The Intramuros section of Manila, Philippines is the historic walled core, of this Capital City. Today, the surrounding stone walls are  ringed by a golf course, in lieu of the moat from long ago. Below shows comparison from rendering 300 years ago, under Spanish Colonization to Today. Many of the historic buildings, churches, fort and prison remain. Kimberly and I walked it for over 4 hours, and we saw maybe a quarter of it. We sadly gave up due to the heat, humidity and our exhausted feet and missed the Corpus Christi procession to the Manila Cathedral with the Bishop, by just a half hour! If only we had known ahead of time!

One of my favorite parts of the walk was meeting all the little kids in the streets. They were not shy and so curious! Sadly some did ask for food, candy or money. I shared some caramel hard candies I had with them.

Here's what we missed from the Corpus Christy Procession! The shower of flower petal, when The Blessed Sacrament went up to altar, looked very cool - images all from the Manila Cathedral facebook page!

Got a super refreshing drink from street vendor right before leaving the Intramuros area - cucumber and lemon juice on ice. So good! We weren't hungry, but would have liked to try the corn dogs covered in french fries! I did have a Cloud 9 bar day before - it is the top selling candy in the Philippines - their version of a Snickers bar. Snickers is better, there's is more caramel than peanuts!