ups for some of the rides look insane good morning everyone we're Nicole and Mico welcome
back to our discovering Philippine series we're super excited for today's video because
we have just picked up some very special guests from the airport and today we are going to
be exploring Manila with them let me introduce you come here all right everyone say hello
to my dad mom works for the Philippines together for the next two weeks starting with vanilla
so we've come to a pretty popular tourist attraction here in Manila by the water we're
at the I think it's called dolamidi's Beach this is just a nice Beach it looks like it's
man-made but you can see a nice view of the harbor of the entire the Manila Bay so something
really cool about this uh bay area and I think what really helped Manila Thrive is that if
you look at a map of the Philippines and look at where Manila is it's actually in this really
nice natural Harbor where it protects ships that would sail into it from like the rough
Seas I think this is South China Sea part of the reason why I think Manila is such a
thriving city is because it sent it facilitated a lot of natural trade with neighboring countries
and this nice little calm Harbor
so we're struggling with the the warmth and this is probably the coldest day in a lot
like of the year it's probably only like 28 degrees but it's so humid we're dying our
canadian-ness is not we're not built for this there's no not any sun we left minus 41.
yeah they left minus 41 so we're taking a walk with us okay I'll take this you guys
have a good excuse I know I'll take this it's fine it's still more manageable but it's hot
so we were been to Rizzo Park before but of course we have to come back Sean Nicole's
parents and she's given the history of the lesson now and she's actually doing a really
good job probably way better than me I don't really remember much about it but Nicole has
like a like a cool mind and memory for this kind of History stuff which is good one of
us needs to for our Travel Channel I guess you need at least one person to be good at
that it's harder than you hun of course I think Nicole's parents are learning more about
Filipino history than I am
so many people here there's like one standing air conditioner it's back there and we can't
complain because they don't have anything the closer you get to the kitchen the hotter
it gets
to stay yes
see so I thought this is like a burger patty when we were here the one over time but it's
rice
very nice thank you so oh that's good better than KFC I think so too way better rice it
looks like half like I thought it was gonna be like a bird Patty when I first right yeah
I like it so Jollibee spaghetti is not like normal spaghetti it's all a unique blend of
uh Filipino style spaghetti I'm curious what you'll think I like the face it's like I don't
know if I'm gonna like this
that was good it's pretty good right I like it I like it I don't like the sausage but
oh that's got a nice dish right now this is a little freezer that's weird this is definitely
a dad food I don't know Mom what do you think it's supposed to be tomatoing it's not it's
like what is that three I think I swear it's just like added sugar I don't actually know
how to make that you have to grow up with this one
but the chicken but their chickens are amazing hang on do you think it's super weird to have
it with rice and not with fries like you have pieces in your eyes yeah I'm not going to
when Nicola first tasted Jollibee like not too long ago in a previous Vlog Nicole was
like it's so weird to have rice and not not french fries like you always do a KFC and
I'm like no it's totally normal to have rice yeah it's weird to have french fries fried
chicken and rice go so well together spaghetti so he's mixing it almost chicken it's so good
chicken yeah chicken's been over here yeah spaghetti is doing over here all in all jollibee's
not good really good not bad from the in-laws
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there's always kids on the street asking for food or money so I mean no way I could throw
it away all right so we are stuffed that was an amazing lunch we are now gonna head to
the train so we can head over to the next place it'll be the first time these guys have
gone to the train so see uh what they think of the Manila Metro System
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I'm waiting in the traffic Mom it's a little crazy
it's a little bit busy yeah
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next thing we're going to try to do now is try and find a jeepney I think it's around
here somewhere oh it had a little shaky on this part of the navigation but I'm confident
about buying something we're gonna try and catch a jeepney which is the mode of transportation
none of us have ever taken before including Nico we don't know what we're doing how much
it costs or really how to catch one but I think they operate like a box so if we find
one that has Mall of Asia on it which is where we're going for sure we can make it there
okay Mall of Asia yes
okay
I have no idea we'll find out the energy
we don't know how much it costs
so we made it and we thought we're gonna be the last people on but nope there's lots of
room left
all these jeepneys were left over by the Americas after World War II so they basically converted
them to be the public transit systems that is why we are still writing 70 years later
80 years later a long time later
furniture
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let's go for it is this yeah
thanks lady for your help thank you that was awesome success that is the best coolest bus
I've ever taken I'm glad we did that that was neat yeah we of course had to ask locals
for help because we did not know we were going when we were getting off how to do all the
things how much it cost sorry if you ask around you have all your answers all your questions
answered they look very fashionable which is why we're like you're probably going away
to the Mall of Asia I don't think we're inside yet I don't know it's so big this is like
the largest mall and I think currently it's the third largest mall in the world and I
think it's the largest mall in Philippines Filipinos love their moss and which makes
sense because I love my malls I have no idea what to expect inside to be honest we haven't
looked this up we just knew we had to come there's more shops walking around cafes what
more do you need
[Music] well we walked around the Mall of Asia oh my God it's so big it's so crazy in
there I think what's interesting is that like I feel like you're you think you're in the
main spot and then you like walk out some little auxiliary hallway and you're in another
homemade shopping mall it's like it feels like Minnie Mouse yeah put together it's like
Manila you know vanilla's like many cities put together yeah this Mall of Asia is like
many malls put together and you just can easily get lost like a casino so what do you guys
think of Filipino malls it's massive busy all the time absolutely yeah I've been in
one that hasn't had a throng of people yeah they've got everything eh yeah I want to rent
one of those I don't know man I don't know I feel like we've hit the carnival yeah I
think so
this place really feels like a carnival there's like a ring toss over there a duck game you
can win different prizes lots of I don't know just like little mini games happening here
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coffee that's like legitimate mangle wow you know I really feel like there should be some
sort of festival or something going on but is this like a regular Tuesday it's like a
regular Tuesday that's it looks like there's something going on yeah maybe there is something
going on we have no idea
do you want to come and have a place to go on rides apparently motivation is the spot
so the colder family went to a Starbucks really quickly and I'm playing the game to see if
they can recognize me in a crowd full of Filipinos I don't think it's working [Music]
I was testing you guys
you got a white shirt on today
it turns out that there are a lot of people here today because there's a promo going on
on Facebook it's like 250 pesos for like right all you can today um for the next few days
so there's lots of people here taking advantage of that promo and the lineups for some of
the rides look insane so we just bought tickets for the ferris wheel it'll take like about
eight minutes to get in line so there's a there's a regular one which is 150 pesos per
head and there's a VIP one slash fast lane for 200.
pretty sure we get like the fast lane which I think has nobody in it and the line here
is giant because the line goes like from over there those wraps all the way around and we
got some people there too
everybody's in the Vlog now [Applause] so anyways I think the VIP is gonna get us uh
like to skip this entire life which is awesome I feel bad a little bit yeah let's see let's
see who it goes I think we tied to the sunset too
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this is pretty cool I think uh I saw it online but there's a cool Ferris Wheel by the water
and I think it's definitely living up to its hype right now wow we tried to go for Sunset
which I actually were catching we're catching it's really tough to actually get a nice picture
like a video of The View because the glass is a little bit like hazy hazy oh my gosh
look at the beauty I forgot about this
when you buy VIP you also get like the glass bottom like cards in this Ferris wheel thingy
and it's trippy
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first impressions of Manila and the Philippines so far what do you think really friendly people
actually like just part of being here right like I feel like we're really accepted and
just although everybody definitely people looking oh yeah you gotta do like a little
difference
you'll wave and you wave back and you're like she's like super friendly yeah the amount
of people is can be a little overwhelming every once in a while just a minute ago I
was like wow there's a lot of people here so that means we gotta get out of Manila and
somewhere more we've got a beach why don't we go tomorrow
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so hit subscribe if you aren't subscribed already and thank you guys so much for watching
this video thanks for watching if anybody knows like the ingredients that go into the
sauce for spaghetti can you please tell us yeah let us know yeah because we're sitting
here deciding how to make this we have no idea I'm I'm pretty sure it's a national Secret
like if we ever found out we'd never be able to leave the country no seriously you want
to know