I had an room booked in a different hostel from Neil which was a good thing.There was no way I was continue my travelling with him. So the tricycle dropped me at OMG backpacker at 10am and I ended up getting a very cheap single room that was ready soon. It was great to have a shower, to take my laundry (it was more than about time ! ) and to have a 1h30 nap before 2pm.I joined Neil for lunch at Divers' Dream and that was the last time I saw him !!! :) :) :) I was...

Our next destination was Malapascua. Malapascua is famous for its dives. There you can find Thresher sharks and mandarin fish ! 2 beautiful creatures that I had never seen. So I was very much looking forward to it. To get there it took: 1h on the ferry from Siquijor to Dumaguete 20 min tricycle from Dumaguete to the other ferry terminal 30 min on a smaller ferry boat (with plastic benches) from Tampi to Bato 1h waiting at the terminal for a decent bus (thank...

The trip to Siquijor took a few hours. The ferry is not the most comfortable but I'll find out later that it's definitly not the worst ! Siquijor is known for its faith healers and other witches. Filipinos don't like the place, they're scared of it. But I loved it ! My hostel was right on the beach and even though it was too shallow to swim, the view was amazing and having breakfast by the beach is brilliant ! On my first day I went dive shop hunting. I act...

You know that feeling when you watch a funny movie and you realise you have to go back to work the next morning, on monday. That knot in your stomach at the idea of it ? Well that's what I felt in the plane to the Philippines. I have never been to Asia before, only one short stop over in Hong Kong before Oz 9 years ago. And I wasn't by myself as I had met a group of french people. I didn't know what to expect in the Philippines.I had a vague idea of the poverty o...

I spent the past 4 days in Singapore. It's a very interesting place. It's obviously located in South East Asia but it also looks very European in many sort of way. It's very clean, has plenty of building of all sorts of influence and many different areas very different from one another. Little India and Chinatown don't need any definition but there's also the Marina with the impressive Marina Bay Sands hotel and it's probably over 4000 rooms. There's also a p...