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Update - Cycle Touring the Philippines - End of Day 27 in Country.
I have now returned to my original starting point; Cebu City. It was a 4.5 hour Fast Ferry ride in Business Class from Dumaguete. I am here for three nights before flying out on Monday and returning to Perth via Singapore and Bali. Thankfully, the Hotel agreed to keep my bike box for me and so I don’t have to scour the town looking for one.
Distance cycled - 624.6km.
Vids to follow.
See you on the other side
See captions below.
Sisters of St. Paul Monument.
Words fail me. I don’t know how to respond.
Beach assault, 29 October 1904.
Extract from Google,
‘We, the Sisters of St. Paul, are joyful, creative, women, passionately on fire with God’s love. Animated by hope and characterized by tranquil daring, we see God in each other, in the larger community and in creation. Freed by the Gospel, we risk to be for Christ in his compassion for suffering people – above all to women and the poorest of the poor – by sharing in the teaching and health care mission of the Church’.
Improvise, adapt, overcome. My Hotel room doesn’t have a fridge. Gotta keep the beer cold any way you can.
An ‘Enforcer’ in Dumaguete. Their job is to issue fines to Riders not wearing helmets, smoking in public and other minor infractions.
Campanario de Dumaguete.
It is the oldest bell tower in Visayas and one of the historical markers in the province. It was built to monitor and warn the locals of any danger. It was one of four.
The Japanese needed some of the natural resources that the Philippines had to offer to keep feeding Japan’s war machine. It was in the Philippines that Douglas MacArthur uttered those words ‘I shall return’ as he waded thru the water to board a PT boat to escape the Philippines earlier during the War in 1942.
I took a day trip to Manjuyod Sandbar. At low tide the sandbar is completely exposed. This was the approach as we got closer to the Sandbar.
Low tide was at 7.30am. I got there about 8.30am and the tide had turned. Within an hour, the sandbar had disappeared.
The huts are/were for day use only…only one was habitable. The rest were at different stages of disrepair.
This is a Star Fish.
The passenger terminal for the Fast Ferry to Cebu via Tagbilaran on Bohol…most people were headed for Bohol which was the next closest Island. That included a lotta Western tourists.
I’m surprised more passengers (Westerners) didn’t pay the extra few $$$$ to upgrade to Business Class. The difference was probably the cost of a cup of coffee in Oz.
All the paperwork and tickets for me and the bike to get from Point A to C via B. This was the most complicated move on a Ferry yet. I had to go from building to building, pay a Fee for different things (bike, terminal fee, some sort of wharf clearance and the list goes on). Thankfully, I allowed plenty of time before departure ‘just in case’. I still enjoy the challengers that being an independent traveller brings with it…no package tours for me (yet).
The bike, trailer and footwear have to cleaned before returning to Oz, especially after the Bali Foot and Mouth Disease scare. This bloke did a great job for less than $2AUD.
I covered some Country (over 600km of cycling) and visited several Islands of the Philippines on this journey. I know more about the Filipino Culture now then I did before and that’s the whole objective of cycle touring. No regrets!
Get back to work..
