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Thursday, August 21, 2008
If you come to the Philippines for a vacation, did you know that you can drive without need of obtaining a Philippine Driver’s License? It’s true. As long as you have a license from your home country, you may drive here using that license. That, however, is only good for 90 days from the time [...]
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
I get a lot of inquiries from people wanting to rent a car during their vacation or holiday in the Philippines. In general, I do not recommend that you rent a car and drive yourself here, especially on your first visit. Why? Well, because driving is a little different here, there are not set rules [...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Whenever a person visits the Philippines for the first time, the most likely thing they comment on is the driving here. It is certainly a different style of driving from most of the Western Countries in the world. Many foreigners who visit here, even many who live here comment to me that they could never [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2007
As I said in a previous post, I own my own vehicle, a Mitsubishi small SUV. The next thing that people ask is this - “do you have a driver?” No, I don’t. I drive myself. I would not have it any other way.
As I said in a previous post, in [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
In the past, when I have written about various subjects on this site, in the comments the Jeepney has been brought up in the discussion. One vocal commenter has said quite clearly that the Jeepney is not and should not be considered as part of the Philippine culture. In my view, the Jeepney [...]
