Saturday, September 26, 2015 @ 5:36 PM
Greetings and salutations! I have just came back from my first ever overseas backpacking adventure...to CEBU, PHILIPPINES! Can I say it's one of my BEST EXPERIENCE yet!!! It's so so sooo different than going on overseas tour trips with my family, because they prefer a bit more luxurious type of travelling, as compared to walking countless kilometers under the hot blazing sun or under the rain (wearing cute yellow ponchos that made us look like Big Bird, hahaha!), hunting down local food from street stalls/markets (lechon *salivates*), catching the local bus to the next city and staying at backpackers' hostel that won't bleed the money outta your pockets hahaha. We did all that in our 5D4N trip!

Technically, the 5D4N trip was reduced to 3D2N, because day 1 and day 5 was wasted on airplane travel :( Initially, the tickets I bought were direct flights from Kota Kinabalu to Cebu, but due to some reasons it was changed and we had to transit Manila first before arriving Cebu. Ahh, here's the super long details that I'll spare you. Let's just say on the first day, when we FINALLY arrived Cebu, we were dead tired and hungry and dirty and tired and hungry @__@ Can you imagine our luck...1 delayed flight from KK, and 3 delayed flight from Manila?! A person can only take in so much... @___@

Anyways, we won't let that ruin our trip, shall we? :)

So here's our rough itinerary for the whole trip, might come in handy if anyone is interested for their own Cebu Backpacking Adventure! :D

Day 1 - flight BKI-MNL, MNL-CEB

Day 2 -
  • Carcar City: Carcar public market, famous Rotunda, St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, local museum/monuments/heritage buildings
  • Sibonga: Simala Shrine Church
  • Dalaguete: Osmena Peak
  • Overnight: Moalboal (Moalboal Backpackers' Lodge, Panagsama Beach)
Day 3 -
  • Moalboal: snorkeling (Pescador Island, Turtle Bay Sanctuary and sardine shoals)
  • Bandian: Kawasan Falls, local cockfighting event
  • Cebu City: Cebu Larsian
  • Overnight: Cebu City (GV Tower Hotel)  
Day 4 -
  • Cebu City: Colon Street, Basilica del Santo Nino, Magellan's Cross, Fort San Pedro, Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, Carbon Market, SM City Cebu
  • flight back to MNL
Day 5 - flight MNL-BKI, HOME SWEET HOME!!

5D4N trip, planning took about...a few months' time but finalizing everything just two days before the trip hahaha. Anyways, we travelled on 14th SEPTEMBER 2015 until 18th SEPTEMBER 2015. Against all odds, the weather was perfectly fine in the day time. At night it would rain but we didn't mind much (we've got our Big Bird ponchos also bhaa XP). Maybe we really just got super duper lucky because I checked weather forecasts in Cebu it was predicted to have rain storms the whole day with the threat of typhoon (monsoon season over there currently)! O___O but than God non of that happened!! My mum would go ballistics if she ever finds out...

Overall, it was an AWESOME trip and yours sincerely is already thinking of the NEXT BIG ADVENTURE TO EMBARK ON!! HEHEHE. Mum wouldn't be quite happy I suppose (well you know how parents tend to worry sometimes, bless her heart), she already "warned" me to tell her first if I'm going outside the country while I'm back in campus now lololol. So that's all for this post!! I'll update more about the places we've visited in the the next post! :D


SEE YOU GUYS SOON!! ;D ;D ;D

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