So I bought a new camera… Cheap again, maybe it will function at least until the end of my trip…
Today I mostly rode the 3 metro lines,which are going mostly overground and are operated by different companies, so you need different tickets for them. the lines in front of the ticket vendors are easily 100 meters long, so you end up waiting quite a while to buy your ticket. But there are multi-travel tickets…
But I guess famous for the Philippines and also unique are the so called jeepneys:
i could post tons of pictures of them. they all have a different style, but they are not very comfortable for travelling, the more if you are not asian-size grown, as me.
So, they are a colourful spot in the grey and smog-polluted traffic ways
and then there are tricycles with and without human powered engines, here are some human powered ones:
And shantytowns everywhere. I dont have any numbers, but I guess that a big part of metromanila’s population is living in places like this
from a bit closer, you understand that this is sort of a normal way of living, nothing temporally or rare. the yo Oung people on the photo below are simply hanging out shortly before sunset (which is very fast and the whole year almost exactly at 6 o’clock.
when seeing these buildings, it is more easy to understand why a typhoon and heavy rainfall can cause such desasters. climate change hits the poor people much harder than the rich. this is why climate change is primarily a social issue and should be treated like one.
tomorrow I will go with some locals to devastated areas that are still suffering a lot from the flood.