Fourth Day: Fort Santiago

Remember the second day when we couldn’t visit the fort? We saved it for this day.

Before that we had our very first Jollibee meal in Intramuros.

Here we are! The fort! It looks really nice with the garden and the wind was cool and strong.

This is what makes it such a nice place.

Two metal figures doing uh…uh…I don’t know. In the background are the faces of the presidents of Philippines. Gloria doesn’t look like Gloria.

Walking the footsteps of Jose Rizal. Lee Phei was going the wrong way :P

They made footprints of Jose Rizal’s final steps walking from his dungeon to the place where he would be executed in Rizal Park in Bagumbayan. The footprints ended at the exit gate of Fort Santiago where Arthur said, “Then he magically teleported himself to Bagumbayan.” That’s not a quote. I don’t remember your words exactly :P

The moat outside the fort. I wonder if it goes around.

The entrance of the fort.

Going in…

All the statues have the same pose. Except this one which decided to lean forward.

Falling wall???

From the inside looking out.

We managed to catch the sunset this time but unfortunately it was too cloudy. I was told that this is where you can find one of the world’s most beautiful sunsets. Although I didn’t get to see it I guess it’s true since there were many people with their professional cameras trying to catch the sunset. Soon the cloudy sky turned dark, the wind grew stronger, and the waves were threatening to swallow you. Just to show you how strong the waves were, it splashed onto us who were sitting like 10 feet away. Then it began to drizzle. Perhaps the anticipated storm was about to come? We were greeted by the news that a storm was on its way the first day we got here. Luckily it didn’t.

We crossed the road from Manila Bay where we saw the sunset to Rizal Park.

Before that we took a picture of the Kilometer Zero which serves as a point of origin to all other cities in Philippines.