Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Great Visayan Road Trip: 2nd day

Day 2:
We woke up early so we can start our sightseeing at 6am but the driver fetched us at 630 am. We went to the nearby beach while waiting to catch remnance of sunrise.

Our first stop was the old balete tree. After 3 shots, we went to Lazi. We took several shots in Lazi church and convention. We passed by a bakery where we could eat some quick breakfast.

Then we reached Cantambuhay Falls after 126 steps. We had some photo ops, went to the highest level of waterfalls (there were 3 levels), and had more photo ops. Some locals came and jumped from the falls. Ingitero kami so that's why we also jumped. We also did the Tarzan jump, but the landing was shallow so I had abrasions in my knees. Nevertheless, it was still fun hehe

Next stop was Salagdoong Beach where we could slide and cliff jump. It was nearing 1030am and kat had to go early to catch the noon ferry back to Dumaguete because she had an entrance exam the next day. Fortunately, she was able to peek at the cliff. We had some photo ops, and had lunch. The slide was dry so we didn't slide. The cliff was really high and I feel dizzy when I look down. Fortunately, seeing the picture of Ralph jumping gave me courage to jump too hehe (ingitera talaga ako hehe).

After jumping, we told our driver to take us back to the resort where we can take a bath and just catch the next ferry back to Dumaguete. It just so happened that we were just slow so we rode the 530pm ferry, which was the latest schedule at the time.

We thought we wouldn't make it because the fery suddenly changed ports because of the wind but, actually the roro was very late and we left siquijor at around 7pm.

When we arrived in the port, we walked towards Scooby's thinking to have dinner there. We passed by Siliman University, showed them the Boulevard and had 'tempura' there. We wanted to show them Watever Ktv and reserved a slot for later. We saw that Barbecue Jones was open and cheap, so we had dinner there instead. At 12mn, there was a room available for Ktv where we went inside.

Some were really sleepy, so I laid my sleeping bag for them haha some were working and charging phones, because there was also free wifi. While the rest like moi, were singing our hearts out hehe

These came on for 3 hours. Much cheaper than staying in a motel! Haha less than 500 for 11 people to do their own business hehe at 3 am, we went to the Ceres bus terminal to go to Oslob. To be continued...

Expenses:
Siquijor Multicab 2000/12 pax
Island Rendevoo 2400/12 pax
Bread breakfast 100/12 pax
Driver's lunch 140+parking fee at cantambuhay falls 50+20 parking at salagdoong
Entrance at Salagdoong 15/pax
Lunch in Salagdoong est less than 100 (food usually by 2 to 3 ppl)
Ferry to Dumaguete 180/pax ?
Terminal fee 20/pax ?
Dinner in barbecue jones less than 100
Watever KTV 480/11 ppl

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Great Visayan Road Trip: 1st day

Arrived in Cebu. Traveled to Dumaguete. Catch a ferry to Siquijor. Back to Dumaguete as a transit. Swim with the whale sharks in Oslob, Cebu. Back to Cebu City for the Sinulog festival. Rode a ferry to Ormoc, Leyte. City day tour in Tacloban with Jom. Hiked with Fernz for 7 hrs to a waterfall. Joined a local birthday celebration in Catbalogan, Samar. Bus to Legazpi. Back to Manila. The gist of my first roadtrip for the year 2013.

7 days. 6 provinces. 5 islands. 4 days with my sisters and climb friends. Another 3 days of roadtrip with my best friend. 10 kg of clothes and baggage.

Day 1:
Matel, Macy, Kat, Ralph and I went to Cebu, taking the first flight via cebupac and arriving at 5:30 am. We were greeted by our second cousin and we went to their house for a while. We were to rent their van to take us to Oslob but because of a long story, we just borrowed 2 of their cars to take us to Liloan port in Santander, Cebu.

We visited Mary's Castle on the way to the port where we had some photo ops. I didn't think our second-cousin Cory expected that we would take so long hehe


Anyway, we arrived in Liloan at around 130pm. We took the ferry for 30 min, it was a very very bumpy ride, causing most of the passengers to be seasick. I was a bit seasick myself so I went to the upper deck for some air.

When we got to dumaguete, we filled up a multicab to take us to Hous of Sansrival where we await the schedule of the ferry to Siquijor.

We had a good lunch with good desserts, that most of us wanted to walk for a while and digest our food. As macy mentioned, we've been traveling the whole day! We just took the 7pm ferry to siquijor and arrived at 9pm.

In siquijor, we rented a multicab to take us to the resort at Php 500, which I believe to be expensive.

Anyway, that ends our first day :)

Expenses:
Breakfast at Mcdo
Gas going to the port - est 1300/12 ppl
Ferry to Dumaguete - 60 per pax
Multicab to Hous of Sansrival - 25 per pax
Late lunch at Haus of Sansrival
Fast Ferry to Siquijor - 200 per pax
Multicab to Island Rendevoo - 500/12 ppl
Takeout food from Scooby's Dumaguete

Pictures to follow