calesa

(kaˈlesa)

a horse drawn buggy, once common in the Philippines but now mainly used as a tourist attraction

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Other activities include donkey ride, calesa ride and animal petting and feeding.

A better integrated solution is to make the Chinese-donated bridge a pedestrian and "calesa" bridge; have a bridge for container vans using Del Pan and expanding both the Jones and Quezon bridges (where there is a daily traffic standstill).

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To bring out this theme, the tree has representations of jeepneys, the calesa (horse-drawn cart) and sorbetes (ice cream) cart.

PHL-themed tree, lights bring early Christmas cheer at airports

'Nasa Calesa Bar pa lang ang Side A noon, at the old Hyatt Hotel,' Sharon shared.

A cause for celebration

The fifth chapter, A cochero's Christmas eve, tells of a calesa driver, a cochero, who has been detained by the guardia civil because he was missing his cedula, the obligatory identification card of Spanish colonialism.

Pamitinan and Tapusi: Using the Carpio legend to reconstruct lower-class consciousness in the late Spanish Philippines

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