Driving in Philippines

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Sat 19 Jan 2008 16:17
Driving in Philippines - uk_in_usa
Anybody here ever done this?

If you look online everybody says how terrible it is. The last time we were there, we had a driver. I thought at the time, it didn't look too bad. The congestion was really nothing worse than the Strand or Hanger lane as far as I can see, and I really didn't feel people were all that reckless. Next time I thought I'd be content to drive myself. One good thing with the driver is not having to circle round looking for (scarce) parking though.

Thoughts?
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Sun 20 Jan 2008 11:45
Driving in Philippines - ajit
If you do a search for well written posts by The Growler who sadly is longer with us. He gives a lot of detail. the issue is that if something goes wrong, you are toastas the locals/ police will fleece you.

Traffic seemed okay to me until one rainy night getting to Alabang, the driver was doing 70 on the hard shoulder
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