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T&J Travels #6: Cebu 2016 (Part 5)

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Ever since I lived near my work, I have, for the past years haven't stood in a bus for 3 hours straight. Not only were our legs exerted enough effort already earlier at the hike, but we have to endure the ride back standing! We should have gotten that open air one that came before :-( Other than the unfortunate, we were able to purchase a few delicacies that we came there for other than the peak. We tried the tostado (flower shaped biscuits), torta (mamon-like but with a smokey flavor), chicharon (so many of them around Carcar I think) and the banana meat (meat with giniling filling). + Tabo-an Market + After getting off South bus terminal, we thought of looking for the market. This was not a part of the plan for tonight but thought that to make another stop here the next day would be harder to squeeze in. Since I haven't researched from here I have no idea where Tabo-an is. We got two things that time: 1. The only taxi driver we got refused to take us there since we're al...

T&J Travels #6: Cebu 2016 (Part 4)

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Most of my friends who've been to Cebu were all about Oslob and whale watching. Me, being the boring landlubber I am would not hear the end of it so in my own way found ourselves an activity le boyfriend could not resist. Our first "hike". I also find it charming that none of my officemates (who are much more travelled than I am) haven't been, not as much as heard of the place. I love it already. + Osmena's Peak + The peak is situated in Dalaguete, a province 3 hours away from the city. Luckily most of the blogs I read about it speaks of only one bus to take and 2 max rides of habal-habal (motorcycle) depending on your preference. But in one of my research I found another way which would involve a convenient option. And because of that we ended up going around in circles for a good enough time before we managed to get it right. As we were on the trail that day Reagan and I were fooling around on this idea and here I am writing about it:  The Ultimate Time Consumi...