the vanity is full of vicissitudes of life

Compared with other Southeast Asian city,PhilippinesParticularly attractive to the capital city of Manila is not really one. She did notSingaporeClean, noKuala LumpurTolerance, notHongkongVitality, not lustrous and dazzling in bangkok. But Manila is out of the ordinary, she is richSpainColonial culture, a medieval city, a Catholic Church and majestic, something Western civilization, and its own unique ethnic struggle story and legend.

The night of Manila

More than four hundred years ago the Spanish rule in Philippines, may not think of, today's Manila, although still printed the colony deeply, it has formed its own unique charm of the city: she is the city that never sleeps, a vanity of vanity fair, here, every day there are many legends in the stage, people and the city together, with the carnival, have the glory and dream of their own.

The Catholic Church meet the eye everywhere

Before the impression of Manila is not good, cluttered noisy street, traffic jams, relatively backward city facilities, always lets the human not to mention the spirit. However, when I really deeply in which to travel, but found that this city or there is another unique aspect. Western colonial culture, everywhere in the magnificent church, the bustling Manila Bay Crescent, let people register profound respect patriotic hero and the love story of beautiful, such as mellow wine, the more goods more flavor.

Manila Bay sunset

The first impression

Western culture has profound influence on here.

Manila to my first feeling, this feeling is full of the breath, and other Southeast Asian city (Singapore excepted) no two, be wires can be seen everywhere, motorcycle traffic streams of people busily coming and going, some confusion, the dark-skinned people to make a living selling goods, smiling face to greet.

But Manila also has its unique place, especially in culture. People here have the Catholic tradition, the Catholic Church meet the eye everywhere in Manila city. HereTravelingCan be said, as long as the basic oral English, in Manila can be smooth operator, because the local people's English is good (for a long time they accept the English education). It is said that in China in Hongkong and EuropeThe United States of AmericaHome, the maid is more popular than the maid, Thai domestic, not because of their hard-working, but because they can speak fluent English, convenient communication.