Manila — Sights
Old walls, glass towers and a bay full of sunset.
- Fort Santiago — The Spanish citadel where Rizal spent his last night
- San Agustin Church & Casa Manila — The country's oldest stone church, and a colonial mansion opposite
- Manila Cathedral — The green-domed cathedral rebuilt time and again
- Rizal Park (Luneta) — 58 hectares of park where the national hero was shot
- National Museum of the Philippines (Fine Arts, Anthropology, Natural History) — Free entry to the Spoliarium and the Tree of Life
- Manila Bay Sunset & Baywalk — Palm-lined seawall and a red sun dropping into the bay
- Binondo Chinatown — Dumpling-hopping in a Chinatown dating from 1594
- Quiapo Church (Black Nazarene) — Devotees queue for the Black Nazarene amid a street market
- Bonifacio High Street (BGC) — A kilometre of open-air shopping along a strip of lawn
- Ayala Museum — Philippine history in dioramas, plus pre-colonial gold
- Poblacion, Makati — Cocktail bars and rooftops in Makati's old town lanes
- SM Mall of Asia (MOA) — A mega-mall with a bay sunset and Ferris wheel out back
- Okada Manila Fountain & Entertainment City — A free, giant fountain show in front of a casino resort
- Tagaytay & Taal Volcano Day Trip — A cool ridge looking down on a volcano in a lake
- Corregidor Island Day Trip — A fortress island of WWII gun batteries and ruined barracks
- Bahay Tsinoy — Four centuries of Chinese Filipinos in dioramas
- Manila Chinese Cemetery — A village of mansion tombs with streets and AC
- Paco Park — A round Spanish cemetery turned garden
- Cultural Center of the Philippines — Brutalist arts hall and galleries on Manila Bay
- Metropolitan Museum of Manila — Pre-colonial gold and Filipino masters
- Ayala Triangle Gardens — A lawn park ringed by Makati towers
- The Mind Museum — Dinosaurs and hands-on science halls
- Manila American Cemetery and Memorial — Endless white crosses of a WWII cemetery
- Manila Ocean Park — Bayfront oceanarium with an underwater tunnel
- Pinto Art Museum — Whitewashed galleries and gardens of modern art