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Friday, May 20 The Manila airport was, per usual, terrible. There was about a thousand checkpoints and an over abundance of security checks where the metal detectors didn’t appear to be on and the staff were looking at their phones instead of the X-ray screen. What annoys me most about security checkpoints in Manila (includingContinue reading “Perth”

Wednesday, May 18 Every travel blog recommends spending as little time in Manila as possible. But, given the atrocity that is the Manila airport, we wanted to give as long of a layover as we could before heading to Australia. So we decided to spend two nights and one day, to leave ample time andContinue reading “Manila”

Friday, May 13 The ferry from El Nido to Coron only runs three days per week. We didn’t know that when we planned our Philippines itinerary but by chance we got lucky and happened to plan our travel day the same day as the Friday ferry. The ferry was supposed to leave at noon andContinue reading “Coron”

Wednesday, May 11 We walked down to the waterfront to a cafe for breakfast and had some spam and fried egg with rice and a side of chocolate cake. Our van to El Nido picked us up promptly at 9 but then went to several hotels, the airport, and a tourist agency at a gasContinue reading “El Nido”

Monday, May 9 I woke up thinking I had drunk too much cheap beer the previous night before realizing I’d had 0 alcohol and was instead feeling the beginnings of a cold. After stomach illness, bad sunburn, and now a cold, I was beginning to think I’d never feel fully well again whilst in theContinue reading “Puerto Princesa”

Friday, May 6 The Cebu City airport is NICE. Like, new section of Newark airport nice. We got some lechon and sat at the airport bar to drink some San Miguel light. The beautiful bathrooms here almost make up for the horrid ones at every roadside stop. Carl pointed out that the Typhoon in DecemberContinue reading “Boracay”

Planning our trip to the Philippines has been some of the most challenging trip planning yet. When you say you’re going to the Philippines anyone that has also been should then ask you, “where?”. Because, unlike Cambodia that has its two main tourist pulls, the Philippines is made up of over 7,000 islands that eachContinue reading “Cebu”

Sunday, May 1 We landed in Manila at about 5am local time. The flight had only been 3 hours with a meal served so we had barely slept. Carl remembered that, on a previous Asia trip, he had a layover in Manila that was the most disorganized international transfer of his life. This time, despiteContinue reading “Malapascua Island”

Wednesday, April 27 We had wanted to get a boat from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh but the boats were not running because we are traveling during the end of the dry season and the water levels are too low for transport. So, we opted for a bus. The hostel offered a van for $1Continue reading “Phnom Penh”

This blog entry is brought to you by Carl Sunday, April 24 We continued our streak of getting issued boarding passes with no problem despite having “no carry-on” tickets and comically overstuffed backpacks. We were flying out of a different Bangkok airport this time, and unfortunately all the cafes in the international terminal were closedContinue reading “Siem Reap”