Since I last updated my blog I traveled to a place called Borongan on the East Coast of Samar, Philippines for a little R&R after all of my recent adventures. Borongan is pretty much as far East as you can go in the Philippines and it looks straight onto the open Pacific, the next stop [...]
Since my last update I took a flight from what seemed like the worlds smallest airport on Busuanga Island to Manila and then another flight to Legaspi City in South Luzon, Philippines. I made my way to a small town called Donsol which is famous because it is a well know location for spotting Whale Sharks from November [...]
I arrived last night in a town called Coron on Busuanga Island north of Palawan, Philippines after a 4 day sail around the picturesque islands, and it was one of the most incredible 4 days of my life.
On the boat was the skipper called Jim from Canada, another Jim also from Canada and a Czech [...]
I arrived on Palawan Island after a 9 hour bus trip, a 4 hour sleep in a bus station with my bag padlocked to me and a 2 hour flight. I had to stay for one night in the capital, Puerto Princesa and then I took a 7 hour minivan to reach paradise (a.k.a El [...]
Having conquered the Batad rice terraces Oliver and I decided that we would try and make our way to the Julia Campbell Agroforest Memorial Park which is a 48-hectare organic coffee plantation.
The reason this plantation is so famous is because the coffee is derived from the excrement of the coffee-bean-eating Civet (a cat/fox like creature [...]
Today Oliver (the Brit from my hostel) and I set out at 7am on a 6 hour trek to the Batad. This was the hardest trek (or bit of exercise for that matter) that I have ever done. We had to hike up extremely steep paths and steps that were really just tiny dirt trails [...]
I arrived in Manila and had a massive culture shock. The area I was staying in reminded me of a slightly watered down version of India. Every person was trying to scrape together a living using what ever method they could. I don’t have any photos mainly because I was a bit affraid to take [...]