http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Philippines , Cebu en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:25:47 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:25:47 UTC Ach jednak z powrotu na FIlipiny nic nie wyjdzie. Bilety sa za drogie. A szkoda. Swieta jednak na Tajwanie. Ale jeszcze kilka filipinskich wspomnien.Filipinczy potrafia sie cieszyc z tego co maja. A maja niewiele i zdaja sobie sprawe ze szybko moga utracic majatek bo ktos ich zaatakuje moga stracic rodzine z powodu powodzi moga stracic zycie bo nie ma co sie oszukiwac ze jest to kraj bezpi http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-348714.html Wir nahmen das 11 Uhr Boot zurueck nach Maya wo bereits der Bus nach Cebu City bereit stand. Nach einer guten halben Stunde Wartezeit setzte dieser sich dann auch in Bewegung fuer die vierstuendige landschaftlich ansprechende Fahrt die Kueste hinunter.Da es auf den Philippinen sehr frueh dunkel wird hatten wir jedoch gerade noch Zeit bei Helligkeit ein Zimmer zu finden. Wir kamen im Kukuks Nest http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-339288.html The Philippines Manila to Apo Island SEPT. 19 to OCT. 2 2008The Philippines about 90 million people living on 7000 islands voted the happiest people on our planet in a 2005 global survey reference The Lonely Planet who else. 90 are Christian mostly Roman Catholic and 5 are Muslim. As we travel around the country we have seen a distressing number of signs of varied Christian sects http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-335947.html 1100PM 09182008Leaving the OfficeI left the office on the night of Sep19 and hailed a cab going home. Fortunately i got an MGE taxi and while the driver was driving me home he asked if I was in a hurry. I told him a bit and mentioned that I have a flight at 4am going to Cebu with my girlfriend. He asked me if I want to be picked up I said Yes please pick us up between 100 and 130am.I http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Bantayan/Sta-Fe/blog-333486.html The Excess Baggage QueenhellipI am not what one would call a lsquolightrsquo traveller I never have been Each and every time I travel I always tell myself that next time I will be better. Next time I wont bring that extra pair or two of shoes that I didnrsquot get a chance to wear but were there lsquojust in casersquo. I wont bring those extra shirts or bottoms because I k http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-325054.html Cebu City August 23rd September 7th 2008Street Life.....There is just something so comforting and homely about watching the world go by in Cebu. It always brings it back to me how much I miss this place when I see the daily life unfolding around me. In saying that there are some sights that I had never seen before. Sights that are just so typical of a third world country. Sights that you http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-323376.html I arrived in Cebu yesterday and spent the rest of the day with my family. It was good to be back after years of being away and gave me the chance to see how much the city had changed in the time that I had been gone.The following day we took a road trip today to the town of Carcar approximately 40kms south of Cebu City or roughly a 1 hour trip on along Cebu's one and only freeway which is for http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-316074.html Wonderful Mactan Island after one year away from my first trip is a come back for me. This time i stay for 3 days 2 nights. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Mactan-Island/blog-312980.html Ola no iz Banaue sva sla z nocnim avtobusom kjer sva skor zmrzenla do jezera Tall.Ta jezero ima otok z jezerom z otokom.Do tja sva sla najprej s colnom pol pa z konjemse dans naju rit boli.Iz jezera Tall sva sla z avtobusom na katerem je bila najina soseda kuraposebna kuramatera od najbolsega petelina v petelinjem ringu ki je menda zelo pogost sport tukaj okrog Manillenazaj v Manillo na letali http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Bantayan/blog-309660.html Und wieder einmal lasse ich Bangkok hinter mir und nehme ein Taxi zum Flughafen. 45 km von the Artists Place rast mein Taxifahrer wie ein irrer ueber den Expressway. Sowas habe ich selbst in Bangkok noch nicht erlebt. Links und rechts wird mir 130 ueberholt. 35 Minuten und sechs Euro spaeter sind wir am Flughafen. Ich fliege mit Cebu Pacific Air nach Cebu die zweitgroesste Stadt der Philippinen http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-305351.html I like to venture into wet markets to photograph all the exotic foods I see. I live in in Cebu City Philippines but I never get tired of going to the market and seeing what new foods I can find. Just when I think I have seen everything I find new images to take. I love to see food in its raw form and everything is so fresh. The fruits vegetable meats and seafood. I also enjoy walking around http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-295714.html Hi everyoneSorry I haven't written in a while it's been hectic After the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute we spent a few more days in Davao. We went to the beach and were able to visit with an environmental NGO Interface Development Interventions Inc. IDIS and Bantay Bata 163. The environmental NGO is mainly concerned with the spraying of pesticides on the local fruits and produce and th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Bantayan/blog-285293.html After 2 nights at Alona beach on Pangloa Island where we enjoyed the fresh seafood restaurants along the beach front the bars a massage from an old lady that was quite clearly senile and the company of a transsexual called Fiona see pic on previous blog we headed back to Cebu city for a couple of nights. Cebu and the Pacific Pensionne guest house has very much become our base here in the Vis http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-285287.html Our second time in Manila was a hot and sweaty affair and we left as soon as we could buy bus tickets onwards. Our next destination was Donsol a small town in Southern Luzon and we made it there following a 12hr bus journey and a 2hr mini van ride. Donsol is an absolutely tiny village on the coast with very little to do but we got lucky because the 'Butanding' festival was in full swing on our ar http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-282529.html Date visited 9th May 24th The initial journeyAfter a brief 24 hours for the last time in Kota Kinabalu Borneo and one last night at the amusing hostel of Vincent's we once again got checked in on a flight this time to Cebu. Cebu is one of the larger islands of the Versayas a collection of lots of islands in the central Philippines and is a common visiting haunt for divers and intrepid tr http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-279853.html It does not take long at all to get used to the gentle pace of life at Peter's Dive Resort and to forget the cares and woes of home. Which makes it all the more difficult to accept we have to leave. It's been a great privilege to dive Sogod Bay's stunning reefs gliding past its precipitous walls alive with the most extraordinary biodiversity we've ever seen.The timing of our return to Hong Kong http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-274863.html Ok so where I left off I was still in Boracay. I'm actually long past that and relaxing in Cebu City now but I don't mind reaching back into my memory and revisiting Boracay and later Moalboal.On the first day in Boracay like I said I had gone and checked out one of the kiteboarding schools. The one I chose was www.freestyleboracay.com. They were cool after explaining my winter spent kiting http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Moalboal/blog-269092.html After leaving Boracay Island I decided that I would visit Cebu next and hopefully hop in to a ferry and go to Bohol to see its famous Chocolate Hills. Going to Cebu from Boracay took a lot of courage and patience. It was a long and tiring journey. At Caticlan port where a motorized boat from Boracay dropped me off together with the otherBoracay tourists I was advised by a bus driver of an Il http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-268605.html With family in Cebu and Bohol..I just love Cebu that I convinced my family to go with me for a vacation.They enjoyed it tooWe went around Cebu and Bohol...It was my first time in Plantation Bay actually... a little expensive but worth itFood in Larsian are the bestAnd Bohol... just make sure you buy your ticket a day before your planned trip.... it's a small island and you can explore it in a d http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-268195.html Ja da var dagene i Filippinene talte...allerede Tiden gaar saa fort I hvertfall naar man bruker 80 av tiden til aa komme seg fra a til b hadde vaert ok hvis man faktisk var PAA VEI men naar man sitter mest stille og venter paa at bussen skal bli full foerman kjoerer...kremt....Siden sist har jeg vaert i en by kalt Tagbilaran paa oeyen Bohol. Dette er hjemmet til de beroemte chockolate Hil http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-267954.html i cant really remember what i have done over the last few days but in the philippines now. crazy place and its takes about 100 years to get anywhere here. loads of boats going to places only go once a week so if u want to go somewhere nice you have to wait till next thursday and if you try to get there via detour as we are doing it takes untill next thursday anyway. so i think three weeks is a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-265955.html The Island of Cebu Philippines. Cebu is a very significant Island in the country this is an important landmark historically speaking because the portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu putting a marked that the world is round and paved the way for Spain to colonized the largest country that Spain attempted to subdued using religion as its power to unite different ethnic groups. In http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-263205.html Fun fun fun Nice FoodGreat PeopleAnother opportunity to practice my thingy with photography hehehe...til the next adventure... http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Moalboal/blog-261107.html As hoped in our last blog we've just arrived at the internet cafe directly from the beach. Unfortunately Hannes experienced some problems with his snorkelling mask but we both felt better after a few shakes coconut bananarhum and mango. Not a bad day on the whole.The ferry trip from Manila to Cebu was comfortable but not that exciting. We did however finally hear some of the infamous karaoke http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Bantayan/Sta-Fe/blog-249193.html Hello PeepsHope you are all well..I have been lazy and hence there is no blog of the past month or so since Bangkok. But there are photosThailand Kho Tao Kho Phangyang Islands Click Here Malaysia GeorgetownClick Here Malaysia Pangkor IslandClick this Malaysia Kuala Lumpur KL is here Then I went to Singapore Then I flew to Indonesia top destination will return here Jakarta Bali Ph http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-248610.html From Boracay I took the outrigger back to Panay island and rode South to Iloilo city. The road is well paved and hugs the coastline for the first 50km before turning inland. Midway along the route sugar cane fields appeared. The trucks they used to haul the sugarcane from the field are the old 60rsquos and 70rsquos truck. Heavy and overloaded with sugarcane they damaged the road and creat http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-248570.html Dreams of sun sea and San Miguel filled my head as our plane approached Cebu airport. Alas the closer we got to landing the more apparent it became that the sun part was likely to be lacking at least on our first day. It wasn't actually raining but the sky was a menacing shade of grey. We had come to the Philippines as everybody had told us that this was an excellent time of year to visit s http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-247399.html I arrived in Cebu at 4am. Having only booked the hotel for that night I wasn't really sure what I was going to do once I got there. I was hoping that they'd let me checkin early at say midday but wasn't sure what I'd do until then. I thought about hanging around the airport but it was pretty small and no one about so I jumped in a cab and went straight to the hotel. To my relief the reception http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-244187.html