The day started out fairly normally, enjoying my stay at Z hostel (great hostel by the way) but quickly descended into madness on the whim of a suggestion. We decided to journey to Tagaytay to see Taal Volcano at sunrise, meaning we would be sleeping overnight in the car. Eventually, after a lot of fun, we got to the volcano and managed to see. Unfortunately there was no sunrise, but it was a great day anyway!
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So who's idea was this anyway?
Okay, sorry!
Good morning and welcome back to manila. One sec, check out this view
So good
This is just a hostel i'm staying at in manila called zed hostel and it's got this rooftop bar
Which isn't a view you normally get in a hostel
Anyway
There's a really good view up there at night, by the way, but right now it's really bright and really hot
But i'll show the view later
I'm, just going to do a bit of work
Maybe for like an hour and then head out and explore some of manila
Yeah, please
Yeah, that's another thing that's cool
That's how you pay for everything just load some money on it first swag
I'm, actually just signing up for a stock footage site right now to sell my
excess b-roll online
Um, I don't know how profitable it will be but that was just one of the tips I got away from tbex
So I thought try it out
Film a bit. Well, you have to say hi
What's up guys, so I just got here to intramuros
And I say just got here. I've actually been in the car for the last two hours in traffic
That happens
Carice joey say hi
Yeah, they just gave me a lift here
I don't know from manila
And actually we were introduced by cafe con leche abroad if you remember them
Then they met them here in manila before
I'm gonna have a look around
So we actually only just stopped in intramuros for about 10 minutes, but if you want to see
More of it then i've got an old video about that. So check that out. We're heading now to somewhere else
It's a little bit of a drive and i'll let you know where
Into the journey so far and I think we're going to a place called taal volcano
The plan just sort of sprung up halfway through the day and we're going to drive there and try and stay there tonight
For the sunrise tomorrow
so
It's kind of evolving as we go, but i'll keep you updated if I need to say this happy birthday curious
So they're just in there grabbing
some food and snacks for the road
um
I realize I haven't really introduced either joey or carice yet, but it's carice's birthday. I know them before this
Anyway, they're just a bit shy in front of camera
Establishments now
Okay
So after about two and a half hours of driving we eventually made it to tagaytay
Here's the place tagaytay
i've never even
really heard of it until tonight, but
Let's explore anyway, it's kind of like being in an abandoned theme park
This is about to be the first roller coaster i've ever been on at night in this pretty empty
abandoned looking theme park
Crazy
Wow should I go in the front then
I can't do that one. Okay too dangerous
Not as scary as you thought
What do you think of the roller coaster it's it's it's not that scary this is cool though
Check it out. It's october 18th. I think it's christmas
We just came to a restaurant quickly to try bulalo which is
Beef bone marrow soup
I've never tried it before i'm gonna check it out now
Okay, so this is the really interesting bit
This is the bone marrow so
Bone marrow of a cow
What do you just get it with rice, right?
Do you want some you guys
There you go, that's it
It's nice, it's good
It's now one in the morning and i've just been convinced to walk for an hour to starbucks
It's so far
And now she's the one complaining
But we're almost there turning out to be an interesting night
Right starbucks is closing
Uh, we still got a few hours to kill until sunrise
Not really sure what we're gonna do
but
See what happens
Okay
Okay, just got a tricycle back because we had no idea how far we walked
Uh took quite a long time actually
Turning out to be a bizarre night
Now we've got back to the car and i'm not sure
If we're locked in the car park or not
So whose idea was this anyway
Okay, sorry
Nice kid
He's waving you
So, where is it there's a guard I thought like we were locked in or something
Like I wanted to check
Okay, so can he open it?
Yeah later
Okay
So this
is where
We slept last night
Um
Just for a few hours just to wait
for the sunrise
which apparently
Is meant to be pretty good
The weather's not great. It's pretty cloudy. We're going to try and find somewhere for the best view for the sunrise
All right. We're on the way down to another view
And just saw this
In
a closed
Starbucks parking lot where we were last night. So we're going to try and capture the view quickly. Okay. Have a look at this
still though
Starbucks
with a view
And now we're going to try and capture the volcano that we came here for
So, what do you think worth it
Well, because we've seen it like for so many times because i've been there like that's like another app
Yeah, it's appreciated if you climbed it and you'd go up all right
I want to go up
No, no
Right. Well, this is taal lake and that around there
is taal volcano taal volcano
and
It's pretty cool
It's a pretty nice lake
I'm told there's usually like an epic sunrise as well
But we got a bit unlucky with the weather because it's quite cloudy
But still overall
a random
but
funny trip
And now I just need to make the two or so hour drive back to manila
Finally
24 hours later back in z hostel
And back in my dorm. I didn't actually stay here last night
But I did stay in the night before and it was a pretty nice day
I've actually got to check out now. I'm going to check out and check into somewhere else
But i'll just leave you
with saying that it was a really
Unexpected night and an unexpected day
But overall a pretty good one and doing something. I hadn't really heard of just outside of manila
I'm, actually really tired now slept a bit in the car
But now I need to get all my stuff together and move on to the next vlog which i'll be starting today
Thank you for watching and this is my life