We love Manila

Even though this city is to large extendt suffering from poverty, we really love the contrast between the parts of the city. All this incredible people working together to make Manila running smoothly. In our stay here we're mostly going to explore this one of a cind island, though The Philippines consists of about 15 islands or so, and we would just love to go seeing all these fantastic and beautiful places, but we'll stick to the capital for now.

Another interessting difference is the religion, The Philippines is actually just one of three asian countries that obtains a Christian relegion due to the conolization by Spain and US. So, here they are much more westernoriented than the neighbour countries. 

HOLA!

This morning, we arrived at Manila International Airport and drove to the hotel we are staying at. Our first impression of The Philippines was a lot different than what we experienced in Dubai. Poverty, population and enviroment are just some of the mayor differences between these countries. Of course, religion and culture are  definetly something else here. The look of the natives aswell. There are just so many differences that it's like going to another planet. Luckily there's an American family staying at our hotel, so we have someone to comunicate with and we might use them to get some information about this capital, Manila.

Well, we have been here for 6 hours now and we haven't explored much, except restaurants of course. Even  us vikings have to eat during the day. So one of the things we so far have noticed that there are variated amount of languages, I belive I've heard spanish. Whatever, I've also read this has been a spanish colony and there are about 100 different languages spoken here.

As you can see here, poverty among the natives is a really huge problem in Manila and the rest of The Philippines. Though in other parts of the this city there are actually modern skyscrapers that kind of hides this poverty.

Here you can see the skyscrapers i mentioned. In this part of Manila there are a lot more turits going for shopping or sight-seeing. Although many turists travel to The Philippines to explore these areas effected by poverty.









   

Movin' on!

Alright, alright, alright, our last day in Dubai! Some of you sharpeyed readers might have spotted that I have not written any articles yet, even though we have quite a few of them. We thought that we could just use Sondre's account, but it dawned upon us that I might get IV. So "Mr.Englishteacher" (or Sir Dadalife,  which is our epic nickname for you) Sondre and I have collaborated on some of the articles because my account sort of found it funny to take a vacation, or to dysfunction. Something like that.

The first skeem for the day came together during last night's dinner, in which I ate way too much and Sondre got drunk. The hangover fanboy wanted me to do a little recap of what actually went down yesterday, so here it is! Our day yesterday.

Yesterday we went to a fine restaurant, and we were absolutely amazed. Not only by the stunning setting, the service and the food, but amazed by the people aswell. In Dubai, the main religion is Islam. We have a feeling that in the "western" part of the world this religion has somewhat of a dodgy reputation, and boy were we amazed!

Norwegian citizens has famously an intimate zone of half a mile, but here people everywhere are beiing kind and gentile, talking to eachother, helping people carry their stuff up and down the stairs and old people allways gets a seat from younger generations on the bus etc... We already knew that people with Islam as their main religion is nice, but the kindness and compassion that this religion learns to everyone here, completely blew us away.

The same thing applied in the fine restaurant we went to. The locals were dressed in religious robes of silk, decorated down to the slightest, finest detail. We were almost ashamed to be European because of a huge ensemble of loud, rude and crude people that were eating as pigs not far away from us.

To our delight, our waiter could inform us they were Americans. Our waiter was a very nice man who served my friend (Sondre, that is) a bit too much booze. I was offered some aswell, but had just consumed our huge dish of khuzi and humus, and felt like I could roll home, like a ball. We must have made quite a spectacle as we headed for the door.

Right now we are headed for the airport in a couple of hours, but we had to check out some cultural places, like old Dubai! According to one of the taxidrivers, old Dubai is like travelling back in time. Rumor has it that  the old fishermen lived and died all inside this same tiny town. Other than that we sure will drop by Burger King heading for the airport. We didn't trust the dead thing we got served for lunch.

Done with Dubai

Morning readers

Today is our last day here in Dubai. We're leaving allready at 07:00 PM, but of course not towards home. The next stop is the Philippines where we are going to stay for a week or so. If it will be as exciting as Dubai just remains to find out.

Right now we are packing up our stuff because we need to be checked out before 12:00 AM. I'm not quite sure what Einer has planned for us today, but there has got to be something. He said something about cultural life and religion.

We will soon tell you readers everything about our stay in Dubai, we want to focuse on the values, culture, a bit history and religion of this fabulous city, though turism and immigrants bringing other values and culture, effects these topics a lot.

Now we have finished our stay here in Dubai, tomorrow eavning we are going to the Philipines. In Dubai we have got no know a lot of different people form all around the world, all the way from Germany, France, Spain, Portugal to Singapoore, China, South-Korea, Russia and so on... Dubai is as far as we have learned a place for every man and women from all the world's corners!

Good Morning!

Hi, everybody! we've just woken up and gone to the pool right outside our hotel. It's so beautiful here and I definetly love this wonderful city. The heat is survivable, even though it just has to be at least 50 degrees here outside! It's so different than back home where we got snow during the winter and the maximum heat during the summer is about 25-30 degrees. Here it can raise to 60 degrees if you're standing in the sunlight. 

This picture was taken last night when arrived <3

Here you can see our fantastic swimmingpool!

DUBAII!!!

We now just arrived at the Dubai International Airport, and as far as we've seen this place is amazing, and that's even before we've been outside. During the landing we saw all the skyscrapers lined up on both sides of the famous Sheik Zayed Road, which is the main road through Dubai and it goes all the way to the capital Abu Dhabi. Actually, we were capable of seeing Burj Khalifa allready 15 minutes before landing, it rose like a huge tower into the sky, being the king of Dubai. It was almost to good to be true, absolutely overwhelming!

The Last Preperations

Okey readers, we're now at Gardemoen in our last magical hour before we take off with a two-stories plane flying towards the first destination Dubai. Non of us have ever been there before, so everything will be absolutely new to us. All the information we got about Dubai is that there are a lot of skyscrapers there and a lot of modern architecture, and I do love that. Burj Khalifa is obvously the world's tallest structure with its 828 meters of altitude. Another building we are excited about is Burj Al-Arab which is the only "7-star" hotel in the world, and since it costs about 100 000 AED per night we are absolutely not going to stay there!!

Well that's enough about Dubai for now, you will get to know a lot more when we get there. I do now want to tell you a bit about ourselves so that you know who we are. well, we are two 16 years old students from Trondheim in Norway. My name is Sondre and my partner is my classmate and friend Einer. We both love travelling and experiencing new cultures and ways of living here on our earth. Therefore we are totally looking forward to explore this with the knowledge we so far have gotten.

In addition to this I love speaking foreign languages, so I have learned Spanis, French and Portuguese through the internet, among some chinese, arabic and also a bit german. Arabic will be a good quality to bring with us on our journey to United Arab Emirates where Arabic is their native and offical language.

Einer though, is a very skilled person when it comes to business competense and other knowlegde than I posses, which makes us able to complement each other in the best way possible.

WALA READERS!

Hi readers, and welcome to this revolutionary travel blog! The bloggers will be me, Sondre, and my absolutely amazing Einer writing from Norway, we are going to share our faptastic experiences with you during our faptastic travel through the world! The two countries we're going to visit are The UAE and The Philippines, which are some of the most interresting and fapciting places to travel to in the world! We're looking forward to fapping us through this journey, telling you guys what we're doing at every time during the day. Wish us good luck folks! <3