TriNoma

TRINOMA

TriNoma (Triangle North of Manila) is a large shopping mall in Quezon City, Philippines, owned by property development firm Ayala Land. Opened in 2007, the mall is located on the side of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, east of the North Avenue MRT Station in Quezon City, giving significant market competition to the nearby SM City North EDSA as one of the largest malls in Metro Manila. It is also one of two malls that will be serving Ayala Land's Vertis North township, which is located beside the mall, along with a new lifestyle block mall (similar to Makati's Greenbelt, which was also developed by Ayala Malls) that has been planned within the currently in-progress township.

This is one of the newest addition to the growing list of Shopping Malls in Manila. is an upscale shopping center located on the corner of North Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Quezon City, Philippines. Its location at the end of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) train makes it more easily accessible among all new malls.

Trinoma will play host to more than 550 high-end shopping and retail establishments. It will boast of flagship stores which are not only the largest, but also the best out of a brand's chain of establishments.

On the Entertainment side: It has 6 digital cinemas and 1 THX cinema. A Timezone, the flagship and largest Philippine location (a computer gaming area), RedBox Karaoke and
Activity Center.

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La Mesa Ecopark

LA MESA ECOPARK

The La Mesa Ecopark in Quezon City is a well-developed sanctuary around the La Mesa Watershed via a joint partnership between MWSS, ABS-CBN, and Quezon City. The public park spans 33 hectares aims to preserve and protect the La Mesa Watershed, not only by generating revenues, but also promoting environmental awareness in saving the environment. Primary focus of the EcoPark is for outdoor recreation and forest experience. Students, families, environmentalist, tourist, fitness buffs flock the park everyday, seeing it as an alternative to the shopping malls in the metropolis.

The La Mesa Watershed and Eco-Park consists of the La Mesa Dam and an ecological nature reserve site in Quezon City commissioned in 1929 in the Philippines.[1] It is part of the Angat-Ipo-La Mesa water system, which supplies most of the water supply of Metro Manila. The La Mesa Dam is an earth dam whose reservoir can hold up to 50.5 million cubic meters and occupying an area of 27 square kilometers.

The water collected in the reservoir is treated on-site by the Maynilad Water Services, and at the Balara Treatment Plant further south by the Manila Water. Both water companies are private concessionaires awarded by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, the government agency in charge of water supply. It is a vital link to the water requirements of 12 million residents of Metro Manila considering that 1.5 million liters of water pass through this reservoir everyday. It is also the last forest of its size in the metropolis.

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Quezon Memorial National Park and Shrine

QUEZON MEMORIAL NATIONAL PARK AND SHRINE

 The Quezon Memorial is a national park and shrine encircled by an elliptical road, a fitting tribute to the First President of the Philippine Commonwealth, Manuel Luis Quezon.

Considered one of the country’s premier landmarks, the monument, built in the center of the 27-hectare rotunda park, is the tallest structure in the city, piercing 66 meters to the sky.

The memorial includes two small museums installed within the monument itself: one housing priceless memorabilia of Quezon, and the other containing items on the history of the city. A mausoleum houses the remains of the President, laid to rest in a bronze casket and marble niche inside the shrine.

Around the foot of the monument are various reliefs depicting highlights from Philippine history, sculpted out of the marble base. 

I knew little about Quezon Memorial Circle not until I got a rented space for the weekend market there on August last year. After nine years when I first visited the place, numerous improvements were made in there. Before, it was a place barely compared to a little forest since there are plenty of trees that shade nature lovers and visitors. Back then, the circle is only for the joggers, bikers and family gathering. Now, it is well known for its amusement parks. Amenities and fun factories such as the zip line, the Circle of Fun, the Go Kart Station among others are built that attract people across the metropolis.

The park is located inside a large traffic circle in the shape of an ellipse and bounded by the Elliptical Road. If you going there by bus from EDSA, take a bus going to Fairview, Quezon City and drop by PhilCOA (abbreviation of Philippine Coconut Authority). From PhilCOA go across the overpass and walk going to the Circle. You may see a monument with three columns with angels on top. That’s the place. Then there’s an underpass just in front of the Philippine Coconut Authorities building. This leads to the heart of the Circle. And you’re in.

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