Sorry about the lack of blog, we've been too busy getting amazing tans :). We will pick up where we left off in Sipalay in the philippines. Adam wanted me to put a pic of him and his scuba hero Mark, our instructor, below. (left of picture) We spent about a week there in which time we passed our PADI open water so we can now go scuba diving anywhere in the world!
From Sipilay we caught a 5h bus down the coast followed by a 2h Ferry over to an Island called Siquijor. The Island has a spooky past and many Philippinos still refuse to visit the island due to its association with magic and spiritual healing! Sijour is undoubtedly the most remote location we have visited so far. Very few tourists visit the island and I think we were somewhat of a novelty. Particularly when driving a moped around the Island. People were literally coming out of their houses to come and wave and shout hello! We explored the island on 2 wheels and stumbled across a really nice waterfall, only accessible by traversing some dodgy terrain and a few slippery slopes.
We also wanted to make sure we could actually dive after doing our certificate, so we booked to dive with a local dive shop. It was slightly different to our earlier experience, as we went out to the dive spot in the tiniest little boat so we had to put our kit on in the water and also our instructor couldn't have been over 18 and took us almost 10 metres below how deep we were meant to be diving! Slightly nerve wracking but luckily we survived and it was really lovely...the fish and coral were really colourful, i wish i could show you some pics but dont think my camera could handle deep sea diving :)
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| VIP transport to our dive |
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| A bit of music production in the mobile studio |
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| Orange head (we must have been bored at this point) |
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| Cambugahay Waterfall |
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| Lovely deserted beach, apart from a few fisherman! |
From Sijour we then had 2 solid days travel, including an over night sleep at Singapore Airport, to reach our next destination - Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. Here we made a good friend Mr Ginger the cat who would guard our room every evening - free of charge! You cannot come to Phi Phi without visiting 'The Beach' which bears some resemblance to the film + a huge number of tourists and boats which takes the shine off it but I guess it is to be expected given its status! Had another incident with bedbugs, but this time we actually found some so luckily changed rooms and haven't seen any since.
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| Beach on phi phi |
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| Ginger Cat (and some really manky furniture outside our room) |
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| Mermaid/drowning? |
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| The Beach |
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| Shisha after a fireshow - |
After a short boat ride we reached the next destination, another Thai Island called Railay. This area is famous professional rock climbing and beach lazing (no guess which one we did!) Twice a day a large family of monkeys would make their may to one of the beaches in search of food and mischief. One particular money attempted to untie our bag and have a rummage around. Luckily we managed to get the bag away just in time.
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| Railay |
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| playing a tune on the bongo |
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| cute? |
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| adam "tan man" brown |
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| Kayaking fun! |
We are now in Bali and will try and update soon! We have been attempting to do some more cultural things so will put some pics up soon including some of adams gig in singapore which was brilliant!
Lots of Love
Lana and Adam xxx
