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Don’t Visit The Philippines!! 🇵🇭

Henry Johnson LR
5 min readFeb 17, 2019

The popular motto of Philippine tourism is “It’s More Fun in the Philippines.” But is it really more fun in the Philippines? What’s so unique about the nation? Well, apart from the cordiality and liberality of the Pinoys and the Pinays (which are Filipino slang for Filipino men and women sequentially), there are so many ventures that one can take on in this beautiful nation of seven-thousand and some more islands.

The Philippines is classified into three island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. The geographical sectors of the Philippines are the three island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. In 2017 I only visited one which is Luzon. In Luzon, I traveled through Manila, Makati (a city in the Metro Manila precinct and the country’s commercial center), and Quezon City. Great places to visit, especially when one loves city life.

My advice to any backpackers and tourists going to The Philippines is first to understand the Pinoy’s culture and ways of life. For “culture is the widening of the mind and the spirit “(Jawaharlal Nehru, a Biography; by Sankar Ghose, p 180.) With that being said, for most backpackers and tourists, to South East Asia, the Philippines isn’t part of the…

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Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

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