Before we start this blog, we'd like to draw your attention to our updated profile section, which we decided to update to reflect our experience of travelling after one year! It all started to go wrong stepping off our flight at Manila airport, we couldn't get to our luggage because there was so many people crowding around the conveyor belt, Donna got her ankles rammed by a woman trying to push in to the exit queue (yes, the exit queue!) and the taxi driver we got decided to take the piss. Every time we get to Manila, it all goes a [View Full Entry]

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We finally decided to drag ourselves away from the beach at Malapascua to head to Leyte so we could catch our flight back to Manila. For some reason we had a crazy idea to travel to Leyte (specifically Tacloban) for a flight, rather than backtrack on ourselves to Cebu and to see a new area of the Philippines. As it turns out this was the funniest and worst journey we had yet done...and we won't be having any more crazy ideas in the near future! On the day we left we were up bright and early (we even had time for [View Full Entry]

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We realise that we've been going on about our transport experiences over the last few of our blogs, but this is because travelling is all we've seemed to have done over the last couple of weeks. To be brief, the non air-con bus got us to the port town of Maya on record time owing to another determined speed demon driver (see the videos)! If anyone is interested the buses leave from 5am onwards from Cebu's Northern bus terminal, not something that is easy to find out! You have to leave Cebu early so you reach Maya around 9-10am so you [View Full Entry]

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...well you won't see Cebu in the pictures as we didn't take any. Our first blog with no pictures and the honest reason why is a combination of 3 things. The first being that where we were staying had a lot of dodgy people hanging around, the second being we were too lazy to take any and the third being that Cebu, like Manila, is not particularly photogenic and most of our time in Cebu was spent experiencing the Philippines various transport options! Our ferry from Siquijor to Dumaguete was again a vomit-fest because of the rough seas and again we [View Full Entry]

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...yes, we'll explain the blog title a little later. Our ferry ride to the island of Siquijor made approximately 70% of passengers and crew vomit. We played on the knowledge that Filipinos don't really like to sit next to Westerners (on all other journeys we have been avoided like the plague!) and took a bench each to lie down and sleep through the rough ride! Hee hee how awful are we? Siquijor is a volcanic and lush tropical island surrounded by superstition and intrigue as it is supposedly home to healers/witches with magical powers. Obviously this is bullshit, but we [View Full Entry]

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Seeings though our last but one blog captured your imaginations...well the title did anyway based on it zooming to the top of our blog hits, we thought we would continue the sex theme in the title, not that this blog has anything to do with sex! We'd also like to say that this blog is a bit of a rant of a blog about a place which really disappointed us! Our flight from Palawan to Cebu went without incident, that is except for a large group of Filipinos (the front half of the plane) who had possibly never flown before and [View Full Entry]

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The journey to El Nido We were up bright and early for our journey to El Nido, and only worried slightly when we put our backpacks on the jeepney an hour before we were due to leave and the driver promptly drove off with our bags still in the vehicle, leaving us in the street wondering if he was going to come back! Deciding not to worry we headed to Judy's and had some breakfast, and were relieved to see the jeepney drive past us back to it's starting location. We decided to stop off at the local shop to buy [View Full Entry]

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So we set off from Sabang at 8am headed for Port Barton in an outrigger big enough for 4 people, after persuading the boatmen that 6am really isn't a reasonable starting time. We shared the boat with a nice couple, Steve (from Belgium) and Whitney (from the US). One hour into the boat journey our boat broke down, bear in mind that Palawan is a very remote island and there are few boats sailing these waters and nothing even remotely resembling a coastguard ...we soon began to panic and question if there were sharks in these waters. Palawan isn't one of [View Full Entry]

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So we arrived into Sabang a little bit shook up, the Abortion road to Sabang had lived up to its name and Donna's boobs were hurting from all the bouncing up and down. Sabang itself is a sleepy village made up of around 5 resorts, all offering very similar standard of accommodation ie cottage with private bathroom and fan, all a stone's throw from the beach for between £4.50 and £6. We opted for the £6 cottage as it was on stilts (we hoped it would stop insects crawling in) and also had a flush toilet with toilet seat and everything! [View Full Entry]

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Ahhh - exotic Palawan...gorgeous beaches, pristine virgin rainforest, turquoise sea, waterfalls and underground rivers. Only one problem...you have to get there first! Finally we were leaving Manila...yey! Arriving at Manila's Domestic Terminal we were actually smiling but not for long as we were soon reminded of the ridiculously anal security transport measures in the Philippines. Examples of this are listed below: 1.You are not allowed into the airport terminal without a ticket and passport. Our ticket was booked online and the website just said to turn up with passport and booking num [View Full Entry]

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