Tefas - Camiguin Island ~Philippines

Camiguin Island ~Philippines

If it costs you 3 USD to rent a motorbike for 24 hours would you be able to resist? No. Didn't think so, and we couldn't either. We had our 0.5 USD breakfast before we put on our construction workers-helmets and accelerated down the lonely roads of Camiguin island.

Every once in a while we had to stop and just look around. The views were amazing and really breathtaking. We tore along the roads with he crystal clear sea water on our right side and to the left the huge mountain range stretched out with it's over whelming volcanoes.

We arrived to one of the very few tourist attractions in Camiguin which is called Sunken cemetary. During the time when the spanish colonies dominated the Philippines they created a cemetery here in Camiguin. But when the volcanoe Mt. Vulcan Daan (the light green mountain on our right side) erupted in the 1870's the cemetery got destroyed and sank. The tourist attraction today includes going in a small boat to the big cross (which isn't even the original cross since even this got destroyed) where we are taking this photo. During this boat ride you can see crosses laying on the bottom.

Our "guide" or captain or whatever wanted to show us his new photo tricks so we did "the giant and the dwarfs" with him. Successful huh?

Ride went on until we got boiling hot under the strong filipino sun and had to stop at the Sto. Niño cold springs.

Here we found a water temprature similar to the Swedish sea temprature (during summer of course) which was really cold but also really nice. For 5.5 USD we got in and could stay for as long as we wanted to. But cold water, hungry tummies, chickens eating our snacks and Mollie being Barbie'fied made us want to go after only an hour, and so we did.

Motorbiking around the island offer so much more than the few stops we did. You can also go to the waterfalls and get a closer look of the volcanoes but you have to get in without the motorbikes and hike for a bit, and.. we just didn't do that. Anyway, from the cold springs back to our rocky mountain village where our homestay is we just tried to find an eatery to have lunch but we ended up driving the whole way back to our homestay and go for lunch at the normal place, where we always eat the same thing. It's actually kind of boring after 3 days eating the same thing every meal, but if it costs 0.5 USD, what can you do? (And seriously, the mangoshakes here are a joke. So good I never stop think about them... ).