After the island hopping fiasco, we continued our day with the land tour. We spent approx PHP 2,500 for everything. It was a little after lunch when our driver, Ruel, picked us up from our hotel. He then drove us to Carmen for us to take our lunch on a raft while circling Loboc River.
I finally found time to catch up on my blogging. I have a lot of adventures to share but I think this is the first thing I need to write about. Right now, because of COVID-19, we are currently on enhanced community quarantine and Luzon is under lockdown. Before the announcement of the lockdown, I managed to take a short trip to Bohol. The original 5-day trip turned into a 3 days, 2 nights trip. We arrived in Panglao late afternoon on a Thursday. The same night, our president announced that Luzon will have a lockdown and all domestic flights will be suspended until further notice. Hearing this, we quickly rebooked our flights and planned out the rest of the trip. The lockdown begins after 72 hours. We could have booked the earliest flight back but we decided that since we were already there, we might as well make the most out of our trip. We turned our two day itinerary into a day. Let me tell you about our island hopping trip first.
The reason why we went chose Cagayan De Oro as our travel destination becomes apparent in this post: we went for the white water rafting experience! We did the beginner’s course which consisted of 14 rapids.
For this trip, we got the CDO-Dahilayan Bukidnon-Camiguin Island Tour package from Buhangin Travel and Tours. We paid around PHP 5,000 per pax for 6 people. Inclusive of the following:
I’ll tell you about our Camiguin experience first.
Despite being famous for its Chicken Inasal and yearly Masskara Festival, Bacolod was one of the places that I haven’t thought of going to, until this year.
Day 4 was our last whole day in Siargao. Of course, we knew we had to maximize our stay. We had our whole day planned out with the help of Gladys from @gosiargaotours. Our morning was dedicated for Corregidor Island. During the afternoon, we had Magpupungko, Alegria Beach and sunset watching at Santa Monica Pier planned out. At night, it was party time!
For our third day, we joined a tour that went to a total of 4 places: Sohoton Cove, Naked Island, Guyam Island and Daku Island.
My friends and I booked a 5-day trip to Siargao. I initially thought that 5 days on the island was too long. It was when I got there that I realized, 5 days is not enough. My next blog posts will be dedicated on how I fell in love with the island.
The next tour was the Coron Island Tour. This is a more adventurous tour and the places are all near Busuanga Island therefore there wasn’t much travel time via boat.
Here are the destinations: Kayangan Lake, Twin Lagoon, Balinsasayaw Reef, Beach 91, Malwawey Reef, Skeleton Wreck and CYC Beach.
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