Blimey, Manila is as dodge as the guidebooks hint. Or as dodgy as you wanna make it. Most gentrified, just another Asian supercity with malls cinemas etc. But theres a nasty undercurrent if you get off the main streets. as usual. I hear helipcopters from my grotty room in a crap guesthouse...im staying in a dorm here.....it all sounds very Vietnam, its really humid and the copters are echoing off the buildings around the city, so im off to have a look. Turn...

Helichopters Directions from a man with a shotgun Dirty, smelly seedy Off to puerto Valera