We'd decided to have a look around the middle of Siquijor today on account of there being some manner of cave there and also the highest point on the island. There's also, somewhat randomly, a butterfly sanctuary. It's ₱100 each to get in which won't have your bank account dropping to its knees in anguish [...]
Weeeellll yesterday was the write off it absolutely deserved to be. I was tempted to chuck several of my internal organs into the pool at the balete tree just to have the fish give them a good clean. I swear I can still hear my liver gently weeping. Friday night at Czars is the biggest [...]
Siquijor very nearly didn't happen for us. On account of parts of Mindanao currently being a war zone the foreign travel advice map wasn't looking good for travel to several Filipino islands. Large parts of the south are swathed in "don't even fucking think about going there" red, and many surrounding areas, including Siquijor, are [...]
Yesterday was Tarrant's birthday and we decided to rent another scooter and head up to Osmeña Peak, the highest point in Cebu, because nothing says "happy birthday, baby, I love you" like hiking up a massive fucking hill. Never let it be said that I don't know how to treat a woman. A couple of [...]
Next stop was going to be Moalboal on Cebu on account of it being a cool little backpacker enclave and a good base to explore a load of stuff around the south of the island, but by the time we'd ferried over from Tagbilaran to Cebu City the next bus to Moalboal would have gotten [...]
A notable difference between scooting around Bohol versus Bali in Indonesia (aside from the obvious lack of elaborate Hindu temples here) is the abundance of petrol stations in Bohol. Of course they have them in Bali too, there just doesn't seem to be as many and we often found ourselves filling up at small shops [...]
There are pros and cons to visiting waterfalls in the wet season. On one hand you know there'll be water in those bad boys. We're not talking a trickle, I mean there'll be full on gushing torrents of H2O. They will be awesome in the genuine sense of the word and not in the way [...]
There are these waterfalls called Can-Umantad Falls and we really wanted to see them but we also really didn't want to end up in a ditch. Again. We spent ages bouncing along an unsealed road that, of course, got worse and worse the further we got from the main road, but then you reach a [...]
We decided to fly from Legazpi to the Visayas rather than travelling overland/water via Leyte just so we could spend those extra few days up in north Luzon, and so we could squeeze a cheeky little trip to Caramoan in. Flights here aren't going to have your bank account curling up in a dark corner [...]
We duly rocked up to Bicol Adventure ATV by 7am, shuffling past the touts because shuffling is the only forward movement possible when you've been up since some god awful hour again, easily fending them off this time with a grumpy, "yeah we've already done it." Rowel was ready and waiting for us with two [...]
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