RADD Race - The Little Mermaid

The geocachers in Manila are concentrated around Bonafacio Global City (BGC), an area of wide avenues, tall skyscrapers, restaurants, open spaces, and shops - or in other words, a magnet for dayuhans / AFAMs (foreigners). Picked up another FTF here but still can’t find another one nearby. It’s cat city around here too. They have dedicated feeding areas. 🐈

Some caching in the capital of Palawan, Puerto Princesa. Don’t get too excited. As is often the case in the Philippines, you need to bring your own cache to find. I’m always torn between putting in a throw down or there not being a cache at all. I’ve decided that since I’m technically a local cacher, I’ll help out the geocaching community here (but nowhere else). Great night market here with good food. Missing the mango and guanabana smoothies from the juice stall in Sabang Village though, they are the best. 🥭

You hit the shops today for this cache outside SM Megamall in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong, Manila. It’s the third largest shopping mall in the Philippines and the thirteenth largest in the world. The mall is easy walking distance to my home so I’m here fairly often. Filipinos love shopping malls. They have four of the largest 20 in the world, three of which are in Manila. I have six malls that I can easily walk to. It’s basically wall to wall malls. You walk through malls to get to other malls. They mostly all have the same shops. I think most people come for the aircon. 🛍️

Maligayang pagdating sa Pilipinas. Welcome to The Philippines. Technically, I live in Manila even though I don’t turn up here very often. Thanks to jet lag, I was up early for a FTF on this cache. Some new caches have been published since my last visit so it’s very exciting. There are very few caches here. This one was not far from my home in the new development of Estancia. Home for a rest now. I’m not used to this heat. 🇵🇭

أهلا بك في الإمارات العربية المتحدة. Welcome to the United Arab Emirates. After landing in Dubai, you hopped on the metro, then a tram, then a monorail, and then walked along the seafront past Atlantis The Palm to a cache. It’s on the furthest point of the of the reclaimed land islands called the Palm Jameirah which are in the shape of a date palm. No time for the water slides. 🇦🇪