Outdoor sights in Manila
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Rizal Park
Still widely known as 'Luneta' (its name until it was officially changed in the 1950s), Rizal Park is spread out over some 60 hectares of open lawns, ornamental gardens, paved walks and wooded areas, dotted with monuments to almost every Filipino hero you care to mention. It's a pretty area but also shabby in parts, dangerously so near the closed National Museum on P Burgos St.
Every day hundreds of Filipinos come here to stroll, jog, picnic, sing and play music, or just relax away from the swarming traffic. At dawn, various groups gather to practise t'ai chi or the local martial art of arnis, or arnis de mano, a pre-Hispanic style of stick-fighting. There are formalised …
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Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center
At Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center injured wildlife are nursed back to life. A few patients who never checked out are on display, including a Burmese python and various birds, reptiles and monkeys.
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