Philippine Travel Notes

My Negros Oriental Tour: Bus Ride from Cebu City to Bayawan City Cebu to Dumaguete Reaching the south bus terminal at 6:35AM, I was late for the direct Cebu-Dumaguete-Bayawan buses as they now leave 5AM and 6AM respectively instead of 6AM and 7AM. So, I took an aircon bus on its way to Dumaguete. But I got off at Liloan’s Puerto Del Sur passenger terminal (in Santander) so I could cross via fastcraft to Sibulan and make my way by multicab or trike to the Ceres terminal in Dumaguete. You might ask why did I not just take the bus all the way to Dumaguete’s Ceres Terminal and connect to another bus from there going Bayawan. Well, ah, from experience and some asking around, it is faster if you cross on your own via the fastcrafts to Sibulan from Liloan than keep riding the Ceres all the way to Bato that crosses to the Tampi port in Amlan before proceeding with the ride to Dumaguete passing by Sibulan. If you did not quite get that, just try ‘google maps’ or ‘wikimapia’ to look for those pl...

Excited to tell you all about this tour! One of the most memorable for me. Though I may not have seen everything in each town… though some might say I spread myself too thin on this tour… I still claim I saw and learned a lot to share with you! I toured through all the towns and cities of the entire Negros Oriental (and some parts of Negros Occidental) in 10 days! So many things to tell about this trip, and my fingers cannot be as fast as my lowly brain can run recalling everything I saw and encountered! So here I go… Why Negros Oriental (NegOr)? Ah, why not?!!! I have roamed all the towns and cities of Cebu and Siquijor, so Negros Oriental was naturally next in my list! What for?! Well, my answer to that question would be questions too like “what is cigarette for?” or “what is make up for” or “what is watching a movie for”? Ah hehehe! That’s it! Intiendes?! The plan Simple really… set out from Cebu City… go southwards all the way to Bayawan and/or Basay in Negros Oriental… start roami...

There are just so many types of massage available everywhere, right? Rightfully so, because it is the “in” thing in this country nowadays. Massage though has long been a “mainstay” at our airports long before it became a fad. But, even them, at the airport I mean, have progressed into offering different kinds of massage. Take this photo I took at the Centennial Terminal for an example… The “Scalp Massage” and the “Foot & Leg Massage” were easy for me to fathom. Of course I know, the masseuse would massage that part of your body as mentioned, right? Alright. That “Whole Body Massage” made me smile. Naughtily, in fact! Why? Because I know it has “evolved” into something on the kinkier side. Some (if not many) “massage parlors” especially in Metro Manila offer ‘sensual’ Whole Body Massage. How? The masseuse or masseur gives your body that 'ever needed' massage using his/her body, no less! You know that, right? Asuuuuus, aminiiiiin! Imagine yourselves (you and the masseuse, I m...