Travel: November 2013

June 28, 2013

Budget : Php 1500 per pax

Itinerary:

04:00am - 04:30am Meet-up at Butuan Bus Terminal.
05:00am - 09:00am Butuan City to Mangagoy (Bachelor Express Non-AC)
09:00am - 09:30am Negotiate with Skylab drivers while sipping coke at a sari2x store
09:30am - 10:00am Skylab ride from highway to Tinuy-an Falls
10:00am - 12:00nn Rest, brunch, bathe and picture taking
12:30pm - 02:00pm Skylab ride from Tinuy-an falls to Enchanted River.
02:00pm - 03:30pm Boat ride to fish pens
03:30pm - 04:30pm Back to enchanted river for a dip
04:30pm - 05:00pm Drive back to highway (skylab)
05:00pm - 09:00pm Drive back to Butuan (van)

Expenses:
Php 240 - Bus fare from Butuan City to Mangagoy
Php 500 - Skylab (Php 1000 for 2pax)
Php 50 - Tinuy-an Falls Entrance fee
Php 200 - Tinuy-an guides (bamboo raft guys)

Php 30 - Enchanted river Entrance fee for adults. (5pesos for kids)
Php 15 - Life jacket rental for 1hr
Php 160 - Boat ride to fish pens (max of 4pax)
Php 190 - Van fare from Enchanted river crossing to Butuan City

PHOTOS

The Bachelor Express. From Butuan, the bus with AC is only available for the first trip O_o weird... But look, we occupied two seats each :D

And this is where the bus dropped us. We took a break at sari2x store behind us (more like giving break to our sore asses), chatted with the store owner while sipping ice cold coke. She told us the normal price of the motorcycle and that helped a lot coz a guy offered to take us with a doubled price!

The exhilirating skylab ride :)) This is an uphill climb and the motorcycle's engine can't carry our weight :| and right before we reached the peak, it staggered and died! Thank God for those planks on the sides, we still have my logs :P Charlou (the driver) had to go down the hill again while we waited on the peak for about 10mins! we were actually worried we might not come back hehehe

Tinuy-an Falls

Our humble lunch. Julie cooked the rice while i cooked the ulam :D all canned goods from my grandmother's sari2x store and my mother's dried fish. We shared this with Charlou and it may not look like it, but we had a feast :D

Enchanted River entrance fee: 30 pesos

Boat Ride - 600 for a max of 5 pax. We took Charlou with us coz its his first time here too. The boatman took us a fish pen <a complete waste of time coz there's nothing to see, the authorities ordered them to release the sea turtles> but I'm glad we did it coz it helped the boatman and his son. He offered to take us to nearby islands at no extra cost but we refused bcoz we don't have much time. He is so nice :)