Philippine Dreams
We flew into Singapore today and left the Philippines behind. And yes, we where kind of sad, since we had a great time there!
The first day after arriving at the Philippines we spent in Cebu, the second largest city of the Philippine Islands. And it was a very, lets say interesting, experience. We where walking around the town, it was raining, all the wast and water was running down the streets. It was dirty everywhere. We bought a lot of food just of the street in China, but in Cebu you had the feeling of getting sick just by walking though the streets. It was really bad, way worse than we expected!
But I don’t think it was a wasted day, even though it was the worst of our trip so far. It kind of helped to put the following days into the right light.
The plan was to go to Malapascua Island after visiting Cebu city to do some diving. And this island was nothing like Cebu City, it was just beautiful! Palm trees everywhere, long sandy beaches, blue sky, blue water, sleeping in a little hut right at the beach and enjoying a very relaxing life with not many tourist joining us. It was just what you imagine a holiday beach in the Philippines looks like.
While we where there I took my Open Water Dive Certificate and Christian was diving all day long. Diving felt quite wired at first, but after I got used to all this heavy gear and the strange feeling of breathing under water, it was just awesome! You are totally weightless under water, just floating around, looking at fish, snakes, corals, snales,… And I even saw sharks on my last dive! So crazy those creatures!
After we spend 4 (too short) days on this little island, we took a flight to Manila to meet a Philippine friend of Christian in Manila. And it was so worth it! Jay met us in Manila and spent three wonderful days with us! It is so awesome to have a local friend showing you around, bringing you to the local eateries and pubs, showing you how buying fresh seafood and fish at the market and getting it cooked by a local eatery works, driving you to the most random places nobody else would ever find. You can’t pay that off with anything! We had the best food ever on the trip (even if Philippine food is not very famous, we liked it a lot), we got invited for diner to a Philippine families house, we went to remote hot springs in the jungle,… It was just fantastic.
So we where all a bit sad to say good bye yesterday, especially when you know, we won’t see each other again so soon.
Apart from that we are now in Singapore, Chistians temporary home a couple of years ago. So I got the best local information just right from him 
Lets see what this city has to offer!
Nice to hear that you are having a good time and enyojing diving. Here in sweden it is cold and dark both above and below the surface =)