My Odd Ventures | The Aesthetic of Lostness

Discover Moalboal

Posted on June 15, 2017 by ZLMD

Travel Period: April 15 – 16, 2017

This post is late, again!

Holy week season, some people would visit churches and some people would take this opportunity to travel, because duh it’s the long weekend! If you’re from Cebu, you know there just two places where most people would go. It could be Bantayan Island or Moalboal. Now, for me, since I don’t wanna travel 6 hours on land and another hour and a half on the sea, I decided to pick Moalboal. It’s a 2hour drive ( private car ) or 3-hour drive ( bus ), super convenient. If you must know, Moalboal is now famous for scuba diving, snorkeling, and the sardine run, thus many tourists would visit this place. There are already many restos developed in this place, and it also has a mall and McDonalds.

When you’re in Moalboal, there are two places where you can go, it could be Basdaku or Basdiot. As for me, I always choose Basdaku, aside from being cheap compared to Basdiot, you can also install your tents here and it has a bigger area.

There are a lot of fun activities here! You can snorkel, scuba dive, or go on an island hopping.

Island hopping costs about P2500 for a max of ten pax. You can also try to haggle with the price, be sure to use your charm 😉 Island hopping is consists of Pescador Island, Turtle Island and a swim in the sardine run area. Trust me, It’s worth the money you pay for.

First stop: Pescador Island

The guide will give you enough time to roam in the Island and if you’re brave enough, you could also cliff dive ( just make sure that you won’t land on rocks though ) It’s dive at your own risks, so be careful!

Second stop: Turtle Island

Our guide told us that there are turtles seen in this area. We waited for about an hour, still, no turtle/s came to greet us. So we decided to leave and just go to the last stop.

Third stop: Sardine run

It’s scary but breathtaking and definitely the highlight of my holy week travel!

Come to Camotes

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ZLMD

March 28 – 29, 2016

Summer is fast approaching and it’s time for another family vacation. Now the question is, where to go? I was looking for a near & budget-friendly tourist spot, affordable accommodation, honest locals and fine white sand. The search is over when one of my friends told me to go to Camotes. So I asked some advice and tips from friends when one of them told me that they own a resort near Santiago beach. Voila! This is what I’m looking for! C’mon Vamonos!

After we arrived at Camotes port, we rented a trike to go to Santiago beach.

It took more than thirty minutes to reach this place from the port. We arrived at around 5 PM, checked in, change and went outside to eat dinner. After dinner, we chilled at the Dread House bar, had some few drinks and slept.

Remember the trike we rented yesterday? It’s the same trike we used to tour around. We haggle for the price and came up with P800 / whole day trip.

The picture doesn’t justify how high this cliff is. I have bathophobia, with all the traumas I’ve experienced since I was a kid, it developed to bathophobia anxiety. Even I have this illness, the other side of me still wants to try jumping from a cliff, you don’t want to know how much effort my fam put to let me try this lol. No picture was taken because I jumped without them knowing. I did it! I did it! Since we are in a hurry to make it to the last trip, we immediately went back to the room and packed our things. It was a beautiful and memorable experience!

P.S. : If you want to visit Camotes, you can contact kuya Pilo below :

Batong Malunhaw, Alegria

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ZLMD

Date: 04/08/2017

How do you celebrate your last day at work?

After all the doubts I had, I finally decided to resign from working the night shift. Thus, my officemates are thinking how they can make memories with me before leaving them. Some of them decided to assign each person to bring specific food that I like. I was confused for a second if they’re happy about me leaving because we’re like celebrating it. Kidding haha.

While my other group of friends decided to go on a team building in Alegria ( about 3-hour road trip using a private car ), I never heard of batong malunhaw before, and when they told that this is where we’re going, I immediately searched thru the internet to see what it looks like. Truth be told, I don’t recommend you go for it. I wasn’t really expecting much but still, I’m disappointed. From the pictures in google, the resort has pool included in your stay, but when we arrived, the pool’s water was super green and one of the staff told us that we can’t use it since it’s not cleaned yet. Ok, no pool ( that’s fine you’re here for the beach ), I went to the comfort room to shower and change before going to the beach, to my surprise, there’s no water coming out from the faucet ( that’s fine, you can just go to the beach and take a dip ), so finally, I head to the beach and just to find out that I’ll be adding it to my disappointment list. I think I’m in the series of unfortunate events, the beach is itchy and has a lot of seaweeds and it has so many rocks/ dead corals, not to mention it’s already low tide when we got there. We huddled and I suggested to transfer to Lambug, Badian, but some of them are tired and were sleeping. No choice, need to stick to the plan. Even though I’m not amazed, I still took a dip and just drank gin to enjoy my stay. I didn’t stay overnight because I don’t see any reason to. I just took a few pictures of the place and went home.