Philippines Travel Info

Continued from Philippines Vacation Pt2

We stayed in Puerto Princess for a few days. Enjoying shopping and preparing for the rest of out travel. We found a cafe called iToys that offers some nice European and Western food and coffee. They also offer free Wi-Fi. There is a large store in the center of the town, I forget the name but everyone knows it there so it won’t be hard to find. It is like a type of mall but don’t expect anything like you would get in Manila but you can get everything you need from the supermarket there or one of the other department stores in the building.

We hired a motorbike out from a local bike shop for a reasonable price. Something like $150 AU for a week. It was a Honda 200 XR trail bike and perfect for the terrain we would later encounter. It was also fine for the road too with tires fitted for both road and trail.

We decided to go to Port baton through the back way. You head towards north and take a side road several hours later. We met some locals at the intersection and they said it was extremely muddy and I think they were surprised a foreigner would have the balls to go that way.

So we decided to pay a local to come with us on one of his bikes and carry a couple of our bags. We paid about 1000 pesos and it was worth every cent. It was one of the most exciting and challenging things I have done. Lucky I had ridden a trail bike often when young so I still knew somethings. It was great to be back on a bike in mud and I just enjoyed it so much although it was tough going. I had one drink bottle of water and we finished that about half way and I was sweating like a pig right through. My girlfriend hung on for her life and also enjoyed it.

We got to Port Baton finally and found a nice place to stay by the beach. Check out the pics below: