Soon it will be one month already after our trip to Philippines, but I can not get down to a report about it and there is progressively smaller chances that I will finish it one day. It is not the point of my report to eliminate whose ever ignorance about this country, eventually there are very much detailed information and accounts, which amaze with its beauty. A purpose of my report is very elementary and egoistical: not to forget it myself. Quite often you give a promise to forget nothing from this journey! And how! How is it possible to forget it?! And many particularities fall out already in half a year. If you want to tell about it your future grandchildren, then you have little chance of success.
Well, at first some theory of number. Our tickets from Moscow to Manila we bought already on the 18 of February by “Qatar airways”. It cost 23576 rub per person and came to 542EUR. It was very cheap, but, frankly speaking, we have very long connecting time – 11 hours in Qatar on the way back. We didn’t have any Visa to go to the city and couldn’t take it in the airport in Qatar. But let’s make it in turns.
Tickets for domestic flight we bought in March, it was for three persons together: 1464php=30.28$ Manila – Cebu, Cebu-Catiklan 3680php, 5427php=110.08$ from Catiklan (Boracay)to Manila, 7670.40php - return tickets from Manila to Busuanga, e. i. about 125$ per person. And else 2200 rub per person (about 60$) cost flight from Kaliningrad to Moscow and back with hateful Skyexpress. I will state residuary prices downstream So, let's return to the question at hand. For flights of Qatar airways there is online check in, but scanty quantity of grey substance didn’t allow me to choose seats in a Plane for all members of our team, as a result I was sitting alone. Fortunately we succeeded in changing it in Domodedovo. Our flight № QR 869 landed in Quatar on time and we were waiting here about 5 hours. We went right away to the second floor, where was a
canteen, to eat, because great part of our team was very hungry. I must say here, I made one more mistake. By buying of the tickets I chose a special sort of meal for myself and my friend. It was only fruit for me and vegetables for her. I wanted to check how this system functions. And I checked.
On the second floor there is a small table and man at the table, who gives free coupons for this canteen, in case your connecting flight is more, than in 4 hours. In this case we ate heartily even very spicy lamb.
At that time in Qatar airport was in quarantine because of the Swine influenza.
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With us is a girl, who traveled alone to Shri Lanka.
We had a conversation and good time.
Qatar observed the time, as ever, and about 3 p.m. we were in Manila. Our next flight to Cebu with “Zest air” was only 20:15. We changed Dollar (rate of exchange was 48.15) and went to the centre of Manila. Before it we removed to Domestic airport by free shuttle bus ( Here is a Communism, which we were building for a long time) and checked in to get rid of luggage. But here we had to pay 200php – fee to airport. Than we took a taxi (200php) and arrived on a sea-front, ate fruits and seafood in a café (tiger prawns cost 160php for 1kg) and went for walk.
Sunsets are very beautiful in that region.
Heavy shower broke out before departure to Cebu. Staff of airport covered with big umbrellas whole ladder.
We were In Cebu late, and came right away to our Hotel: “Cebu Business Hotel,” which we had booked at home with payment on check in. To tell the truth, we booked all Hotels on our way with payment on check in and fortunately, they were waiting us. Taxi to/from airport to these Hotel cost about 150-200php and to/from port, (pier № 4) only 50php. Driver, who took us to Hotel was “didn’t understand”, ‘non capito’, ‘no comprender’ and even “nicht verstehen”, therefore we remained without dinner. In general it is fairy tales, that everybody here speaks English. It seems to me that somebody recently went down from mountains.
As it turned out in the morning there is a supermarket across the street, which is called “138”and open until 21:00. There is one more supermarket 100m along the street, which is opened until late at night. Everything is very cheap there. For example Rum 12 years old (staying power) 160php=3.3$, mango, avocado less that 50php and so on.
The Hotel was not really ‘super good’: early in the morning began to call the telephone for staff, near our door, windows look into the wall, breakfast was not included but eventually it suited us for 2 nights.
To say it briefly, in the morning we came to the Port pier № 4 to Bohol island, but, certainly, we made a mistake with piers. This is the pier №1, and we needed № 4.
Staff of pier №1 had tried to go deeply into our problems, therefore we came almost late to our pier № 4 and our ferry “Ocean Jet”. According to advice of good people we had booked this ferry at home too, and as we eventually came to pier № 4 we saw this:
There is some opinion in internet, that this ferry was never full.
But we had number of booking. We were reproved for our late coming but were boarded after an explanation.
A dog sniffed all passengers and their luggage. Unfortunately, my camera skipped to manual control and photo isn’t clear.
The people, who are waiting their ferry on the second floor, can receive a massage.
We were surprised at ferry, because it wasn’t slotted boat.
and interior
We came to Tagbilaran safely in 2 hours,
Than we took a driver, whose name was Zui.
He and his auto cost us 2500php. The Price included a visit to Alone beach.
All other development was same of everybody: amateur art activities and folk dance:
It was very good, that we receive a food, because ‘nightingale isn’t fed with fables’.
The next raft with foreign ate less rich, than our.
We were shown a big waterfall:
In butterfly park we had an interesting excursion.
Philippine girl told us about lifestyle of butterfly. The meaning of life for this sort of butterfly is sex. They live only some hours at that half of life they have sex.
Obviously other half they spend for Food:
Such a Lifestile! If only we would live in such way!
Let’s go to another lifestyle – more depressing.
I don’t know, why these animals are described in internet as depressing. In our presence they weren’t
dashing against the cell, and oppositly were very friendly. One could keep them in the hand.
We had visited Chocolate Hills too.
Here we saw new species of tarsier: well-fed "dry-nosed" primates:
We were in first Catholic church, which was build by Europeans and on the Alone beach. I can say, that the last we liked most of all. We got a possibility one bit to relax- first for last 50 hours. We bathed, were getting a tan and drank wine. Our driver wasn’t very importunate and observed us from a distance, but we didn’t prefer tobe late to ferry. Eventually we had some more time on Boracay, although first we had to back to Cebu. Nobody likes Cebu, and we aren’t exception. Very dirty:
And so, on the 5th of may we came to Caticlan with legendary ‘Cebu Pacific’, which weighted not only luggage and People too:
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Than we ferried from Caticlan to Boracay by this ‘large’ boat
After that took a tricycle for 100php to our hotel
By the way we paid seldom more than 30-50php for this transport
And hurrah! We were here! This is our Hotel : ”Las Brisas”
On the whole we remained very glad of our choose.
For 5 Nights we paid 22100php, although after wrangle. This haggling went on for a long time and through the letters. My letters to manager Devine can were published, as ‘Lenin’s letters from far away’. She is really a nice girl, she is on right.
But than next 5 nights we received only for 19500, after conversation with mistress of this hotel.
As I said before, we changed all hotels through internet, and didn’t have any mistakes. Moreover after 5 days of staying on Boracay, we didn’t find any thing better, than “Las Brisas”. I mean about concept price/quality.
It’s quite possible, that it seems many people that 10 days on Boracay is very much, as for me, but you didn’t see glad faces of my friends here and very sad on day of our departure.
All that is possible on this island we made: we came on viewpoint by motorbike
went for a wave runner (detcki?)
bought pearls,
made a trip by boat round island,
It is continued…
Обманула. Продолжать не стала. Друзьям просто фотки с короткими коментами послала. В этом году на Филы просто паломничество с форума было. Очень много хороших отчетов и фоток. Тем более наш маршрут оригинальностью не отличается. После Боракая мы полетели на Бусуангу на пару дней, через Манилу и потом день в Маниле и домой. На Бусуанге мне лично оч понравилось, как и большинству выступающих здесь с отчетами гражданам. Один день мы потратили на традиционный “объезд владений” на арендованной лодке с шикарным ланчем на природе, а второй погружались к затонувшим кораблям от Сидайв клуба. Основная туса всех приезжающих туда паломников- иностранцев находится и проживает в Сидайве. У меня лично сложилось такое впечатление. А мы жили в Микеланжело, но думаю условия проживания везде схожие. На само жильё жалоб не возникло, тем более что жили мы там за смешные деньги, и проезд до того же Сидайва почти ничего не стоил. Правда честности ради, следует отметить, что персонал там самый тугой из всех нам встретившихся в этой поездке.
По сему считаю произведение законченным, пскольку про эти места можно говорить вечно и все равно не договорить до конца.
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