My body has been ruined by too much living in the low humidity desert, and I know better than to even think about going there, as much as I'd love to spend time in those open-air markets, riding those colorful buses and tuk-tuk's!
All that humidity would probably stop my heart, dead in its tracks!
I just read the book The Marcos Dynasty and I recall, one time, in the 70's, they were having a World Bank convention there, the U.S. had given the Marcos's some money to clean up some big eyesore shantytown in downtown Manila, develop some housing for the poor there. Of course, that money was squandered, and worried some U.S. official would investigate the progress being made in this shantytown, Imelda came up with a great idea: She forcefully relocated some 6000 families and their possessions, transported them by garbage trucks to the outer edges of the city (out of sight, out of mind!) and leveled the Shantytown!
Often wonder, what became of that land that was cleared?
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