Not enough benches or some seats that are missing? Just take a string and attach it to some plasticchairs. There is your bench.
Still not enough benches? Just carry on doing it...
Showing posts with label Philippines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philippines. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2013
How to... replace a missing bench
Again, the busterminal in Tacloban, a real quarry of curiosities.
Not enough benches or some seats that are missing? Just take a string and attach it to some plasticchairs. There is your bench.
Still not enough benches? Just carry on doing it...
Not enough benches or some seats that are missing? Just take a string and attach it to some plasticchairs. There is your bench.
Still not enough benches? Just carry on doing it...
Philippines XVI
Some picture from on the road. At first the ever-so-present church
and then a picture from the nightferry
and then a picture from the nightferry
Man vs Beast II
...or tourism vs 'eco'-tourism
After not finding the Tarsier in Mindanao i moved to Bohol. Bohol is said to be the only place to find Tarsiers. A lot of people believe that even though it's not true. Tourism in Bohol mainly relys on tourists visiting the 'choclate hills'. A few hills where there's only gras growing. I looked at them driving by with the bus. I would rather want to see a proper forest. There's enough empty space around here. So i informed myself because i wanted to see the tarsiers in the wild.
Oportunity 1 would be the touristzoo with tarsiers in cages that on top calls himself 'conservation blabla'. A joke. I didn't even consider going there.
Oportunity 2 would be the harder to reach and therefore less visited alternative. But they provide and maintain a protected area for the species and from time to time there's even research going on. There works the guy who initiated the whole Conservationprogram. For those reasons i went there and would recommend it to everybody to do so.
There you're going to find a bushy forest of some 170 hectares. In the middle of the forest there's a little house with information and next to it an enclosure. Well, wasn't really what i expected of seeing them in the wild. During the night they get attracted by lights, because they're mainly feeding on insects. I couldn't tell if they really stay by choice. But the lady guiding us told me, if they wanted to leave, they could. Well during daytime they sleep in the bushes.
Then you just have to find them. Which is a challenge cause they're only as big as a hand.
Here is a picture of the entire animal with the long tail (at the bottom left corner of the picture)
And her one from the forest
After not finding the Tarsier in Mindanao i moved to Bohol. Bohol is said to be the only place to find Tarsiers. A lot of people believe that even though it's not true. Tourism in Bohol mainly relys on tourists visiting the 'choclate hills'. A few hills where there's only gras growing. I looked at them driving by with the bus. I would rather want to see a proper forest. There's enough empty space around here. So i informed myself because i wanted to see the tarsiers in the wild.
Oportunity 1 would be the touristzoo with tarsiers in cages that on top calls himself 'conservation blabla'. A joke. I didn't even consider going there.
Oportunity 2 would be the harder to reach and therefore less visited alternative. But they provide and maintain a protected area for the species and from time to time there's even research going on. There works the guy who initiated the whole Conservationprogram. For those reasons i went there and would recommend it to everybody to do so.
There you're going to find a bushy forest of some 170 hectares. In the middle of the forest there's a little house with information and next to it an enclosure. Well, wasn't really what i expected of seeing them in the wild. During the night they get attracted by lights, because they're mainly feeding on insects. I couldn't tell if they really stay by choice. But the lady guiding us told me, if they wanted to leave, they could. Well during daytime they sleep in the bushes.
Then you just have to find them. Which is a challenge cause they're only as big as a hand.
Here is a picture of the entire animal with the long tail (at the bottom left corner of the picture)
And her one from the forest
Beast:
1 Tiburonny: 1, eventhough i don't really count it as a win. But probably you have to be happy to be able to still see them.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Campamento Cave
Bad weather and bad waves, let's go caving. There, it doesn't matter.
Roots at the entrance of the cave
At the entrance of the cave
Unfortunately, the stalagmites/ stalactites weren't that impressive like in the last cave
In exchange there was a big spider
The height of the rooms was all the more impressive, here even with a breaktrough. Unfortunately for the size of the rooms a lot of the picture didn't turn out good so you have to imagine the rest for yourself, hehe.
Roots at the entrance of the cave
At the entrance of the cave
Unfortunately, the stalagmites/ stalactites weren't that impressive like in the last cave
In exchange there was a big spider
The height of the rooms was all the more impressive, here even with a breaktrough. Unfortunately for the size of the rooms a lot of the picture didn't turn out good so you have to imagine the rest for yourself, hehe.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Philippines XV
idyllic tropics for the ones...
...a beautiful Righthander for the others. Not the most inviting Line-up shot, but the waves were too inviting to keep on making pictures (shoulderhigh and offshore). Ont top of that, like so often, i had to surf alone. It starts to get boring. Send someone to surf with me, please.
...a beautiful Righthander for the others. Not the most inviting Line-up shot, but the waves were too inviting to keep on making pictures (shoulderhigh and offshore). Ont top of that, like so often, i had to surf alone. It starts to get boring. Send someone to surf with me, please.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Somir-cave / Northern Surigao
After 5 hours looking for surfable waves without result....
...it was time to change the plan. I just had to find a guy named Raúl in a village wher i've never been before. Found out pretty fast where he lives (in the house next to the basketball hoop). Then i had the priviledge to be one of the first ever foreigners to visist the Somir cave ('I think i'm going to call it Somir-cave'). Thats the entrance to the cave
after the first narrow passage you end up in this chamber
then you 'just' have to squeeze through the next hole...
to end up in the main part of the cave
Greetings to Knut, the old speleologist
...it was time to change the plan. I just had to find a guy named Raúl in a village wher i've never been before. Found out pretty fast where he lives (in the house next to the basketball hoop). Then i had the priviledge to be one of the first ever foreigners to visist the Somir cave ('I think i'm going to call it Somir-cave'). Thats the entrance to the cave
after the first narrow passage you end up in this chamber
then you 'just' have to squeeze through the next hole...
to end up in the main part of the cave
then there is spectacular formations,
music,
a few inhabitants and a subterranean lake for a bath
Greetings to Knut, the old speleologist
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Philippines XII
Me: ''So you go surfing?''
Local: ''Nah, waves nah good!''
Okay, than i'll go surfing alone. Like nearly everytime....
Local: ''Nah, waves nah good!''
Okay, than i'll go surfing alone. Like nearly everytime....
Friday, January 25, 2013
How to... get rid of pain / the cocodunk II
What to do against pain in your foot? Surf! Two times surfing and the pain is gone. Now the foot is only swollen and blue. Let some doctor explain that, hehe.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
the cocodunk
Thats why you shouldn't do a dunking with a coconut on uneven ground. That probably one ligament less.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Phlippines X
18h stranded in the harbour of Liloan/ Leyte because the ferry in the background had engineproblems
Tuesday is boulderday (2)
What to do if the weather changes and destroys the expected perfect surf but it's too late to leave?
Option I: place yourself on a deckchair at the pool --> NO WAY, NEVER!!! No chance for this option!
Option II: You walk along the seemingly endless and straight beach until it finally gets more interesting
Then you encounter a climbing crag into which there could easily be bolted some 50 routes around 20m to 30m in height. Naturally, you want to see them closer so you cross the 'river' which later turns out to be a strait between two islands. 'Hah', you're thinking, 'done!'. But then there's the exhausting and dangerous approach to the rock over crumbling limestonerocks and through the bushes. And despite the all-terrain-highaltitude-fliflops you're thinking the first time: 'Why can't i just be a normal tourist and just for one day do nothing and be happy with lying at the pool?'
After your flipflop got stuck for about the tenth time in between the rocks and uncountable stones crumbled under the weight of your body you're reaching the crag thinking: 'Hah, that was easy!'. Then you can climb some routes on 'sight' in your head.
For the way back you're thinking to yourself: 'I'm not so stupid and gonna walk through the stones anymore!' and you choose the mangroves. After a while you're seeing yourself twisting and wiggeling like Bear Grylls through the roots and branches of the mangrovetrees and you start thinking again: 'Why the hell can't i just be happy sitting at the pool? Or be happy with just booking an all-inklusive holiday and do nothing all day?'. Then, after a while, you're reaching a village in which everyone looks at you totally astonished and probably thinking: 'What the hell is he doing here?'. And they're right.
There you go to the bakery and buy a bun with a surprisingly purple-coloured filling.
After that you go home.
There you see the pool as an option for the next day.
--> NO WAY, NEVER!!!
Option I: place yourself on a deckchair at the pool --> NO WAY, NEVER!!! No chance for this option!
Option II: You walk along the seemingly endless and straight beach until it finally gets more interesting
Then you encounter a climbing crag into which there could easily be bolted some 50 routes around 20m to 30m in height. Naturally, you want to see them closer so you cross the 'river' which later turns out to be a strait between two islands. 'Hah', you're thinking, 'done!'. But then there's the exhausting and dangerous approach to the rock over crumbling limestonerocks and through the bushes. And despite the all-terrain-highaltitude-fliflops you're thinking the first time: 'Why can't i just be a normal tourist and just for one day do nothing and be happy with lying at the pool?'
After your flipflop got stuck for about the tenth time in between the rocks and uncountable stones crumbled under the weight of your body you're reaching the crag thinking: 'Hah, that was easy!'. Then you can climb some routes on 'sight' in your head.
For the way back you're thinking to yourself: 'I'm not so stupid and gonna walk through the stones anymore!' and you choose the mangroves. After a while you're seeing yourself twisting and wiggeling like Bear Grylls through the roots and branches of the mangrovetrees and you start thinking again: 'Why the hell can't i just be happy sitting at the pool? Or be happy with just booking an all-inklusive holiday and do nothing all day?'. Then, after a while, you're reaching a village in which everyone looks at you totally astonished and probably thinking: 'What the hell is he doing here?'. And they're right.
There you go to the bakery and buy a bun with a surprisingly purple-coloured filling.
After that you go home.
There you see the pool as an option for the next day.
--> NO WAY, NEVER!!!
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