Manila: The Pearl of the Orient?
December 15th 2018 Manila is known as the Pearl of the Orient but ask a Filipino and almost all will tell you to not to waste time there and to get out of the city at the first opportunity. It has a reputation for being a sprawling metropolis where modern clashes with poverty, and city traffic that is so congested it crawls if it moves at all.
The Lonely Planet is kinder saying the name is apt because ‘its unappe
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