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A Walking Guide: Makati in 10 Minutes

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Make it happen in Makati!

With its distinctive, bustling metro vibe, Makati remains to be the country’s premier hub for business, lifestyle, entertainment and culture. Superb lifestyle and entertainment picks, as well as sprawling greeneries and soaring skyscrapers, provide urban explorers like you with the ideal playground to discover Makati’s well-loved treasures and uncover its captivating pleasures. 

With the Ayala Triangle as your take-off point, the maps featured here are designed to help make the most of your journey—on foot—as you find your way around the vicinity. You’ll find quick directions on getting to landmarks, shops, dining place, parks, and other areas of interest. 

So whether you want to make it relaxing, refreshing or remarkable, we hope you make it a day for walking and discovery! Make it happen in Makati!

Around Makati in 10 minutes

Walking is an excellent way to explore a city—not only because the neighborhood is being revitalized for walkability, but also for its environmental and health benefits. Do you know that it takes 2,362 steps—enough to burn roughly 113 calories—to walk the length of Ayala Avenue from Sen. Gil Puyat heading to EDSA?

No other urban center in the country can boast of paving the ultimate connectivity and safety between its locales. It’s no wonder 500,000 people walk along Ayala Avenue every day! From the Ayala Triangle, a network of paths weaves through the central area to provide a more pleasurable walking experience, as well as help reduce pedestrian accidents and ease traffic congestion. 

Watch out for the pedestrian underpasses along Ayala Avenue, which makes crossing this main thoroughfare more convenient. If you wish to shuttle between the shopping areas of Glorietta and Greenbelt, take the more scenic trail via the connecting elevated walkways between them, which also extend outward to the business district streets of Dela Rosa and V. A. Rufino. 

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Walk it, spot it: 8 things to know about Makati

1. Built in 1937, the Nielsen Tower is the only existing pre-war structure in the city. Flanked by Ayala Avenue and Paseo de Roxas, the two former runways of the Nielsen Airport, it now houses the Filipinas Heritage Library.
2. For an invigorating walk, leisurely dining, or mere people watching, the Ayala Triangle Gardens offers all these options amidst a quiet oasis of landscaped greens.
3. There are only 4 Grade AAA buildings in the country, and all are located within the Makati Central Business District, along Ayala Avenue: Ayala Tower One & Exchange Plaza, RCBC Plaza, Enterprise Center, and PhilAm Tower.
4. With seven pedestrian underpasses and a 700-meter long elevated walkway, the Makati Central Business District boasts of having the first and largest pedestrian network in the Philippines. 
5. 185 trees and 148 energy-efficient lampposts will rise along Ayala Avenue soon—creating better sidewalk shading and illumination in the greenest way possible. 
6. If you desire a more upbeat experience in dining, shopping, or entertainment, head in the southeastward direction of Glorietta or Greenbelt mall areas. 
7. Four monuments of Filipino heroes border the Ayala Triangle: the bronze memorial of slain senator Ninoy Aquino; the shrine of Katipunero leader Pio del Pilar, “Hero of Makati”; the marker of 16th century Muslim leader Sultan Kudarat; and the monument of revolt leader Gabriela Silang.