Bantayan Island We only stayed at Bohol for a day before getting the ferry to Bantayan Island, the north of Cebu. We got to the ferry port around 3pm after a 3 hour bus journey and another ferry before that, and a jeepney and a tricycle! The guy at the ticket office said that the boat had been cancelled because of a typhoon that was coming in, just great, so everyone was trying to sell us accommodation, but the locals weren't to bothered so I thought why should w...

Bohol is a quaint little island, just one of the 7000 islands Philippines has to offer, and it’s famous for its Chocolate Hills and Tarsier Sanctuary’s. We stayed at Nipa hut village, Bohol guesthouse in a bamboo hut on stilts and were away from the road, and that all you could here was the nature and the family that lived there, it was really nice to be away from Cebu city. We rented a bike and went around a place called Carmen and Loboc; there are lots of p...

22nd July - 24th July 2011 After several hours of waiting in airports and 2 flights I finally arrived in Cebu city, it's definitely not what I was expecting the Philippines to be like. Cebu City is such a polluted and dangerous little place. Since this was the first time I'd actually been travelling alone since the beginning it was all rather daunting, however I wasn't alone for long. On my second flight from Manila to Cebu I sat next to Doug from Lithuania, ...