My Trips

What a great trip we're on! Yesterday, we traveled from San Jose to Sablayan (a small city on the west coast of Mindoro Island), and took a bancka (like a small boat), out to Pandan Island. What an paradise island! White beaches, palm trees and only one resort with bar and restaurant. The first 5 minutes on the island was kind of unhappy. They didn't have any rooms left for us, except one big family house with a price way to high for us to pay. And what we've heard before, to get out to the coral reef Apo Reef, we woul have to pay about 7000 pesos each = 1200 SEK. So we were all in a bad mood, but after another 5 minues we discovered they had a 2 persons room that we easily could share. Perfect! And it also turned out that is was a boat going to Apo Reef the following day, and we could go with them for 2000 pesos each! What a great deal! And Pandan Island was just sooo beutiful! We took a walk along the beach, collected some shells and went swimming in the ocean. After the beach we had a coctail in the bar, and then a dinner buffet. After a perfect day we all fell asleep with a smile on our lips. What a great adventure we're on!

The next day, we went up at sunrise (6am), had a quick oatmeal breakfast and went out with the boat at 7am. After 2 hours we had reached Apo Reef, one of the world biggest coral reef. So we spend the day snorkeling around and saw sharks, turtles, sword fish and an eel. We also swam through a fish shoal. It was so fun to swim around and explore the ocean. We had lunch on the boat, chicken and rice. After a whole day on the reef and several hours in the water, we went back with the baot to Pandan Island, and both Alice and I fell asleep on the way. Now we're back in Sablayan, are gonna have some noodles for dinner and get one nights sleep at our very cheap hotel cell.

The last 3 days have been really exciting, and we hope we will keep our luck for tomorrow when we'll continue our trip to Puerto Galera.