Your tips Try to go out side Manila take a Jeepny book in on a local hotel, your eyes will then open up for a new beautiful view, nice nature, good people and beautiful beaches.
I have been traveling a lot to the Philippines, in the beginning only to Manila, but now Im going out in the country, trying to live togther with the local people, I found that they have a high degree of hospitality, often they invited me into there local primitive handcraft factories / rise farms ect, and its amazing to see how thay can make nothing to "Gold".