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• Day 0 to Day 2: Bislig (Surigao del Sur) and Butuan 2-Day Itinerary
• Day 3 to Day 5: Camiguin Island 3-Day Itinerary

Day 5

• 2:45pm – Ride bus to malaybalay – P85
• 6:00pm – Arrival in Malaybalay Bus Terminal
• Walk to Malaybalay Plaza
• Checkin at Plaza View Tourist Inn – double room (no single room vacant) – P300
• Walk to Mindy’s restaurant
• Dinner at Mindy’s – Baby Back ribs (p110), botomless iced tea (p50), +service charge – p175 total

Day 6

• Breakfast at Batchoyan – Miswa with egg batchoy (p45), coke (P10)
• Ride motorella to Bukidnon Provincial Capitol – P7
• Walk to Kaamulan Park, visit Provincial Tourism Office
• Ride motorella to Highway – P7
• Ride multicab to Brgy.  San Jose – P10
• Walk to Monastery of Transfiguration (1.5kms)
• Buy coffee + tablea – p100+
• Walk back to highway
• Ride multicab to Plaza – p10
• Check-out
• Walk to Bus Terminal
• Ride “Cagayan de Oro bound” bus. Drop off at  the intersection going to Del Monte Golf Course at Manolo Fortich – p20
• Walk to Del Monte Golf Course
• Lunch at the Clubhouse – Medium house steak (p400), +iced tea – P546 total bill
• Walk to highway
• 2:00pm – Ride bus to Cagayan de Oro – P65
• 6:00pm – Arrive in Cagayan de Oro

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• Day 6 to Day 7: Iligan Waterfalls and Cagayan de Oro 2-Day Itinerary
• Day 8 to Day 12: Siargao, Bucas Grande, and Surigao del Norte 4-day Itinerary

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• Day 0 to Day 2: Bislig (Surigao del Sur) and Butuan 2-Day Itinerary
• Day 3 to Day 5: Camiguin Island 3-Day Itinerary
• Day 5 to Day 6: Malaybalay and Bukidnon 2-Day Itinerary

Day 6

• 6:00pm arrive in cagayan
• Ride RBC jeep to cor Borja-Velez St. – p6
• Walk to divisoria
• Fullybooked at Plaza view inn
• Checkin at red palm inn – p490 single aircon x 2 nights
• Dinner at mcdo (chicken fillet, large fries) – p150

Day 7

• Ride jeep to bulua bus terminal – p10
• 9:00 Ride bus to iligan – p85?? Aircon
• 10:45 arrive in iligan
• Ride jeep to back of cathedral – p7
• Ride buru-un jeep to angus hydroplant gate – p10
• Walk to g8
• Entrance fee to maria cristina – p20+ 10 shuttle fee
• 12:30 ride jeep to linamon – p7
• Ride jeep back to talipapa at buruun
• Lunch at gloria ihaw ihaw (1\4 kilo lechon – p90, 8pcs puso – p48, coke) – p150
• Ride jeep to intersexn going to tinago falls – p7
• Ride habal-habal to tinago … Offer was p50 oneway … Rented habal-habal rt tinago with sidetrip to mimbalut – p130
• Entrance fee to tinago falls – p10
• Cable car ride in mimbalut – p60
• Drop off at mimbalut falls
• Walk to highway
• Ride jeep to gaisano – p10
• Buy green sando – p167
• Ride jeep to tambo bus terminal – p7
• Ride nac bus to cagayan – p85
• Ride jeep to divisoria – p10
• Dinner at mcdo (chicken nugget, regular fries) – p150

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• Day 8 to Day 12: Siargao, Bucas Grande, and Surigao del Norte 4-day Itinerary

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• Day 0 to Day 2: Bislig (Surigao del Sur) and Butuan 2-Day Itinerary
• Day 3 to Day 5: Camiguin Island 3-Day Itinerary
• Day 5 to Day 6: Malaybalay and Bukidnon 2-Day Itinerary
• Day 6 to Day 7: Iligan Waterfalls and Cagayan de Oro 2-Day Itinerary

Day 8

• 7:00 Ride taxi to agora – p52.50
• Buy 500ml h20 – p20
• Ride ac bus to butuan – p280
• Pastel 6′s – p75
• 11:00 arrive in butuan
• 11:50 ride van to surigao city – p130
• 2:00 arrive in surigao
• Lunch at islands (wifi, prawn tempura – p165, 2rice – 30, iced tea – p35) – p230
• walk to slb
• Checkin at single shared br fan – p200
• Walk to tourism office
• Walk to caltex
• Ride tricycle to capitol – p7
• Internet – p30
• 1l h20 – p15.75
• Dinner at jollibee – p126

Day 9

• Ride tricycle to pier
• 6:00 roro got broken
• Walk to boulevard 6:00 pumpboat already left
• Walked around and found internet cafe
• 9:00 walked back to boulevard
• Waited for arjee boat to leave at 10:45am
• Ride ferry to dapa port, siargao – p200
• 1:30 arrived in dapa
• lunch at carinderia – p60
• Discovered it was brownout … It seems the whole of siargao suffered a power outage due to a damaged underwater power transmission cable from the mainland. The damage was brought about by a powerful lightning strike!
• Decided to go to socorro first instead of GL/cloud 9
• Waited for 4pm ferry trip to socorro
• Ride ferry to socorro – p100
• 5:30pm – arrived in socorro
• Asked around for directions to the training center
• Found it in front of the municipal hall… There were was manning the center and the doors were locked shut. Approached a lady employee waiting at the municipal hall. She helped me search for the people working at the training center to open the place for me. The training center people came. It was already dark by then. I told them i needed to eat dinner. They also needed to go so they locked up the place again and promised to return later. They did warn me that it might take a while. It was around 6:30pm
• I went around socorro town proper to look for a place to eat … The carinderias were already closed so I decided to buy some junk food and water.
• The moonlight was apt to go around town
• I sat at the shed beside the training center to wait and secluded myself in reading Ann Rice’s Vampire Novels.
• The townspeople were still awake. Some of them were scourging the coast for seafood … Probably octopuses and whatnot
• 9:30pm, still nobody came. I decided to go to balanghai hotel in hopes of staying there instead but there was nobody “home”
• I returned again to the shed to find out a small group of townsfolk drinking tanduay.
• I met gerome barlongay, a boatman for nikka nikki. I told him i wanted to go to suhoton cave… He offered me, at first, a price of p3000. After more negotiations, he lowered it to p2000. I did not take his offer.
• The training center people came and told me it was just supposed to be p1,000 roundtrip
• Slept at the training center – p200

Day 10

• 7:00 got out of training center. Gerome and his buddy, brother of the owner of nikka nikki offtered me p1,500 for the trip. Nag ayo pa guid ako. Hatag nila p1,200… Nag agree nlng ko
• 7:30 left for suhoton
• 8:30 arrived in sohoton
• Met the tourism officer there. Sohoton tour cost – p1,050. Pero hatag nya nlng sa akon p850.
• No more jellyfish
• Also visited crystal cave, buletas cave, and tiktikan lake
• 11:00 left for socorro
• Area between club tara and suhoton entrace had great snorkeling coral garden. There was a sort of sandbar there so the boat had to slow down
• 12:00 arrived in socorro
• Rushed to get and prepare my bag for the 1:00pm trip to dapa
• 12:30 arrived at the pier
• Lunch at kitchenette (3pcs octopus’ legs – p30, 2 rice, sprite) – p70
• 1:00 ride ferry to dapa – p100
• 2:30 arrived in dapa
• Ride habal-habal to cloud 9 – p150. Driver = caesar … Offered me p500 to take me to cloud 9 and magpupungku
• Still brown out in the whole of siargao
• cheapest rate i got was p1,000 at the resort right side facing cloud 9. Cabana style, 2 floors
• Everywhere else was fully booked
• Decided to check in at jungle reef p1,500 aircon room… Nag ayu ko nga p1,200 nlng
• Dashed to cloud 9
• P500 rate for surfing instructor + board
• Dinner at carinderia infront of cloud 9 along the road – 2 rice, can of sardines, warm sprite – p95
• Walked to jungle reef
• Tried to use aircon but it wouldn’t turn on. I was informed that the generator cannot handle the load they lowered the price to p900. I told them to lower the price still. They gave it to me for p800.

Day 11

• Woke up at 9:00. I was planning to leave cloud 9 at 10:30 so i can catch the 12:00 roro to surigao
• Made a quick photo op at cloud 9
• Got p405 change for p95 dinner at carinderia yesterday … I gave them p500 yesterday because they did not have change
• Paid utang of p40 for marlboro reds at store beside the gym
• went back to jungle reef at 10:15
• Paid p800 for the 1st night
• As i was packing i felt the strong urge  to stay, that i was not ready to leave so i decided to stay for 1 more night.
• Ride habal-habal to gl – p50
• Lunch at Maribelle’s ate saang (not sure) but it was like adobo na shell meat (40) + 2 rice + cole – p78
• Went aroud gl and then visited the tourism office
• Bought can of tuna and 1.5l h20 – p50
• Ride habal2 back to jungle reef
• Walked to cloud 9
• Walked back to jungle reef because my camera ran out of power and forgot to charge it.
• Walked back to cloud 9
• Ate dinner at carineria … Bought 2  rice, sprite, an had the tuna opened – p50 (omg p12 for opening the tuna)
• Walked back to jungle reef – paid the p800 for the 2nd night.

Day 12

• Siargao to Surigao City
• Surigao City to Cebu
• Cebu Day-tour

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Day 3

• Check-out
• Walk to highway
• Breakfast at Jollibee (cor. Jose C. Aquino Ave – Montillo Boulevard) – P140
• Ride tricycle to Butuan Bus/Van Terminal – P10
• 6:00am – Ride “Cagayan de Oro” bound bus to Balingo-an, Misamis Oriental (2 hours and 45 minutes). Drop off at highway intersection going to Balingo-an pier. Walk to Balingo-an Pier (100m approx.).
• 8:45am – Arrived at Balingoan Pier. Inquire about ferry crossing to Camiguin
• Wait till 9:45am trip of “MV Yuhum” RORO (slow) ferry
• Breakfast at the pier carinderia stalls –  Squid adobo, rice, virgin cola (p40)
• 10:00am – Ride RORO ferry to Benoni Port, Mahinog, Camiguin (1 hour) – P135 fare + P2.25 terminal fee
• 11:00an – Arrival at Benoni Port
• Ride jeep to Mambajao (30 minutes) – P20 fare
• 11:30am – Arrival in Mambajao. Dropped off at the bend past Balbagon Pier. Walked back to Brgy. Hall to ask for directions going to Enigmata . Should have told the driver to drop me off near Enigmata.
• Ride motorella (modified tricycle) to the intersection going to Enigmata - p20
• Walk to Enigmata (5 minutes)
• Check-in at Enigmata Treehouse Ecolodge - P250 per night. 1 night downpayment.
• 1:00pm – Walk to highway
• Ride motorella to Camiguin Provincial Capitol intersection – p7 fare
• Walk to Camiguin Provincial Capitol (5 minutes)
• Visit the provincial tourism office. Get brochure and map.
• 1:40pm – Ride motorella to Mambajao Public Market – p7
• Ride habal-habal to Katibawasan Falls – P60 (round trip)

• Offered driver to take me to ardent, Walkway to Old Volcano, Sunken Cemetery, and Guiob Church Ruins for a half-day tour - p350 including the visit to Katibawasan Falls (chartered )