Santa-Fe - Bantayan Island - The Philippines May 12th - 14th, 2016 After much deliberating and indecisiveness caused by lack of access to current information ie. No websites and unhelpful tourist desks, we eventually decided to go to the island of Bantayan for a couple of nights to relax and regroup before the next part of our adventure. Once our minds were made up it was a simple process to get to the Northern Bus Terminal and buy tickets to Hagnaya, the litt...

Chocolate Hills - Bohol - The Philippines May 10th - 11th, 2016 After our night on the bus we had another full day of travel ahead of us, from the bus station we got a taxi to the airport where we caught a flight down to the Island of Cebu in The Visayas. From here we caught the airport bus to one of Cebu's many Malls where we were able to finally enquire at the travellers lounge about ferry's to other islands....it's impossible to find out any current or usef...

Banaue - Ifugao Province - The Philippines May 8th - 9th, 2016 Our night bus to Banaue halts for its second rest stop at 5.30am, just as the sun is rising and we are able to enjoy the rest of the ride in daylight through ever narrower, winding, bumpy roads that have stunning views out across the countryside of Ifugao Province - Rica Terrace country! This is the reason we have come..to see the UNESCO 'Stairway to Heaven' rice terraces hewn some 2000 years ago b...

Manila - The Philippines May 5th - 7th, 2016 Manila, the dirty, smelly, sweaty capitol city of the Philippines and home to about 2 million people across this sprawling city. Not our favourite place so far! Upon arrival at the airport you could tell this place was much more geared up for tourists than anywhere in Borneo had been, for a start all the ATM's charge you for having a foreign card! Our time in the city was plagued with people touting for business, ...