Musings

We’re having a fairly light day on Day 07 at Bohol Island: there’s just one itinerary activity today, and that’d be a river cruise and lunch at Loboc River. We’d be picked up at 11AM and will be back at

We had a few more hours to kill on Day 06 this morning before we had to say goodbye to Malapascua. So after taking a quick look at the morning sunrise videos I took with the DJI Mini 4 Pro

Unlike Sumilon Island, there was no fee or permit needed for me to do aerial videos of Malapascua Island: our resort’s host cheerfully said go right ahead and have fun when I asked. I guess this is in good part

Day 05: we checked out of Radisson Blu Cebu early in the morning, had a quick brunch at McDonald’s, then started the long 3.5-hour drive to the northern tip of Cebu Island, where we were received by our guide for

Another popular and must-do activity on Cebu Island is canyoneering in Badian town, which is also where Kawasan Falls is located. The journey after leaving Pescador Island and heading back to the mainland to Kawasan Falls was about 30 minutes.

Day 04 was a pretty heavy day, itinerary-wise, for us. The planned schedule was for us to check out of our resort in Moalboal early in the morning, then drive to the jetty where we’d boat over to Pescador Island

The Sumilon Sand Bar sits on the south-eastern end of Cebu and is usually an accompanying activity that visitors might include if they’re already in the Oslob area for the whale shark watching activity. The point where boats ferry visitors

Day 03 and we finally get to one of the highlights of this 11-day trip to Cebu: swimming with whale sharks, an experience that’s new for all of us and likely not something we’d do again in the near future!

The 90-minute drive from Simala Shrine to Osmeña Peak was a lot smoother, with fairly low traffic plying the road as we continued south. Osmeña Peak is the tallest point on Cebu Island and sits inside a region of impressive-looking

Despite the fact that we didn’t have that heavy an itinerary on Day 01 — we were just arriving from Singapore, checking into the hotel, then figuring out dinner — all of us were so doggoned tired after the first

Point to note: the line-of-sight distance between Mactan-Cebu International Airport and Radisson Blu Cebu — the property we’re staying in for the first night — is not nearly the actual distance you’d need to travel to get from the airport

Our 11 days in Cebu is one of those trips where we did 99% of our planning months before travel, and thereafter did little else besides wait for the trip to begin. Of the 11 days, seven days would be