Street Side Grottos

These fantastic grottos pop up randomly in street corners all over Metro Manila. They’re really cool, and more often than not, we overlook them. Some are too big to be ignored, but many are really small, just perched in front of some tree or hidden behind a parked car in a narrow street corner. You can only see a bit of the grotto’s blue frame peeking out.

These grottos have different personalities. In some, the statue is barely recognizable as Virgin Mary, like this one. It looks like some cute cartoon. But it’s all good. In some, you can see the types of bottles the residents of that street chose to use as vases. Some are Gatorade bottles, some are mineral water bottles.

So all you travel fiends who leave on holiday claiming that the Philippines has nothing good to see, or you blind city people who escape from Manila to the beaches claiming there’s nothing picturesque in the city. Look again!