Arriving to Philippines and Moalboal
So, my dear friends. After a flight on 18 hours and a taxi ride that lasted for two hours we finally arrived to Manila, the capital of the Philippines. For those that don't know, the Philippines contains more than 7 000 islands, so as you might understand we felt some kind of rush to leave the city and get in to the island life.
We were both so happy for arriving but didn't really know that Cebu is not just a small island with one dreamy destination, no, Cebu is a town and the island is really big. So after that night in Manila, a two hour (delayed) flight and a 5 hour long taxi/transfer ride we finally got to Moalboal, a small small town on the peninsula of Cebu. A lot of people go to this beach town to explore the dive sites, do canyoning in the big Kawasan waterfalls, and just spend time on the beach. Hey ho let's go, Mollie and I said and started our Moalboal experience right away. No time to lose, right?
In Moalboal we stayed in Huts in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by chatty hens, non stop barking dogs, djungle and a neighbor with the biggest party vibe we fell asleep (at least we tried to) on the floor for three nights.
During these days in Moalboal we tried to experience the most famous and nice activities the area had to offer, so, håll i hatten, as we say in swedish. 
Ok, to make this easier and kind of logic for you I'll be a nice girl and start telling you about our first day after our 30 hours of traveling. Then we went with a habahaba (sorry mother) which is a motorcycle, and actually the most common and cheapest way to get around here in Philippines. We went to White beach which is, just as you might see, a white beach. Actually it wasn't anything absolutely special about this beach except for the fact that it's WHITE (!!!) and the water is clear blue and we only were ten people at this big beach in total.
Mollie read, slept and relaxed and did what you should do on a beach. I got restless after two minutes, went for explorations, played in the waves and watching all the cute filipino babies telling me to bring them to Sweden in our secret language. 
The habahaba girl (yes, I should know her name after loving her so much) came back and brought us to Panagsama beach. A very small and not too beautiful beach but an area that is crowded of bars, restaurants and dive shops. Here we rented snorkel equipment and went into the sea with no expectations. Our habahaba driver was the best and she almost didn't neglect us when we invited her to stay with us forever.
Directly we found this famous, big shoal of sardines that Moalboal is really famous for having. The fishes were so many we couldn't differ the shoal from seagrass. 
Soon after this I see some swordfishes and I have never swum that fast in my whole life (since my first reaction was that they were white sharks, hehe…) So I went away, and when I tried to find them again Mollie interrupted me screaming "LOOK!".
All of a sudden this big friend was swimming with us and getting our attention for at least 30 minutes. I would never have thought that you can experience something like this without diving.
Moalboal is a bit touristy but actually I didn't feel it. Staying in the forrest and doing activities all days makes you disconnect from the other tourists and only connect with nature and the local people. Of course you meet tourists doing your tours, but you're still not surrounded by them 24 hours a day.
So my dear ones, this was our first, really amazing day. Stay tuned and I'll tell you about our next.
Ida