PHILIPPINES, PART 3

We all know everything in Southeast Asia is cheap, and I can't yet comment on the banana pancake trail countries like Thailand, but everything in the Philippines is shockingly cheap compared to home: 1.75 for a movie in the theatre, 0.80 for a beer, 2-7$ for a t-shirt, etc... I actually got to go see Spiderman 3 in the theatre the other day. It was an OK movie, but also gave me a chance to think about an environmental issue that people don't pay nearly enough attention to. If we are forced to use nuclear energy more often to compensate for a smaller and smaller pool of oil, there will be more and more toxic accidents. As a result, there will be a more and more of these crazy radioactive supervillains, and we all know Spiderman doesn't actually exist and can't save us from them, just something to think about....

Photos taken quickly in the interest of not being violently separated from my camera...

Forest trekking...
The sunrise with the dying pig...


The boat we took to get to Perez Island, see those things on the side for support...ya, sturdy vessel....
rice paddies everywhere...
these are my friends with the boat the 4 of us tried to go canoeing in, it didnt work...
one of the ubiquitous jeepneys, there are no joke about 35 people in that one...
churches everywhere...

basketball courts even more everywhere...

Mama Bueno takes time out of her busy political schedule to rock to The Dead. The matriarch of Lucena City, and soon the world.....

the tricycle...
jeepney