Head over to Pen’s page and see some pictures when we went on tour at Intramuros last Saturday.
It was a rollercoaster stroll we did that day. Hehe. Both of us ignorant of the place where we would meet - SM Manila. She was coming from her house and me at the other end of the city. We settled to meet at SM as it is somewhat the middlepoint on where we intend to go.
Pen wanted to go to San Agustin Church, Fort Santiago, Luneta, BayWalk, Corregidor and Manila Zoo. We were able to see all these places save for Corregidor and Manila Zoo. I think we will do that some other time. Oh, she also wanted to go to StarCity when we saw the lights came alive when we were at BayWalk infront of Malate Church. :hihi:
Anyway, we spent most of our time walking. From the Puerto Real entrance of Intramuros (almost infront of Manila City Hall) to San Agustin Church to Manila Cathedral to Fort Santiago to Manila Hotel to Luneta Grandstand. It was a ‘good walk’ and not a ‘torture walk’ mind you. We just happily walked away.
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We were like tourists mouthing ‘WOW’ everytime we see something extraordinaire. I personally like the San Agustin tour than the Fort Santiago tour. If you have read ‘Angels & Demons’ book by Dan Brown you’ll affirm that indeed the church has the most wealth during those times (even now). There were so many artifacts inside the San Agustin Museum: religious icons, paintings (there were lots of ‘em), religious costumes (fit for a king according to Pen), a miniature of San Agustin Church, the choir place of the church proper with huge pipe organ and even broken ceramic bowls and platters.
Fort Santiago was nice but it was a fieldtrip day for I think 3 schools. There were bunch of kids/teens running around and shouting at each other. Sayang yung ambiance nang place. Bad trip. Kaya siguro di ko gano nagustuhan yung lugar. We just made a quick run around the walls and visited Rizal’s cell and memorabilia room. There was this ceiling to wall - 3 feet wide - half inch thick clear glass that has various transcriptions of Rizal’s poems. And with the right lighting, the letters would cast shadows on the wall then you could read the whole poem easily. Ganda ng effect. Sayang bawal mag-picture sa loob. There was an anecdote written on the floor, letters I think are 5 inch in height. You have to move backwards to be able to read the anecdote from start to finish.
Next stop was at Kilometer 0. I have a solo picture of with that post last year and this time I got to take a picture of Pen. Wala lang.
We passed by Luneta Grandstand before heading to Baywalk. By this time we were feeling our sore feet and exhaustion. So we hailed a taxi and off we went to Malate Church. It was sort of a landmark for us and thought we can start our walk from the church. We did walked from the church to the bay but just sat there and rested. 
icture: Pen happily clicked her camera to capture the sun setting down. I guess we were at a good spot that many photographers are standing behind us clicking their cameras.
After the sun expired, we ate dinner at a stall there (Lechon Express was it?). I remember we had lechon liempo and sizzling tuna.
Yummy. :happy:
For sure this little tour of ours will not be the last. The moment we rode the bus home, Pen is already planning where to go next.
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