Philippine impressions

Beach at Subic Bay:



Morning in Los Banos, a hot spring area and a fish-farming village:




The first of the two houses we rented:


The second house we rented:


Hmm, I always wondered how to get there:


A custom-made jeep:






What do they sell in an ATM store?


This being the Philippines, the first thing that you see when you walk into an electronics store is not TVs, but Karaoke machines:


Taxis lined up outside one of the largest malls in Manila:


Manila sunset:


A view out of a tricycle, a cheaper variant of a taxi:


It was the month before local elections. Manny Pacquiao was everywhere:


Orchids at the Seoul airport:


The week when we were in the Philippines, US has moved some of its warplanes there, and they were practicing runs near where we were staying:


It's hot in the Philippines! 39 degrees Celsius is 102 Fahrenheit. We hit it more than a few days in a row.