Travelblog#41: The Visayas Part 4 (Sibuyan Island & Climbing Mount Guiting-Guiting) – the Philippines

4th-9th February, 2015 Not many people seem to go to Sibuyan. And this came as a great surprise to me because when I first started reading the Lonely Planet guide for the Philippines, all those months ago, it was one of the places which I circled very thickly with a pen as somewhere I justContinue reading “Travelblog#41: The Visayas Part 4 (Sibuyan Island & Climbing Mount Guiting-Guiting) – the Philippines”

Travelblog#38: The Visayas Part 1 (Bohol & Siquijor) – the Philippines

­­19th-24th January, 2015 After ten days spent in pretty but a little bit too touristy Palawan, it was time to move on. Me and my three companions – James, Chloe and Jody – boarded a plane. Our next destination was the Visayas; an archipelago of scattered islands which, due to its geographically central location andContinue reading “Travelblog#38: The Visayas Part 1 (Bohol & Siquijor) – the Philippines”

Travelblog#29: Lake Toba – Sumatra, Indonesia

3rd-7th December, 2014 Danau Toba is the largest lake in Southeast Asia. What makes this fact even more impressive is that it is actually a crater for a gargantuan volcano. Thought to have caused a period of ice-age when it erupted 70,000 years ago – the time when geneticists believe the population of the humanContinue reading “Travelblog#29: Lake Toba – Sumatra, Indonesia”