Questions: Travel

This is a tough one. Washington is arguably the most beautiful state in the whole country, but Colorado is the Switzerland of America.

Please leave politics out people. We’re talking about beauty

The weird mix of the Philippines gives it less culture shock value also because of westernization and the lack of artistic fusion, it makes everything "familiar" and just direct imports losing it's culture shock value. Pre dominantly a Christian nation, the identifiable Spanish influences with obscured diversity suppressed and stereotyped by capital cities. That's why a lot feels unmixed and with Christianity and westernization being the dominant culture. But still, we get plenty of historically Chinese and now Korean migrants and investors, many Islamic groups from the south even moving to the north, Asian style street foods, wet markets, diverse outfits, Asian style sky scrapers, poverty, noodle dishes and rice everything with people generally looking like Austronesians also the dense city crowds, and loud motorcycles everywhere. That's why it gets plenty of mixed opinions every time. But either way, don't mind. They're all cool.