Philippines

4 posts

After Christmas we took the Montenegro fast boat to El Nido, Palawan. Our bikes lashed to the front of the boat with drivechains soaking up all the salt water delivered by the rough seas. El Nido is a busy place, with manic tourists rushing everywhere, many trying to cram everything into a couple of […]

23 Feb 2024

Philippines

The jungle is massive

When we’re not marvelling at the wonders of nature from our bikes we’ve been enjoying cooling down in 28 degree bath water seas. The Philippines is home to more than 52,000 species, more than half of which are endemic to the Philippines. Although the evidence of climate change is painfully obvious in some places, the […]

3 Feb 2024

Philippines

Thanks for all the fish

From venomous sea snakes to Chinese cargo ships, the next leg of our Philippines adventure has offered up an unexpected variety of close encounters. We left you last time as we boarded our second ferry from San Jose to the town of Coron on Busuanga Island. I’m hoping that (assuming you read the last post) […]

6 Jan 2024

Philippines

Fish and Ships

It’s been quite some time since our last adventure, so we didn’t hang about in Manila – jet lag ignored, bikes rebuilt in a day and we set off South (well, across the city to hop on a bus for the first bit, Manila is basically a slow moving car park, it would have taken […]

30 Dec 2023

Philippines

On a pushy? But How?!