Apo Island is a 30- to 45-minute boat ride from mainland Negros. It’s tiny, just about 12 hectares in area. Everyday there’s about three hours of electricity, from 6 to 9 in the evening. Rainwater is collected for everyday use, so sometimes, in the summer months, the homestays would have no water for you to… Continue reading Diving in Apo Island
Part One of my day tour of Siquijor can be found here. My next pit stop after Cantabon Cave was a viewdeck on Mt. Bandilaan, where I had an expansive view of Siquijor. Afterwards, we went south to the town of Lazi, where we first went to Cambugahay Falls. It has three tiers and light-blue… Continue reading A long day tour of Siquijor (part two), and more musings on solo travel
Traveling alone, albeit only for five days, meant that I had people asking me—why? Why alone, especially as a single woman? My mother asked me if I was going through a crisis. (This, coming from an OFW in the Middle East.) My boyfriend wanted to tag along, to which I vehemently said no, I wanted… Continue reading A long day tour of Siquijor (part one), Cantabon Cave, and on traveling solo
This blog entry should have been written last June if not for the takeover of my teacher life…and perhaps, even though the narrative was already running in my head as I was experiencing it, I still needed to digest what the whole experience meant. Or maybe I just got really lazy. 🙂 In any case,… Continue reading Traveling solo in Dumaguete: a late blog post
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