Blogs from Panglao, Bohol, Philippines, Asia - page 2

Wow, it's been ages, you musta been missing us loads! Since Siquijor we have been to Bohol and Camiguin. Bohol (Panglao island) was the wicked place with our own bamboo hut where we had to shower outside and a Gekko poo-ed on our bed...luckily 1 minute after Holly had got up. Panglao was pretty cool, our resort was quiet but a 5min motorbike ride away was beach strip with restaurants and an epic happy hour with rum & coke at a mighty 37p! We managed to get suitably sozzled and filled our tummies with delicious BBQ food at the price of £1.48. Bloody brilliant! We took a tour in a tricycle round the main tourist sites. Frankly we could have chosen a more comfortable method of transport but it made it more Filipino chic. We were ... read more

Coming to Bohol mainly for diving, and I have to say Bohol is such a perfect place for diving, so many diving site to choose and the underwater coral walls are so diverse, for a beginner like me, each dive is an adventure. Been busy with divings these five days, now I have completed the AOW course, suddenly feel a bit lost, what's next? I still want to dive more for certain, maybe a rescue course? Diving seems like a drug, can easily get people addicted to it. I am thinking of coming here again and stay for 2 or 3 months, learn diving and maybe work in a diving shop and live several months of simple life, here is just too good to go back to SH's office and sitting in a cubicle and work ... read more

Days 67 – 70 (Mon 12th –Thurs 15thNov) So after 3 days on Bohol island I moved to Panglao island. An off shoot from Bohol and very close to Tagbilaran where the main ferry and only airport on Bohol lies. I moved to Alona Beach on Panglao which is an awesome beach resort. I moved here mainly to take my PADI open water diving course. I’d done a bit of research about the course and where was best to take it in the Philippines and heard here was good for it as they had close and local reefs so that’s the reason I came. My course ran from Monday to Thursday lunch time. I did theory and videos etc on the Monday. I was due to do a confined water session in the pool but my ... read more

Sonntag, 1. April 2012 Beim Aufstehen mussten wir bereits feststellen, dass das Wetter sich wiederum zu unseren Ungunsten verschlechtert hatte. Den geplanten Islandhopping-Trip verschoben wird daher kurzerhand auf einen anderen Tag. Wir lasen am Morgen auf der Veranda und legten uns nach dem Lunch für eine ausgiebige Siesta hin. Als wir gegen halb vier aufwachten, hatten sich die Wolken verzogen und wir konnten doch noch ein paar Sonnenstunden am Strand erhaschen. Wir fotografierten den Sonnenuntergang und die bereits heranziehende nächste Gewitterzelle. Als wir um halb acht Uhr zum vereinbarten Abendessen gehen wollten, mussten wir feststellen, dass die Berichte, welche wir über Dan im Internet gelesen hatten, offenbar nicht übertrieben waren. Er stritt sich lautstark mit zwei weiblichen französischen Gästen und legte dabei ein Verhalten an den Tag, welches für einen Hoteli... read more

Well it had to happen sooner or later, my first mishap on this trip. The morning I was leaving Siquijor it was low tide so we had to take a very small traditional boat out to the diveboat which was anchored about 70 meters offshore. There was me, another tourist, and a 14 year old boatman, and as we were pulling up to the dive boat somehow we capsized and I went under the water with my daypack on my back which contained my camera, phone, wallet, and a few other things. Thank god that my backpack was already delivered to the dive boat earlier. To their credit the crew of the boat reacted very quickly when I passed my soaked daypack up to them they quickly took the contents out, took the batteries out of ... read more