The biography of Mani Manil

From the inside, this vehicle looks something like this: "Jeepney" in the Philippines. But most often they are not as spacious in them as in the photo. Most often they are full. Each Jeipni driver is trying to decorate his car. It is somewhat similar to decorating buses and trucks in Hindu countries. Sometimes even the most beautiful "jeeps" are held! There is a normal modern public transport in the city: 2 lines of mini-metro and one-speed tram.

But there are too few of them for such a huge metropolis. Listen the gallery: the line "Light Metro" in Manila. Line "Light Metro" in Manila. Line "Light Metro" against the backdrop of "Jeepney" in Manila. The train "Light Metro" in Manila. Machines for the sale of tickets in the Manila Metro. The line of high -speed tram in Manila. At the Light Metro stations, there are even separate waiting zones and wagons for women: the “Light Metro” platform in Manila.

Platform "Light Metro" in Manila. But in fact, outside the clock, “peak” women calmly drive in common wagons. In some places there are dedicated bands for buses, but they are in the same way in traffic jams when they are forced to cross any intersection: transport in Manila. Transport in Manila. Formally, the agglomeration maneula is divided into several "cities", but in reality it is more like the districts of one city: there is no border between these "cities".

This is most likely done for greater convenience of administration. But technically, having traveled several kilometers, you find yourself there every time in another city. And once a long time, this city was a very small settlement on the shores of the Gulf of Manila, where the Pasig River flows into it. At first, there were their kings, probably for some time, the vassals of the Chinese emperors.

They ruled there until the end of the 19th century, and a certain number of Spanish buildings are still preserved in the oldest district of the city - Intramusos literally "inside the walls". The walls of the old city are also mostly preserved, so they can be seen: the wall of the old city of Intramuros in Manila. The wall of the old city of Intramuros in Manila.

Inside the walls of the old city, you can even see the semblance of Spain in places: the Church of St. Augustine in Manila, the 16th century. Church of St. Augustine in Manila, 16th century. The streets and squares also in some places retained the color of the previous times leaf through the gallery: the streets of the quarter intramuros.