Teas and Travels

It feels great to be on top of the world. You'll see ant-sized structures while getting caressed by a gush of cold wind. The People's Park in Tagaytay City is one such a place. The view is amazing as one can see a larger part of the provinces of Batangas and Cavite and the Taal Volcano. The park, known as the People's Park in the Sky is allegedly constructed during the Marcos period in preparation for the visit of then President Ronald Reagan and his wife. It was earlier named as the Palace in the Sky. The the trip of the then US First Couple was canceled and the palace was never finished. Remnants of the construction are still evident. Today the park is renamed as People's Park in the Sky and is one of the major attractions in Tagaytay City. The best time to visit the park is at daytime when there are no rain showers.

Manila Bay has woven not only history but also poetry. Its sunset has inspired a number of stories of love and war, of life and death, of hope and desperation. In some sense, Manila Bay is better than the Manila Ocean Park where the products of the mall and souvenir shops outnumber the marine species to see. The view of the bay is better when the day and the night are playing tug-of-war with each other. That is also the period when lights start to appear from the sea while the trashes thrown in the waters of the bay starts to vanish from the naked eye at least temporarily.