You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
Hi! It’s me again 🙂
I was itching already to write however I’m not sure how to put it into words but definitely you won’t mind so here it is. LOL
Month of August was a boring month for me since I didn’t have plans. I feel dreadful looking at my friends posts talking about their escapades. 🙈🙈
Can’t wait for the August month to finish. How silly of me. 😉
Come September, I was jumping for joy since I’ll be visiting my hometown. 😈😂😄 I was looking at my calendar and was very excited for the upcoming days.
First day of September I met up with my virtual friend Noreen. I feel relieved after all those plans of meeting each other we finally made it. 👭😍😍
By next day, I flew to Cebu. We’re supposed to be four (4) however one was sick so we were three (3) instead. 😔
Our flights delayed c/o AirAsia, as usual what’s new these days right? 😞😒
Abi flew ahead of us without any delays unlike our flight. We arrived so late that she had to wait for us at the airport all by herself. (Can’t picture how boring it would be to wait all by yourself 😣😒🙈 )
Soon as we arrived, we hired a Grab Taxi getting to my house to leave our bags and hired another cab going to Crown Regency for the sky adventure however it was closed. Little did we know that the registration is until 2200 only so we walked ourselves out and led them to “Larsian” (a barbecue place).
Stayed there for almost an hour, met up my other virtual friend Ed (👎 i forgot to take a pic) and went to I.T Park for the “Sugbu Market” or like the banchetto in Manila. We spent our time there until we separated and went back to my house to rest. 😃
The next day, we woke up very early. Took a public jeepney going to Quest Hotel since we had a reservation. 😎 We left our bags and hired a cab to South Bus Terminal and rode a bus going to Alegria for our day’s adventure. 😍😍
We were supposed to be guided by Sir Raymund however we’re too indecisive that we ended up getting a new guide on the spot. Gladly we got ourselves a guide, Kuya Brian through Sir Niño.
Met up with our guide for the activity. We only did half canyoneering activity since the other guests cancelled. 🙈😔
Around 1500 in the afternoon we were done and took a bus back to the City. 😊😁
We rested as soon as we arrived in the hotel and bought some snacks and souvenirs at a nearby mall before we left for dinner at Tisa, Labangon as they wanted to try the famous “Siomai sa Tisa” (Tisa’s pork dumplings).
Ate our hearts out and paid. Left and took a cab to Crown Regency for the sky adventure. 😁
Ended our night pretty good and successful too bad it was Abi’s last day hoping she enjoyed her short getaway. 🙈😅
Woke up to another new day and decided that we’ll just roam around the city. HAHA
Contacted Kuya Rey 👨 (+63942.3656.936) to assist us in roaming around. Our 1st agenda for the morning tour was Taoist Temple:
then head off to the flower farm 🌷🍃🌹🌸🌻 which was located in Sirao:
after admiring all the beautiful flowers, we head off to Tops to see a glimpse of the city 🌇:
and last but not the least before we had our lunch was the new built structured Temple of Leah:
Had our lunch in Lantaw Busay branch before we head back down.
After the morning tour, I decided we’d visit our next destination which was located at Minglanilla rather than Olanggo Island since we only have few hours left and perhaps we might not enjoy.
As we arrived at Minglanilla, no one knows the exact location of our next destination. We asked one motorcycle regarding about it and he answered us that the place was accessible via Tabunok. We asked another motorcyle driver to confirmed it and so we took a public jeepney going to Tabunok. We walked to a group of motorcycle drivers and talked about the said place. Sadly, they’re not familiar. 😲😔🙈 but oh well, we’re already there so why not take risks? 😅😄
The ride going there was a bit rough since the roads still under construction. 😧😮 almost two (2) hours on the road and we were instantly brought to a new place. I felt a new vibe, a different ambiance… no one would notice it luckily our driver, Kuya Cecilio was so keen enough to realized that we already arrived to our destination. 😍😍😍
Back in the city almost 1900 in the evening. Walked the street of Colon and said hi to Sr. Sto Niño then passed through Magellan’s cross before we rode a jeep going to Rico’s lechon for our dinner. 😍😍
SAMPLE ITINERARY:
Day 0
2200 – ETA Cebu City
2300 – Crown Regency
2330 – Larsian Barbecue
0030 – IT Park
0200 – ETA accommodation
Day 1
0530 – Wake up/ Wash up
0600 – ETD Quest Hotel
0630 – ETA Quest Hotel
0800 – ETA South Bus Terminal
1100 – ETA Alegria
1200 – Start of Canyoneering
1430 – End of Canyoneering
1500 – ETD Cebu City
1900 – ETA Cebu City
1930 – ETA accommodation
2100 – ETA Tisa, Labangon
2200 – ETA Crown Regency
2300 – ETA accommodation
Day 2
0600 – Wake up/ wash up
0900 – ETA JY Square Mall
**start of morning tour
– Taoist Temple
– Sirao Flower Farm
– Tops Skyline view
– Temple of Leah
1200 – Lunch at Lantaw – Busay Branch
1330 – ETA South Bus Terminal
1400 – ETA Minglanilla
1430 – ETA Tabunok proper, Talisay
1500 – ETD Campo Siete
1730 – ETA Tabunok proper
1800 – ETA Cebu City
1830 – Visit Sto Niño Church & Magellan’s cross
1930 – ETA Rico’s lechon
2100 – ETA accommodation/ Rest
SAMPLE BUDGET EXCLUDING FOOD AND MISCELLANEOUS:
ACCOMMODATION
| Hotel’s Name | Day of Stay | Rate | # of pax | total per pax |
| Quest Hotel | overnight | 2,500 | 2 | 1250 |
| Our house | 2 nights | free | 3 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 1,250 |
FARE
| Destination | Rate | # of pax | Total per pax |
| RT airfare MNL-CEBU | 518 | 3 | 173 |
| Cab: airport to house | 260 | 3 | 87 |
| Cab: house to crown regency | 220 | 3 | 74 |
| Cab: larsian to IT Park | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Cab: IT park to house | 170 | 3 | 57 |
| Jeep: House to Ayala | 33 | 3 | 11 |
| Cab: Ayala to South Bus Terminal | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Bus: Cebu to Alegria (non a/c) | 390 | 3 | 130 |
| Tricycle: Badian to Moalboal | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Bus: Moalboal to Cebu (a/c) | 357 | 3 | 119 |
| Cab: Bus terminal to Accom | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Cab: Accom to Tisa | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Cab: Tisa to Crown Regency | 80 | 3 | 27 |
| Cab: Crown Regency to Accom | 100 | 3 | 34 |
| Cab: Accom to JY Square Mall | 100 | 2 | 50 |
| Cab: JYSquare Mall to South Bus Terminal | 100 | 2 | 50 |
| Mini-bus: Cebu City to Minglanilla | 50 | 2 | 25 |
| Jeep: Minglanilla to Tabunok | 14 | 2 | 7 |
| Motorcycle: Tabunok to Campo Siete | 500 | 2 | 250 |
| Bus: Tabunok to Cebu City (a/c) | 100 | 2 | 50 |
| Cab: Cebu City to Tabo-an | 60 | 2 | 30 |
| Jeep: Tabo-an to Colon | 14 | 2 | 7 |
| Jeep: Colon to Panagdait | 14 | 2 | 7 |
| Jeep: Panagdait to Ayala | 14 | 2 | 7 |
| Cab: Ayala to house | 200 | 2 | 100 |
| TOTAL | 1,465 |
TOURS
| TOURS | total per pax |
| Canyoneering | 1000 |
| 2nd day morning tour | 350 |
| **taoist temple | no entrance fee |
| **temple of Leah | 50 |
| **tops | 100 |
| **sirao flower farm | 25 |
| TOTAL | 1525 |
Phew! That’s a wrap then. So many activities to do yet so little time. 😣🙈🙈🙈🙈 until my next adventure then. Now, where to next? 🙈
