I have reached Baguio City, nestled 5000 ft above sea level atop the Grand Cordillera Mountain Range, the highest city in the Philippines. On average it is 10 degrees Celsius cooler here than the lowland temperature. I reached this place like this: bus, ferrry, bus from Sablayan to Manila for 12 hours and then 7 hours by bus from Manila. A very scenic route here, across mountains and jungle and nice views down the steep roads. I checked in to a decent hotel (Belf...

4:30 wake-up in fan cooled room at Adventure Camp, same tricycle driver is picking us (Carl and myself) and Morris and Nadja up to take us to the harbour and board our boat. The crew is waiting, captain, two deckmen and divemaster Toto. It is a wooden traditional boat, large enough for everybody, the gear, luggage and groceries to fit. The ride there across a lightblue sea is on itself an experience, beautiful view over the ocean and the main land, a rainbow flyi...

Turns out that travel over land and sea takes a lot of patience, luck and time. No wonder there are so many budget airlines here. Obviously it is hard to cover all 7000 islands and to have a decent infra-structure here. The trip from Boracay to Sablayan proves this as well. Teamed up with Carl to get to Mindoro island, to the town of Sablayan where the scuba diving is supposed to be really good, for example at Apo Reef. Manta Rays, turtles, hammerhead- and other...

Been for 6 days now, the place is beautiful but it is time to move on. The trip continues towards the southwest, to some of the finest dive locations around. The exact plans will be made tonight, together with Carl, an English friend I met here. The days on this island have consisted mainly of the beach, the pool, seafood, suntan and sunburn, mango shakes, some nightlife, my hammock on my porch and overall a lot of relaxing. For filippines ways this is an expe...

New destination, new world.. Airport bus to HK airport, checked my backpack in and got an emergency exit chair. Which is nice coz if you think the normal legspace on KLM planes is kinda tight, try Cebu Pacific. Well it's a budget airline but still.. Two hour flight to Manila, where I had a good 5 hour stopover. Walked around, had some lunch and after 4 1/2 hours I decided to have a quick look outside. Walked out the terminal, took a couple of pictures and when I...