We caught our Zest Air flight from Manila to Puerto Princesca on the island of Palawan in the evening - I think we were all Manila'd out! As we came out of the airport it instantly felt peaceful. We all loaded onto a tricycle to the Banwa art house where we had booked a room. The air was so much more cleaner and when we arrived at Banwa they had a lovely seating area and restaurant which overlooked trees, we all had a bit of dinner and had an early night. The ne...

Our next destination was Manila and meeting up with Claire and Dee who were flying over from home for 2 weeks with us! We had to get a very choppy boat ride back from Malapascua to the mainland and then got another open window bus back to Cebu, then a zest air flight to Manila and then get the shuttle bus to terminal 1 to meet them. Now we thought it would be like meeting someone at Gatwick or Heathrow where you can leisurely have a drink and wait - but this is t...

Our next destination was Manila and meeting up with Claire and Dee who were flying over from home for 2 weeks with us! We had to get a very choppy boat ride back from Malapascua to the mainland and then got another open window bus back to Cebu, then a zest air flight to Manila and then get the shuttle bus to terminal 1 to meet them. Now we thought it would be like meeting someone at Gatwick or Heathrow where you can leisurely have a drink and wait - but this is t...

We had quite a big journey ahead of us and we knew it would take two days. We had to get from the west coast of Negros to Malapascua which is a small island north of Cebu. We had arranged for someone to take us on the boat at 6am to leave Sugar Beach. The french guy was leaving at the same time too. As we went down to the boat we found out we couldn't leave because the tide was too low - french guy said he knew a different way to get to Sipilay so we followed hi...

It only took about 45 minutes on the ferry to get to Dumaguete, the biggest city in the south of the island of Negros. It was back to manic traffic, tricycle drivers and noise, Siquijor seemed a million miles away. With Carmen we managed to find a cheap pension house for the night. Our tricycle driver said that there was a bus to Sipilay the next morning at 6am which we were pleased about as it was going to take quite a few a hours to get there. We dumped our b...