Beautiful white, palm fringed beaches....... Quaint traditional villages............... Clean cities..........................Was how we envisaged the 7106 islands of the Philippines to be, HOWEVER would could not have been further from the truth. In a few words the place can be descibed as Dirty, Politically Unstable, Polluted and a proper dog eat dog culture.!!!!! And with us being the extreme minority (white westerners) we stud out like a sore thumb and got hassled every where we went. Before leaving for the Philippines we carefully picked out our first hotel in Luzon, Close to the airport with a pool, bar etc etc sounded great!!!! On landing we very soon realised that our hotel was slap bang in the centre of one of the biggest red light districts in the world, Angeles City!!!!! This place was enough to make Bangkok
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