Musings

Our notes summarising our experiences and reflections on each activity and place during this 11-day trip to Cebu! Of the 11 days, 7 were activity days, while the others were largely administrative and/or spent just lazing around. Firstly, some quick

Our flight home to Singapore was departing Mactan-Cebu International Airport at 3:40PM, and check-out at the Radisson Blu Cebu was at noon. The most convenient place to get lunch was still SM City Cebu, which unfortunately only opens at 10AM.

Over our 11-day vacation in Cebu, we had reservations to stay at the Radisson Blu Cebu on three different occasions: Day 01, Day 04, and Days 08 to 10 nights. I suppose one could say we became rather experienced guests

We stayed in five different properties over our 11-day vacation in Cebu, with all except the Radisson Blu Cebu involving just a one- or two-night stay. This trip involved more accommodation changes than any vacation we’ve taken so far. But

Our two free days in Cebu were days where we did not have firm plans on what to see or do. We had initially listed down two activities: more island hopping for snorkeling, and also a family-oriented water park resort

This spot – Loboc River – wasn’t in our planned itinerary for Day 08. But as we had some spare time to kill as we kept our visit to the Tarsier Sanctuary short, our guide brought us to what seemed

The Bohol Mahogany Forest, or more commonly known as the Bilar Man-Made Forest, was a short couple of minutes drive from the Tarsier Sanctuary. The white and red mahogany trees are tall and their density creates a canopy effect as

A visit to one of the couple of Tarsier sanctuaries is also a standard inclusion in most visitors’ itineraries to Bohol. Tarsiers are small, monkey-like nocturnal mammals with huge eyes. Today, they are found only in selected countries in Southeast

We saw no other visitor groups during our morning visit to the Cadapdapan rice terraces. The Chocolate Hills of Bohol was the opposite: it was congested, full of visitors – both domestic and international – and the view from the

Day 08 — the heaviest day itinerary-wise of this 11-day trip. Early in the morning we checked out of our resort at Alona Beach, then began a road trip that would take us across the breadth of Bohol Island before

We had a pretty light day on Day 07. The morning was free for us to sleep in — the missus and kids at least, as I got up early to do aerial videos of Alona Beach at sunrise —