Not far from Naga is a place called Caramoan which has a group of islands made famous on account of many of the Survivor programs being shot there. I've not seen any of them, I like reality TV about as much as I like being stabbed in the face. Oh and when I say "not [...]
I pretty much had to be dragged away from north Luzon. I'd have been kicking and screaming but it's unseemly, plus I had no fucking energy left from climbing up and down hills that could legally be defined as vertical. Germaine's cousin portered our bags up the hill from Batad to the end of the [...]
We did want to check out some manner of lookout way up yonder but Germaine quickly talked us out of that by simply pulling a face like we'd just told her we wanted to hop to Manila on one leg. Backwards. Naked. She well and truly pissed on that bonfire when she followed this face [...]
Getting from Buscalan to Batad is a three jeepney effort with Francis, our Buscalan guide, getting us to Turning Point in time for the 8.30am public jeepney. The walk out is mercifully less traumatic than the walk in and was completed with minimum crying. We immediately scrambled to the roof of the jeepney to top-load [...]
Just the village of Buscalan alone is worth the lung searing trek, but the reason people flock here is Whang Od. If you want to be tattooed by her it's absolutely possible if you're happy to wait, and many people are. These days it's common to have someone else do your main tattoo then go [...]
That thing when you're idly Googling for information on a region with little to no tourist infrastructure and all your research keeps coming back to one particular village which just happens to be home to a legendary traditional tattoo artist so you take it as a sign and start planning your trip there because basically, [...]
We've not dragged out sleep deprived carcasses out of bed for a sunrise for a while and apparently Kiltepan Peak is the place to go. We knew we could get a car to take us there for ₱350 (good for as many humans as you can fit in the car I guess?) but we didn't [...]
In all of my infinite wisdom I booked us a super early flight from Singapore to Manila, the method in the madness being that we'd get to spend a whole day in Singapore then head to the airport and not have to fork out for a night's accommodation but it turned out there is more [...]
All of the moisture in my head had been replaced with sand in the night. I looked around for the badger whose arse I felt like I'd been licking. Ugh. Fuck alcohol, I'm never drinking again* (* Terms and conditions apply). The gorgeous shower at the hostel went some way to restoring some shred of [...]
So kaya toast has been added firmly to the list of "shit I enjoy applying liberally to my facehole." We went to Ya Kun Kaya Toast where you can choose from set meals which include two soft boiled eggs cracked into a bowl and a cuppa, and when I say soft boiled I'm talking only [...]
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