Makati City , PHILIPPINES

The City of Makati, or simply Makati, is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the greater metropolitan area of the national capital of the Philippines. It is the major financial, commercial and economical hub in the Philippines, often referred to as the financial capital of the Philippines since many global companies have their offices and headquarters in the city. Makati is also home to the influential Makati Business Club and the Philippine Stock Exchange. Ayala Avenue, running through the heart of the central business district is often called the Wall Street of the Philippines.[citation needed]

Makati is noted for its highly cosmopolitan culture, also being a major cultural and entertainment hub in Metro Manila. Many expatriates live and work in the city. Makati is also home to many first-class shopping malls, which are located at Ayala Center and Rockwell Center. Makati also has the tallest buidlings in the Philippines like PBCOM Tower, G.T. International Tower.

The city also has many of the country's five-star hotels like The Peninsula Manila, the Shangri-La Hotel Makati and the Intercontinental Hotel Manila. Independent business travelers also benefit from budget hotels like the Saint Illian's Inn, El Cielito Inn, The Copa Businessman's Hotel, and The City Garden Suites, while serviced apartments like The Salcedo Suites, Fraser Place Manila, The Sunette Tower, and The Oxford Suites are gaining in popularity among business-minded travelers as well.

Makati came from the Tagalog word kati, which means tide.[citation needed] This primarily refers to the rise and ebb of the tide of the Pasig River on the city's northern border. The city was also known as San Pedro Macati during the Spanish era.

Today the city is one of the most modern cities in the country and the Philippines' major global economic competitor in Asia.[citation needed] However, it faces challenges due to the disparate gap between the new city in the west, which contains the Central Business District, and the old city in the east, which is largely poor and where most of the city's slums are located.

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[viviandulkiewicz]

BeauMeJe... thank you for the video, very nice pictures of Makati. It made me miss the place. I practically live in Makati and it is my workplace from one company to another. I miss my officemates and how we get together and unwide or just lazy going around window shopping, browsing books in Powerbooks and Starbucks man!!!! Its also the venue where my family meet on weekends. Ohhh kaka miss talaga!

[BeauMeJe]

Don't worry VIV u r not the only one who's missing those places. I'm also one of thousands people who wants to get back in the place where we hate and we love at the same time.

[beachkid1]

how can any city with 10 million people and cars and pollution be beautiful......go out to the provinces and countryside to see BEAUTIFUL...AND BREATH CLEAN AIR

[BeauMeJe]

well, isn't it amazing how a city within the city developed to a big city... anyway, i don't mind living in a crowded place or in a ghost town province as long as there is internet signal.. i don't have a problem.

[dmgcolorado556]

Beautiful place!

[BeauMeJe]

Indeed.. thanks much....DMG..

[blue7159]

wow that place looks so beautiful i have a friend that lives in makati we met on fb lol i wud love to go there one day

[summ22]

is it dangerous there?

[dan020992]

@BeauMeJe makati is one of the richest city in the phils.sana ganito sa buong bansa!

[MrPowerific]

Ah Makati, home of wealthy Filipinos, corrupt politicians and their pimp sons with their high price call girls, while beggars are in the streets and slums a couple of miles away, a place with enough pesos you can get your fiance stateside in 3 weeks, not 6-7 months as all the others, where it's who you know and has little to do with the law... Ah, Makati...

[amari472004]

Thanks for posting this, love the pictures as well as the background music.

[sawyerbobby]

to make long story short,Makati is the Manhattan of Manila if not the Philippines,except for the bigger malls and vast variety of activities.

[mtdelapena1]

nice vid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[MrPokerman5250]

I bet ! most of the guys posting in here, never been to other countries ! But, to those who had been to other counties,  Please ! be truthful to yourselves !

[sseptony]

My opinion is that Philippine city is the most pretty place ever!