It's lashing down. I feel everything I ever read telling me to come to the Philippines in January - February for the best weather should be burnt. That being said, we decided to carpe that diem and head toward Loboc and Bilar and we decided to do it on a scooter - just because we can.

The scooter cost 400PHP (£8) for the day so we saddled up and hit the road just as the grey skies above us began to start dribbling.

The drive was curiously long and my commando underwear choice quickly brought about an itchy and numb bum in the lashing rain. Nevertheless, we arrived at our destination without a wrong turning and parked up next to 'The Hanging Bridge' at one o'clock. It isn't as morbid as it sounds, no one has been hung from it, it's merely a suspended bridge, classically made using bamboo. It's forty metre long track was very slippery underfoot and the poor - albeit moronic - German in front of me had no chance in his traditional wooden clogs.

With the required photos taken and posed for, we shot off for the tarsier sanctuary. Tarsiers, although small, endangered and reticent are immensely interesting creatures! A tarsier is regarded as an ancient, nocturnal mammal that has inhabited the Earth for 45 million years; Scientists consider it the oldest mammal to still inhabit our world! Tarsiers are characterised by the huge eyes but their name is due to their hind legs where the tarsus bone is the longest in its body. Tarsiers are so agile that they can catch small birds in motion and they are the only primate to solely eat prey, living on insects, small birds, fish and lizards. Horribly, if stressed of threatened, tarsiers commit suicide! They do this by banging their soft skulls against hard objects, which is a truly terrible thing. They can become stressed from being handled so it was constantly repeated that in the sanctuary we were required to keep a good distance away from them. They are pretty adorable and have long bones fingers that hold it under leaves while it sleeps in the day.

With a long drive in the pounding rain home ahead of us we set off for home and went straight to bed. We have an early start tomorrow as we are going to Balicasag on a bangkur.