Manila, Philippines, Asia I had a horrible night’s sleep last night on the bus. The seats are just not big enough to accomodate someone who is over six feet tall. And it didn’t help that the person in front of me had to put their seat back to fully lie down, which just made it that much tighter. I was pretty sore from the caving and the hiking from yesterday, so I couldn’t get comfortable at all. It just wasn’t…
Banaue, Philippines, Asia Today was one of the most exhausting days I can remember, ever. I woke up at 6:30am to meet the group up in the lobby for 7am. We were hoping to have more people wanting to go to Batad that we could share a jeepney with, but there was only one he/she that wanted to go, but only one way. We had some breakfast at the hotel restaurant, where I had a huge chocolate and banana pancake….
Banaue, Philippines, Asia Today started out with an early wake up at the George Guest House so I could catch the 8:30am jeepney to Bontoc, and then get a bus at 10am to Banaue. It didn’t quite work out that way. I got up to the bus stop at 8:10am but they jeepney was already full so I had to wait till 9am. No problem really, because I should still have been able to get there at 9:45am in time…
Sagada, Philippines, Asia Today was an awesome day! I woke up after a great night sleep at George Guest House and wasn’t sure that I really wanted to do anything today. I knew that I was going to be staying here for tonight, so I had the full day, but just kind of felt like relaxing. I bummed around until about 10am and then went for breakfast at Yoghurt House. I had an awesome breakfast with a scrambled egg, a…
Sagada, Philippines, Asia The one thing I want to see in the Philippines is the Banaue Rice Terraces. This is proving to be a very difficult place to get to. I have already flown into Clark (north of Manila) and taken a five hour bus journey further north to the city of Baguio. This morning I left Baguio (as soon as humanly possible) to get another bus up to Sagada. This was another six hour journey by bus, but because…
Baguio, Philippines, Asia Today was a long day of travelling. It started out with waking up with a very sore back from a horrible night’s sleep. My mattress still had a plastic wrapper on it, so my fitted sheet kept coming off and my legs were sticking to the plastic. There was no A/C in the room so it was roasting in there, and every time I moved, the plastic made tons of noise that I was certain was waking…