Living Urban: Spending Long Weekend Withhin the Philippines' Urban Area

Saturday, Sunday, plus two holidays, is a very long weekend next to holy week

Well, we don’t need to go outside of the metropolis to spend our long week end vacation. Just within the urban area we enjoyed that long non-working days (although we spent a day outside the capital region).

Day one was a trip to my daughter’s pediatrician. It’s just an hour trip to the southern city in Lipa City Batangas. What’s good about living in the Philippines’ metropolis is that the bus station is just on the other street so we don’t need to wake up too early to prepare (it’s very convenient).

Unlike before where it would take you two hours or more to travel to the southern cities, we can now enjoy a non stop trip along the South Luzon Express Way.

We took the Ceres bus in Buendia Pasay, its route is actually from Pasay to Batangas, so you can take this trip if you’re on your way to Batangas Port.

After the checkup we spent a day in Lipa and went back to Metro Manila the following day.

Day three was spent in Mall of Asia, (the largest mall in Asia), so large that you can actually spend the entire day in that place. You can start the day by going to church beside the mall, have lunch after mass, watch movie, play bowling, watch fireworks and more… until 10pm.

Mall of Asia is just a 5-minute ride from our place, so we can actually visit anytime we want (another benefit of living urban in the Philippines).

We went swimming in our place the following day. It’s just downstairs anyway in the amenities area. The area is so wide that you can actually just spend your entire long weekend there. Start your day by going to the gym, go swimming after workout if you can. Have some lunch and play billiards or table tennis or just stay inside the wi-fi study area with your laptop.

I know, these are just for lazy people like me who wouldn’t want to take a trip to other places to spend their vacation. Maybe after a few months if I’m already sated of spending my non working days in the area that start I’ll looking for another place to spend our vacation. Anyway the bus stop is just on the on the next street.

For now I think we can enjoy spending our weekends and other vacations within the Philippine Metropolis. J

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