After the eventful night we wanted to get out the city. I'm sure there were things to do there, but we wanted the beach and sea. We asked the receptionist if she could book us on a bus to moalboal. In Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam this was normally the procedure to going to the next place. That or a trip the travel agents or the coach companies office. It's different here in the Philippines as it's around 20 years behind these countires and not really built up perfectly for tourists yet. We got a taxi to the bus station and from there hopped on a public bus heading for Moalboal. We had no idea of the costs, where to get off or anything. Just that this bus would be passing through our desired town at some point. There were people selling all sorts of weird and wonderful things on there, jumping on, shouting what they had to sell and then jumping off on the next stop. There were people with chickens caged up. Some bloke got on and we swear he must have been moving house! The ticket officer came round and asked us where we were going, he then hole punched the numbers for the price we had to pay. 107 pesos was the cost. A whopping £1.67. 3 and a half hour ride down the coast with stunning views of the sea and mountains. We also saw how the locals live. A lot of houses built out of scrap metal on the side of the road. It's well and truly a third world country.
We arrived in moalboal and then got a tricycle to Panagsama beach were we chose to stay. After walking around we realised it was a pretty popular place as most places were full or were asking 60 pound a night. We found a decent little place just back from the beach that had access to the best hotels pool. We had our own little cottage and set up camp. itsself isn't built up at all. It's famous for its diving and that's about it. Although it's very relaxed, no cars or anything just a tiny walkway through shops and restaurants. It was very relaxed and we saw some of the most incredible skies as we sat on the wall with a beer looking out to sea.
The second day we hired a moped. We wanted to visit Kasawan falls after someone we met in Cambodia posted a brilliant photo. It was around 20km from moalboal. Now, this is a bit bad but Jake wasn't wearing a helmet because the one he was given was way to big. The guy we hired the moped off said that we didn't need hamlets because we were English we would get away with it. On the way to the falls there was a road block. Police were pulling everyone in. Fantastic. They pulled over the two bikes infront of us so we were getting ready to get our money out for the fine. He just waved us through saying drive safe sir, have a good day mam. That was that!
We reached the entrance to the falls. We were met by many locals trying to sell us canyoning. After what happened in Vietnam last week we wernt going to do it. Because our experience in Vietnam was so good we didn't want to ruin what we thought of canyoning either. After we said no to the adventure they then wanted to be our tour guide. No thank you we said, we just want to look at the falls and that's it. A man then followed us up to the falls pointing which way to go. Even though it was bloody obvious as it was one track for 1.5km. We've read that people will do that and then claim you owe them money. Jake turned around to him and said " we know where we're going. We don't want to know anything about the falls, we don't want to know where the jumping points are and we don't want to do canyoning." Basically told him politely to piss off!
We reached the falls and it was incredible. The water was turquoise, and the waterfall was big! It was touristy, but not in the water. Locals would just bring a picnic and sit on the side. So apart from some rafts we had to it to ourselves. After a swim we went up to the top of the waterfall for a good picture! We got it and then continued up to see the second, smaller but still impressive, waterfall.
Then it was back home to moalboal centre for a big maccies. Did we mention that they love their fast food here?! A few beers, a big steak and a live band followed in the evening. Then back to get some sleep before the long days travel to Bohol