Tagaytay part 2: Philippines Spring Festival 2024.

Once we had seen the volcano there really wasn't much else to do in Tagaytay. We spent a long time in restaurants and bars with amazing views, and beer of course. Sadly the town is not pedestrian friendly so wandering about has a treacherous feel when you're on the side of main roads with cars and lorries speeding past at a few centimeters distance. 

Dan found a small theme park like place that he wanted to visit so we made our way over to 'Sky Ranch' a small theme park perched on the top of a cliff. 

We found ourselves in a serious of long queues that were all very confusing. Basically entrance is very cheap, less than 2 pound per person, but then you pay for each ride separately. Each one costing about 2 pound so it has potential to mount up. It didn't, we weren't too fussed about most of them but did go on a pirate ship, naturally, and the ferris wheel. Again, naturally. I think we might have been the only people in the park without kids. Most rides were designed for small children so we were a little too old. Theme parks really aren't my thing but the wheel gave us the most beautiful views of the lake and the volcano so I was happy. 

Outside the park, we found a very nice large craft beer place where we got comfy for a few hours. Just as we were leaving the staff took us and a few other tables of customers on a tour of the brewing operations which we thought was  really nice touch.  

Other than the park, we couldn't really find much to do in the tiny town of Tagaytay. We had some amazing food, tasty beers and met some very friendly people. All in all a very chilled trip. 

Next stop Makati, Manila. We got the bus, which turned out to be a fairly horrific experience. I don't do well traveling anyway so being in a hot, cramped, uncomfortable bus for four hours was my idea of hell. We were finally thrown off the bus on the side of a highway thing near Manila airport. We stopped in a KFC so I could calm down before getting a grab to our hotel in town. 

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