First time in Philippines - First Impression of Philippines 🇵🇭

you'll just take me down there yeah no problem about money there are certain unique things about the Philippines that can be controversial among visitors and travellers and flashback to the time we were first time traveling to the Philippines we have always wanted to share our first impression we thought with you here and here a top 10 first impression we got from the Philippines that blow our mind away completely as a foreigners these are things we think are gonna put you in chuckling moment and might amaze you as well about the Philippines and in this video you basically see our first impression toward the Philippines categorized into two main paths which would be the first impression we got from people of the Philippines and the impression we got from the country itself if you are solo travelers especially or if you want to make local friends wherever you go you will love it here in the Philippines there is no problem to make friends here or from our experience Filipinos are great at initiating the conversations they can come up with so many questions to ask you and stories to tell you and that totally makes you feel welcome and comfortable as a travelers helping to eat in South Korea I was in the military school it's impossible that you will feel ignored or lonely in the Philippines as long as you are open to the locals here Filipino kids we offer high five with your first locals we say hi a wave at you first people seems to be very interested when they know you are travelling to their countries and to the next level that we experience they will even invite you to eat with them and their family as well we just saw it on the side of the road nigga come on come on come on try it try it try it every sentence seems to end with po we experienced this greatly in terms of salamat po which at first we think all together means thank you and then after spending time in the Philippines for a while we came to find out that it's actually so hard to find the exact meaning for po po is added among the Filipinos basically to show politeness it's kind of like saying kha or cop in Thailand speaking of politeness it seems like in the Philippines it is common to address everybody as ma'am or sir which the title is not about feeling superior or inferior or the status of hierarchy but simply a matter of showing respect greater respect in my opinion because not only did we hear from the waitress or waitresses in the restaurants call us sir or ma'am but anybody we met called the Sara ma'am seriously there's no other country where we were called sir ma'am as frequently as we were in the Philippines from that karaoke of course you buy in the Philippines and the first thing you get is a red horse and you hear karaoke Philippines is the land of cotton and singing we noticed people sing her okay almost everywhere we happy new in the Philippines it was really good that I heard it actually most of filipinos are really good at speaking okay speaking of fast food chain in Southeast Asia anywhere we go we will always see the dominance in McDonald which the popularity among locals and number of stores seem to outweigh the local fast food restaurant or fast food chains of course McDonald is world's largest full-service organization however here in the Philippines we instead notice more numbers of local fast food setup especially the popularity of Jollibee which we see them more than we see McDonald's one advantage Jollibee had was offering hamburgers and other fast food with the this thing Filipino flavor pineapple with the order is very very crispy very good for instant jolly spaghetti has a sweet meat sauce with hot dogs light fun fact jollibee has capture more than 65 percent market share of hamburger market in the Philippines so here if you are in the Philippines and sometimes you feel the need of having some burgers some fast food fried chicken a spaghetti the best way to still feel local Filipino style taste and eat fast food at the same time you should not miss jolly Beadon to be honest with you before going to the Philippines we have no idea what is the history behind a country itself we have just heard about the beauty of the country from so many people we met by traveling but when we arrived there all the names either street name city name island name people name what is your name again da name some sentences sounds so spanish to us some architecture also look very Spanish influence some of people we met there even can speak Spanish together with Tagalog and English fun factor do you know that even the name of Philippines itself was given to honor the king philip ii of spain food in the philippines offers a variety of tastes that cater to almost everybody's liking but one noticeable thing that filipinos is fond of is eating pork you will be able to get pork everywhere you go especially in Seibu one of the more popular foods of the Philippines on special occasions is lei Sean which is a whole pig roasted over a charcoal fire for the meat lovers you will love the Philippines and for vegetable lovers you really won't see as much vegetables you will see some but you will mainly see lots of money in the Philippines is no problem if you are in need of help you will get help and money does not matter in this case Wow and I would say this is actually really really shocking to me Hunan Moonan waterfall no monk belongs oh yeah he should be right down there right who gave you I have like 25 pesos in my pocket man I don't know I can't afford a guide I have no faith or guide you in genetic weight do you know you'll just take me down there yeah no problem about money okay all right thank you when we broke down in southern say boo on our motorbike we were far far away from the city limits where we can't get the motorbike fix we were stranded but the Filipinos came to help us and fix the motorbike and incredibly when we offered them money they did not want any money in return let us know in the comments below if you feel like these things we share with you will blow your mind away as well as we hope this video is helpful for you and managing your expectations on what you might see and experience while being in the Philippines by no means do we want to criticize this country we are here to basically share our experience we have had with you and we do believe that once in a lifetime you have to visit this country the Philippines has plenty to offer to everybody either the best island getaways mountains stunning nature food culture and even people thank you so much for watching and if you're planning your trip to the Philippines make sure you check out our travel essential and packing checklist completely free at divert living.com or below in the description box

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Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 09 2018