Singapore
Jose Mercado - Name Rizal used for his first travel.
do you think filipino people benefited from rizal's travel abraod?
may 3, 1882 rizal's departure for Spain was kept secret to avoid detection by the spanish authorities and the friars. rizal departed on board the spanish streamer salvadora bound for Singapore. with tears in his eyes and gloom in his heart, he gazed at the receding skyline of manila. he hastly took paper and pencil and sketched it as it vanished in view.
He use this name due to not so good publicity of their family name.
Jose Rizal studied abroad because the educational system abroad was far more better than that of his own country, the Philippines. Abroad, he will have more chances of learning and adapting better education so that when he comes back in his own country, the knowledge he gained can be used to help his country men.
Spain
The first Indian woman to travel abroad was Rukhmabai. She went to England in 1889 to study medicine.
marikina city
the last travel of Rizal abroad (as far as i know) was when he sailed up to Cuba to work as a physician but unfortunately, he was arrested in Spain and was brought back to Manila and was convicted for the case of rebellion against the Spanish colonial regime (it was because of the revolution of the Katipuneros) and on Dec. 30 1896 at 7:03 am,morning in bagumbayan, he was executed.
Spain
MARIA
Barcelona, Spain