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    South Luzon & the Visayas

    Although i spent about 2 months up north, i have spent a far deal longer exploring down south, but i havent got the pictures to prove it. Also love to visit some of the tribes of Mindanno, but its just considered to dangerous. i like to keep my head attached to my body, thats all thats worries me. being shot at doesnt.
    so anyway, i thought about taking the train down, but i took the bus instead.

    Cagsawa church

    ^i hear now that this church is complety covered over. i'll have to check it out sometime.
    Got down to Matnog to catch the ferry over to Samar, but my guidebook didnt give me anything good to write about. i should make my mind up another time.

    ^Matnog beach.


    i was the star attraction for the evening. i guess they dont get many visitors this way. some even invited me to eat with them! can you expect the same treatement in England?


    Malapascua island and tip of Cebu






    local cockfighting

    ^happened so fast, and all was over.

    this was killing my foot


    Main beach landing





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    Thanks, nice photos, looks like a great place to explore

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    You have certainly been around WM. Great shots indeed.

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    Some great pics. That last shot in particular looks farkin idyllic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoGeAr View Post
    Some great pics. That last shot in particular looks farkin idyllic.
    cheers guys.
    some more photos from Malapascua Island. here i went snorkeling






    messes with your eyes doesn't it?

    brain coral




    i then went island hopping..... as you do.



    jackfruit i think. thank god this didnt drop on Newton's head, or he'd be dead


    fit as....




    don't trust the hot showers, they may shock you like this one did. look in the ceiling, canny you believe it?


    tricyles, and 4 people plus food shopping sits in the back. for a westerner, its like being a sardine. nightmare if you have long legs


    went to Bohol to see the chocolate hills


    loved the bridge, locals didnt, lol




    then met a man at the end of the bridge that likes to do something great with a coconut. click to play.


    if i'm not allowed video's here, please feel free to delete

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    Excellent adventure travel shots Wujou!

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    went to Silay, Negros to see the sugar cane which is grown is this part of the phils. The sugar cane was brought over here by the french [i think], but that doesnt make the locals think any differant for the foreigners, who even asked me whether i was korean!!
    sugar cane on lorries, as far as the eye can see



    Err, yea right........





    saw some beautiful churches while i was in the phils, not religious mind

    made from coral, now you know where all the coral's gone

    very gothic looking, one of my fav's

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    Cracking collection of photos there mate, the thread opener is the best that I have seen in a long while.

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    forgot where this was. think it was near [?] de oro

    my Ex- girlfriends place in Mindanno. totel culture shock as it was only 1 week before i had left England

    ^not used to having pigs slaughted at 2AM outside my bedroom window
    Negros, Dumaguete. some local dance festival


    Colourful fish


    Sinulog 2007, Cebu


    Santo Nino [Child Jesus]


    selling crap








    girls more intrested being on film than watching the festival















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    WujouMao,

    Great pics.

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    Can't give you any rep anymore, but always nice to read your travel reports.

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    Thanks for the pics mate, awesome post, I was in Suragao del norte , Bohol Cebu and Leyte 10 years ago and it doesn't seem as long, time flies in. Your pics bring back some memories for me.

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    Great pics, inspirational stuff. Looks like a place I gotta visit.

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    wow,
    great pics
    i wanna go!!

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    good picture , can you post more

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    Looks like a great place to visit! I'm thinking of heading there at some point. Can you recommend some of the best places that you visited? Did you get to go scuba diving?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phuketbound View Post
    Looks like a great place to visit! I'm thinking of heading there at some point. Can you recommend some of the best places that you visited? Did you get to go scuba diving?
    sorry mate, i swim like a brick. as for recommentions, for a 1st timer leaving Manila or Cebu with cheap piss and its girlie dancing bars it will be pretty tough, but if you want beaches, there's Malapascua island off the tip of Cebu. there's Boracay which is very very popular with tourists [never went there, but maybe your thang]. you could try Palawan for utter beauty

    with over 2000 islands, there's a shyte lot to see

    opps... forgot to say, may sure you plan a trip with a popular festival in a particular area. say for instance, whether you are a church goer or not, going to see the Filipino's celebrate Easter would be a highligh of any trip. i have never been myself, but i have heard of people who have and its not for the sqeamish

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    Great Pics
    Thanks for sharing.

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    i spent about 50 days in the philippines from july to August this year. i started from Davao, and moved up to Lake Sebu which is in S.Cotabato. had a walk around the countryside and even helped the locals carry the 'grass'






    Lake Sebu is a large lake with about dozen islands and tons of fish farms. too be honest i got rather bored of eating the same brand of fish everyday. thankfully the place i stayed in gave me food poisoning which was enough to make me leave and never come back










    Lake Sebu and the surrounding area has lots of T'boli tribe people. some of them work in some of the restaurants around the lake






    had a walk around the lake, walked along a track, past a Muslim village and got stopped by some paranoid unpleasant characters who asked me where i was going and told me to turn back. thankfully i found some pleasant people in the next village down. they even gave me some coconut rice wine. evil stuff. avoid like the plague






    a few days later i went to Marbel for the T'nalak festival. but 1st, i thought i should take a gander at a bikini contest


    in the Morning, it was festival time. another street parade like the Singulog with is held in Cebu









    ^ v
    some of the girls were minging. plastered to much crap on their face makee then look rough as hell. i prefer natural look anyday










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    Great pictures mate, thanks for sharing.

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    after that i chipped to Bohol to see the small critters again in their natural habitat and not the illegal ones i saw before




    and saw the Buku King again cos the girl i was with never seen him before. shame about the poxy pink girl's hat he wore


    went to Palo in Leyte to see McArther landing site.


    and then went to the Market in Tacloban to cause a stir with the people selling seafood.














    no thanks mate. not buying. but i'd take your picture instead


    seeweed? tasty i guess...not!!


    this was a tuna. and i always thought a tuna was small, like a foot long


    some shy girls took a second chance to get their photo taken...with a man holding a fish






    caught a bus from Tacloban to Calbayog in Samar. took a few snaps of a weird motocycle with a customised wooden roof. seen them many times, but hard to take a picture from a moving bus when the roads are bumpy as shit, and this was the closest i got


    ...and the odd accident


    and some nice simple houses along the way. i must say, if anyone is in the area, there are some great photo's to be had from Calbayog to somewhere near san Isidro


    caught a ferry from samar to Matnog, South Luzon and witnessed another festival






    then i went to Naga to find a 'skate' track for my last bit of sightseeing in Philippines before home.

    just like the Cambodian bamboo train, the Philippines has their own version called Skates. i went from Naga to Pili for a cheap price, rather than the inflated price for a 20 min ride.


    somewhat smaller than the Cambodian version, but at least these have handles


    or if you're strong enough, you can carry your own


    then as i was waiting for the rain to stop, i saw a square pool table, that rotates instead of walking around the table

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    a very enjoyable thread,any more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ferretface View Post
    a very enjoyable thread,any more.
    weather was shit in july/august time. so no blue sky's. so basically, no mate.

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    again i enjoyd a lot always look your treads always god pics and the storie to come whith it

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    Quote Originally Posted by ferretface View Post
    a very enjoyable thread,any more.

    too be honest, i have 100's of pictures. i only chose the best ones. i wouldn't wanna bore you with other ones. for instance, for the 2007 Sinulog festival in 2007, i have over 600 photos of that, and thats for 1 day.

    if you really want to see more, i'd pop them up. let me know

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