City itineraries · Philippines

Manila, day by day

Manila is a walled Spanish city of 1571 inside a Southeast Asian megacity of 14 million, with a fort where the national hero spent his last night, a baroque church that survived the war that flattened everything else, three free national museums in a row, the oldest Chinatown in the world, a bay that does the most famous sunset in Asia, and, across the river of traffic, the glass towers, galleries and restaurants of Makati and Bonifacio Global City. Start with three days that walk Intramuros, the museums and Binondo, and give the modern city its due, with the prices and hours the institutions publish for 2026.

Updated 12 September 2026 · 4 official sources checked · report an error