For my 35th birthday, I decided to do a two-hour tour of Manila, hence the Manila Diary. On the way home from Baclaran after hearing mass, I had a photo taken at the KM 1 marker, and then at Luneta Park. I felt like a tourist while doing this just for the fun of it!

While I have been to Luneta countless of times, I have never been there like a tourist, hi hi hi. Its either I am a mom accompanying her kid on a field trip at the Diorama of the Martyrdom of Rizal, or just there for a picnic and some exercise. So for my birthday, I wanted to see some sites as though I am from another place. And it was fun and exciting, and thrilling! We wanted to see as much of Manila as we can, while on a motorccyle! It was fun, and I wanna do it again!

For more info on Luneta Park, check this and this.

Next stop, Fort Santiago.

This is the KM 1 marker of Manila which is at the Roxas Boulevard , near Manila Bay. This is the first stop of my Manila Diary.
There is also a KM 1 marker at the back of Intramuros in Manila, but I was not able to take a photo because of the traffic. If you want to know what the KM marker means and how to read it, please refer to this post and this post. You may also want to check out this post. Some may ask why I have a photo of the KM 1 and not the KM 0? Well, my journey of the Philippine archipelago has already started and I want to use this KM 1 post as marker for all my future journeys. I have traveled as far Palawan and Cebu and Bohol but I want to travel further. This is the beginning and this Manila Diary is just another way to do it. Why not visit the seat of the city and document it here? I have been to Fort San Pedro in Cebu, but have never been inside Fort Santiago so I guess something is lacking in my travel education. So, this post is the start of that education :)

I think I need to explain the image above. That is the Kilometer 1 marker of the Philippines. The KM 0 marker is located near the Rizal Monument and so I have traveled just 1 KM of the marker. My goal is to document my newest adventure: that of traveling farthest from this marker, preferably out of the country or just the farthest in the Philippines.