yeah good man
good morning everybody so today we are heading to
the Philippines Manila and we're going to be showing you basically our first impressions of
this city but right now we're in Bangkok so let's get on the plane and let's go to manila
we've just got through check-in and we're going
to manila it's official now we've got all the documents all the right stuff
so we have just arrived in the Philippines we're in manila right now and we're just gonna have a
little walk around and just basically explore the city we're gonna be meeting a friend i met
last time was in the Philippines so yeah we're gonna meet him later so yeah let's go and explore
so joel has been to the Philippines before but it's actually my first time so
first impressions of the whole country but i actually never came to manila you think of manila
sometimes you hear a lot about how it can be quite dangerous so yeah we're gonna let you know how we
feel about being in the city and what it's like to be here as a foreigner motorbikes the old jeepneys
these two are grabbing mangoes from the tree how cool is that
so we're back in the hostel now but i'm about to go meet my friend that i met last time i
was in the Philippines he's from manila yeah he actually lives in manila so he'll be able to take
me to some of the spots but i've actually not been feeling very well i've had some food poisoning so
i'm going to chill yeah for a bit unfortunately yeah amelia's going to stay here just because
we don't want to you know stress her out with all the food pausing and stuff that you've had
for like a few weeks in thailand so she's gonna stay here i'm gonna go
out and so you're obviously coming with us so well with me so let's go see you later
okay guys so i'm with my friend now zen thumb and we just got these little iced coffees
yeah little iced coffees they're like a little slushy kind of thing but it's actually really nice
and i think we're heading where are we heading cc beach i think it's like an artificial beach and
yeah we're gonna head there and i will take you with you i can't speak let's carry on
so guys we are now in the ccp basically this area as you can see around me is used to be
the actual sea but they put loads of blocks down and basically now it's now it's land
so we've just arrived at manila bay and it looks so beautiful here
you can actually see the views in the background these are like the skyline
it looks really modern from here there's also a yacht club here there's also a guy swimming down
there's a guy swimming here how cool is that i mean i want to kind of get in
the water it's so warm it's actually not as warm as bangkok bangkok at the moment is oh
it's too hot but yeah this is a really nice area of the town obviously there's stereotypes in
manila that it's a really dangerous place and i think there are you know there's places that you
shouldn't go as a foreigner but i think around here i feel pretty safe and obviously being with
zen it's obviously it feels a lot safer because you know he knows his way around where not to go
wait what is that bird that looks so cool is it fake oh no no no it's moving what is it
you don't know they probably attacked me some some filipino bird all right we'll leave it alone
so we've just come to exclusive access of the beach area which they are building it's
an artificial field and i'm not sure when it's going to be finished they started building it
last year but it looks it's going to be really cool we might bring more tourism into the area
there's so it's just along the marina marina bay um manila bay so i get good
views of thailand still but yeah it looks like it's going to be a really cool area
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and what we're doing thank y'all good man what's your name stephen nice to meet you i'm joel you're
watching on this youtube watch me on youtube one of the nice things about the philippines is
people actually speak really good english especially compared to like somewhere like
thailand just because in the textbooks it's all written in english and so even the kids
like that kid back there i could actually speak to him which was really nice but we've just reached
rizzle what was it called grizzle park which is like a big monument right in the center of manila
and yeah let's check this out look at this big old filipino flag right in the middle
sorry
so we're at rizzo park and there's well there's a tree blocking it now but there was the filipino
flag and it's pretty cool around there it's really busy because it's actually good friday and if you
don't know the philippines is a catholic country so it's a national holiday so yeah it's very well
kept around here very clean as well look how many people are at this park it's crazy it probably
is because it's good friday but it's just amazing it's nice to see everyone out enjoying themselves
hey
come on okay so we are gonna head back to my hostel now we're actually gonna ride a jeepney
which is like a filipino bus big taxi thing but a load of people jump on it they look really cool
last time i was here i never took one so we're gonna go on one and see what it's like so let's go
um
we just got off the jeep thingy and it only cost us nine pesos to come back which is i'll put the
conversion on the screen it was such a good price and now we just got a little walk back to the
hostel which is great it was so cool like everyone just jumps on and jumps off and it's a really
cheap way of traveling around the city and a lot of places a lot of cities around the philippines
i just wanted to say the filipino people just seem so happy and outgoing and always want to
wave at you and say hello and it just makes you feel really welcome in this country okay so i
didn't really explain what happened but basically we had dinner in the hotel and well the hostel and
basically just relaxed for a bit in the evening with zen chris who you would have met manila was
really cool to stay there for a bit but obviously it can be considered dangerous so just make sure
you stay in safe areas and do your research before you go to the city but overall i found it very
safe especially um going around with a local and yeah that's my thoughts so we are now in a super
new cool location and i can't wait for the next video which will be out on sunday to show you
where we are it's going to be very exciting yeah it's so it's so cool and it's literally behind me
but yeah make sure you're subscribed please like the video and we will see you in the next one