The guides will tell you, if you ask, that two entire exhibition rooms were Imelda's bedroom and a third was her walk-in closet. Imelda's bedroom has a hand-carved ceiling and chandeliers of VERY rare narra wood, native to the Philippines. The sound and lights show inside the tunnel at Corregidor was stun ning, shocking. This bastion was attacked by the Japanese shortly after Pearl Harbor. Overhead lights in the tunnel dim, flicker, go out briefly.
Dust showers down.
The place shakes. And nearby is the hut where Jonathan Wainwright surrendered. The next scheduled stops were two cities on the Chinese mainland, Shantou and Xiamen. We made it to Shantou, and it turned out to be a grim, smoggy industrial city of 700,000 or maybe 700 million. The loden-green waters of its harbor were filled with sleek gray gunboats.