Philippine Travel Notes

Done roaming the northern parts of Negros Island, even if quickly. I was returning all the way back to Silay, in time for my flight out early the following day. But I needed to do 2 more quick stops at Cadiz and Manapla. So, this was a longer, but still fun bus ride from Calatrava to Cadiz on a non-aircon bus. The ticket said this trip was from KM131 to KM64, therefore 67 kilometers. Was that really long? Well, not really. But for this roam the past two day, I kept hopping from place to place, in succession from west-to-east so those were all very short bus rides, that made Calatrava -to-Cadiz as the longest!. Anyway, there was really nothing much more to be alert-of, since I already passed this way. Yet, I still looked out for lovely (and ugly) things along the way, as this time, I was on the other side of the road! Such as, I saw this on the side of the highway, in an otherwise desolate hinterland little barrio... Yeah, if you're a Filipino, you will immediately recogni

After Sagay, I still had time to move northeast of the island, and the next locale is Escalante City.., This was a very short ride. And oh how lovely, I caught an air-conditioned bus again for a 29-peso ride! The deal with my royal self was: wherever nightfall catches up with me, I will stay there for the night! I actually had a feeling that would be in Escalante, so I stayed alert for hotel or resort signs on the road. That picture of a roadside (the bus was still rolling in Sagay) would later prove to be very handy! While it's not my "style", for whatever reason, this time, I didn't reserve any accommodations anywhere. Just "go travel, eat anywhere and sleep anywhere" was the "theme" heheh! Adventure, di ba? Maiba naman! The vast fields in this province are nice panoramas, especially on a sunny day (sa loob ng aircon bus)! No hills nor mountains.., just very wide fields of green, whether planted to rice, corn and sugarcane. Of course I imagi