Being in Donsol, we had actually two options how to move south. First to continue on land on Luzon and then by ferry to Leyte island and so on, or ferry from Pilar (10 km from Donsol) to Masbate island and then to Cebu. So we have chosen the second option with hope that Masbate could offer nice places to stay…
After 3 hours ride on ferry we arrived to Masbate City, where we could guess from the first moment that this would not be as easy as we wanted… It should actually be called Masbate village 😀 Finding available good hotel to spend a night was quite difficult task so we ended up in really basic room with almost a hole instead of the toilet 😀
So after discovering that whole Masbate island is very rural area, we decided to carry on to get to Cebu island. That was quite tricky, cause the ferry (the only ferry per day) was leaving at noon from Cataigan, which is about 70 km far from Masbate City. Do not forget to reserve 2 hours for 70 km ride in Philippines 😉 Luckily we made it on time and catched a ferry to Bogo, north of Cebu…
Although we planned to stay over the night in Bogo, cause the ferry went over 5 hours, our plan changed very quickly. We asked one guy with the lorry to take us from the port to Bogo, but then he told us he was going to Cebu City and offered us ride there… So eventually, we hitchhiked in Philippines 😀 After 100 km and 3 hours ride we came to Cebu, exhasted but happy that we moved that far…
Jak se dostat dal na jih z Donsolu? Meli jsme dve moznosti… Bud pokracovat po zemi po Luzonu a pak lodi na ostrov Leyte a tak dale, nebo lodi z Pilaru (10 km od Donsolu) na ostrov Masbate a z neho dalsi lodi na Cebu. Zkusili jsme tedy druhou variantu s nadeji, ze Masbate nabidne nejaka pekna mista k pobytu…
Po 3 hodinach jizdy na lodi jsme dorazili do Masbate City, kde hned od prvniho momentu mohl clovek vytusit, ze to nebude tak jednoduche, jak bychom chteli… Meli by toto mesto spis nazyvat Masbate vesnickou 😀 Najit slusny a dostupny hotel na prespani se ukazalo jako celkem narocny ukol, takze jsme zakotvili ve velmi jednoduche mistnosti, kde v koupelne byla skoro dira v zemi misto zachodu 😀
Takze po zjisteni, ze cely ostrov Masbate je hodne venkovsky, rozhodli jsme se pokracovat dal a dojet na Cebu. V tom byl ale trochu hacek, jelikoz jedina lod za den odjizdela presne v poledne z Cataiganu, 70 km od Masbate City. A nezapomente si rezervovat alespon dve hodiny na jizdu 70 km na Filipinach 😀 Nastesti jsme to ale stihli vcas a vyjeli smer Bogo, severni cip Cebu…
Prestoze jsme planovali zustat pres noc v Bogo, jelikoz jizda na lodi trvala pres 5 hodin, nas plan se zahy rychle zmenil. Zeptali jsme se jednoho chlapika v nakladaku, jestli by nas nemohl hodit z pristavu do Boga, pak nam ale rekl, ze jede do Cebu City a nabidl nam odvoz az tam. Tak jsme nakonec jeli stopem na Filipinach 🙂 Po 3 hodinach a 100 km jsme konecne dorazili do Cebu, vycerpani, ale stastni, ze jsme se dostali tak daleko…
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