RORO

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Breakfast as usual but then we said goodbye to our homestay. Soon the wooden room we stayed in will be demolished and replaced with concrete.

Across the road we caught a jeepney. 50 pesos each to Siquijor town. We were dropped at the ferry port but couldn't buy tickets as we were too early. You can only buy tickets 2 hours before. We had arrived early so we could spend time in the little Siquijor town.

The sun was out and it was hot. We took advantage of the air conditioning in Jolibee and would have had an ice cream if they had any.

We moved on to Julie's bakery and ate donuts washed down with coffee.

The market was full of small shops selling the usual Philippine merchandise. We had lunch at a large local restaurant with lots of choice. It was also very busy.

When we went to buy our ferry to let's we noticed a different boat leaving half an hour early. It was the RORO car ferry and cheaper!

The journey was over calm blue water with the odd floating mass of seaweed and plastic. A great journey with lots of flying fish but no dolphins on this journey.

At Dumagette port we were met by our host and driven to our new home in Dauin for Christmas.

We ate a delicious curry and chatted about our world experiences until 2am. We were told some amazing stories and shown some amazing gifts offered from around the world - A special death mask and a native American tomahawk. We also saw photos of the most gigantic wave that was 200ft tall swallowing a navy ship in the Bay of Biscay.

We saw some impressive lava footage from Hawaii and a beautiful house. We were even given a special recipe book signed by the author!


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