Manila

Museo Pambata

August 10, 2011 / Filed Under: Manila, Museums, travels

Museums are one of the best places to take your kids to stimulate learning. The thing is, with adult museums, the exhibits are often off limits to the touch and is of less interest to children.

Museo Pambata is a hands-on museum that encourages children to explore, understand and learn by letting them touch, smell and experience different things in an interactive and fun environment.

The entrance fee is P100 per person.

There are eight theme rooms that children can explore and experience…

The Kalikasan/Environment room is all about mother nature.

The Old Manila room takes you to what Manila looks like when grandma and granpa were children. It showcases the clothes, the household furnitures and even the old typewriters and cameras.

The Global Village room showcases the costumes, toys and musical instruments of children around the world.

The Marketplace room is like a mini-village, there’s a barber shop, drug-store, newspaper store, wet market and even a mini-bahay kubo {nipa-hut} where children can play pretend.

The Environmental room is about being green and loving the planet.

The Body Works room has a lifesize tunnel where you can take a journey inside the human body. Ykaie is scared to have hr photo taken inside the big mouth.

The Career Options room showcases children’s books which helps in visualizing what the children want when they grow up.

The last room is the Karapatan Hall which is dedictaed to the rights of the children.

Museo Pambata
Roxas Boulevard corner South Drive
Manila, Philippines 1000

Rizal Park Children’s Playground

August 4, 2011 / Filed Under: Manila, park, playground, travels

The last time I’ve been to the Children’s Playground was last March 2009. I brought one-year old ykaie to see the playground. Back then the playground looks sad because the paints are old and they were already chipped. Good thing it was renovated and restored by the Department of Tourism through the National Parks Development Committee late last year. Now, children can enjoy a beautiful playground at a very affordable price.

Last month, Sis and I took Ykaie, Thea and Cyra to the Children’s Playground. The entrance for both adult and child is P10.

I can still remember my tatay {father} taking me and my cousin Karen here a long time ago. The entrance fee back then was around P1 per person. Can you imagine how cheap it was? Tatay would let us play around the park to our heart’s content. Then he would buy us dirty ice creams and would treat us to Lugaw {Congee}. Yeah, I don’t think there was a Jollibee near the park at that time and I guess tatay is too stingy {kuripot}. LOL!

But those were real fun times!

Now, it’s ykaie’s turn to have fun with her cousins at the playground.

This giant shoe reminded me of a nursery rhyme:

“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.

She gave them some broth without any bread;

And whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.”

Ykaie went up the top of the giant shoe but cried because she doesn’t know how to go down the step ladder. I went inside to get her and brought her down.

It’s a good thing that now there are stores selling snacks inside the playground where you can buy chips, hotdogs, candies, siopao, sodas and snow cones!

Looks like the pumpkin has a worm inside…..ooops, it’s ykaie.

AT THE SLIDES:

Ykaie is sliding like a worm…..LOL!

Pretty little monkeys at the monkey bars!

After the kids got tired, we were all sweat, dirt and smiles!!

And the question of the day is: When are we going back??

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Manila Zoo

March 9, 2010 / Filed Under: Manila, travels, Zoo

I wanted to take Ykaie to Manila Zoo because I had such a great time as a kid there and I wanted her to see more animals. Admission for adults cost P40 and for children below 4 ft it’s P20.

Manila Zoo

The Manila Zoo that we visited is not the Manila Zoo that I’ve known as a kid anymore.Cages are being renovated as well as other areas of the zoo but there are less animals.Most of the animals are poorly taken care of and there are no giraffe or even a lion in sight.

We saw tigers, monkey, snake, iguana, ostrich, philippine deer, zebra, horses, hippo, different kinds of birds and an elephant.

Manila Zoo

There is also a small zoo inside the Manila Zoo called Kinder Zoo where you can pet the animals and take your pictures with them. Admission here costs P65 per person. You can take your pictures with different kinds of birds, an ostrich, a snake, a wild boar, a small crocodile,a turtle and a baby monkey.

THE BIRDS

I think Ykaie is a little bit scared with the birds, maybe because she can feel the claws in her head…

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Ykaie and daddy

Manila Zoo

Cousin Roman

OSTRICH SHOTS

Manila Zoo

…with daddy and mommy♥

THE NEWEST MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY (LOLz)

Manila Zoo

…baby monkey

Manila Zoo

ykaie doesn’t wanna carry the monkey but is afraid to let go of it either because it might fall and she knows that falling might hurt the baby monkey.

THE 20-YEAR-OLD TURTLE

ate chellie and ykaie

not scared with the big turtle—at all!

and that concludes our day at the Zoo.

I wonder where our next stop will be