Fort Santiago is so deeply involved with the history of the Philippine independence struggle from Spain. Dr Jose Rizal was executed here (he was one of the leaders of the independance movement, he was a published author and a deeply intellectual man).
The gate way is the enterance to Ft Santiago, and around the Fort is a moat, which has waterlilies growing in it. It looked lovely when we were there.
The second gate is called the postern gate or the Baluarte de Santa Barbara - and the next image tells you all about it!
The river that is in the pictures is the Pasig River that runs through Manila. Like most rivers over here it is awfully polluted, but the guide we had said that they have been working to try and clean the river up and that recently fish and sea grass started growing again..... which is a healthy sign
The only image that isnt in Ft Santiago is the one with the fountain in it - that is in Intramurros and is an historic house that they have done up as a 17th Century Spanish House - unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures in there.
This evening we met up with Carls' cousin Tofee and his wife Luvey for dinner at Rockwell - another massive shopping centre! there are so many huge shopping centres over here - they all look similar and they all have the same expensive signature stores. buying stuff in these places is no saving! However they are very clean and have wonderful cold airconditioning lol.
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