AT#201 - Travel to the Philippines

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2009

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Ivan Hernares, an award winning Philippines travel blogger, about his home country of the Philippines. Ivan leads us on a virtual tour of the 7107 islands of the Philippines archipelago starting in Manila. Manila has the walled city of Intramuros that reflects its Spanish colonial heritage as well as its asian heritage in Binondo (its chinatown where we can pick up some Lumpia or a winter-melon cake ). There are inexpensive places for backpackers to stay in the Malate neighborhood. Polish up your layup if you want to meet locals since the unofficial national sport is basketball. Then we head south to the power white sand beaches and nightlife of Borocay, the oldest city in the Philippines which is Cebu, the chocolate hills of Bohol and the underground river of Palawan. We explore the rice terraces of Ifugao (a world heritage site) and the WWII historic sites at Corregidor and Bataan. Ivan talks about unique architecture such as the Philippine Baroque churches and the vahay na bato” stone houses. Ivan loves a good hike up Mount Pinatubo or Mount Pulag in the Cordilleras. And if you go to the Philippines don’t forget to pick up some dried mangoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.6	in my passport photo.
0:11.6	Amateur Traveler episode 201.
0:15.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about rice terraces, white sand beaches, and dried mangoes as we go to the Philippines.
0:23.0	I know that I should be heading home.
0:27.0	Maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.5	today's interview I do have three news stories for you. The first one is if you're
0:41.6	interested in history and nuclear power you can tour one
0:45.4	of the first nuclear power plants in the world, the one that donated two-thirds of the plutonium
0:49.8	to the first plutonium bomb, and I hear it's getting glowing reviews.
0:56.6	The U.S. government advises that when you go to China you should throw away your mobile phone and possibly your computer when you get home
1:06.0	because they're afraid that people are spying on businessmen traveling to China.
1:12.0	Yeah that's creepy. Matt Cutts reported on his blog that when
1:17.0	his frequent flyer miles on US Airways were expiring, he decided to change them into magazines and we've done this
1:25.4	often so he signed up for eight different magazines and eight different times
1:30.7	he was told that there was a quote overwhelming response and that the title wasn't available.
1:37.0	Now Matt Cutts you may not know is an SEO or search engine optimization expert for Google and I think he may be searching for a different airline.
1:47.1	For information on the, for links to those news stories and others, check out the show notes
1:51.6	at amateur traveler.com.
1:55.0	Before we get into this week's interview I'm going to start it with a bit of an
2:00.0	apology this was recorded over a phone call to the Philippines and when we're doing the long
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