Just over three hours in the minivan, with the last hour being a very bumpy dirt track, we arrived at the small and secluded town of Port Barton. Chris and I were eager to be first off the van in order to be ahead of the crowd to look for a room for the night. We registered and paid the town fee, left our backpacks at the tourism office, and headed to the beach front to look for a room. It wasn't long before we found a lovely bamboo hut at 'Cambugan guest...

To get to 'El Nido' Amelia and I had to take a banca from Coron. We'd heard mostly terrible things about the journey, but we didn't really have any other option. In total the boat journey took six hours, but we struck lucky with the conditions, the sea was as flat as a millpond. We only encountered one issue during our trip, and that was getting from the banca to the shore - unfortunately the tide was out so the banca was unable to get close enoug...

Back in Caticlan, unfortunately the RoRo we aimed for was cancelled, so we had to wait around for a couple of hours until the next one. Chris managed to find us some plastic chairs, and we plonked ourselves by the ticket office, to ensure we got a space.The RoRo took us over to Roxas on Mindoro Island. It took six hours, it was packed due to the previous ferry being cancelled, so we were limited to a bench outside. A friendly, young, Filipino man spent most of th...

Up at just after 5am Amelia and I took a tricycle to the main road in Moalboal town. We then boarded a bus to 'Tangil' ferry port, to take the ferry across to 'Guihulngan, Negros'. After the ferry crossing we hopped on a bus to 'San Carlos', transferring to another bus before making it to 'Bacalod City'. A jeepney, and then a tricycle, took us to the port in Bacalod. We took a 'fast' craft to 'Iloilo City, Panay'. B...

We just made it in time for the ferry back to Cebu City, which landed us just after sunset. Having used so many buses and minivans along the way, we have learnt that they do not tend to run too late into the evening. So Chris and I decided to take a taxi, rather than faffing around with jeepneys, to get us quickly and directly to the bus terminal. Directly, yes, but quickly, not so much, as it was rush hour in the city, so we sat in a lot of traffic. However, we ...