So we're near Moalboal in Cebu Island, in the southwest part of the island.
And in this video, we're going to explore everything around here,
starting from the highest mountains to under the ocean.
Good afternoon, people.
I am in Moalboal right now, which is the small town on the southwest
side of the island of Cebu.
Actually, in this little village
that's quite close to the town, like three kilometers away,
this simple village is like one street going through the whole place, basically.
That is a coastal village that is famous for all these activities
that you can do in the ocean, including some of the best scuba
diving in the world, I want to say, and some fun snorkeling.
But there's also a lot more to do outside of the sea or the ocean in Moalboal
How’s it going?
I just ran into one of my friends who is snorkeling over here.
So one of the things that I did yesterday
was this like canyoneering trip to this place called Kawasan Falls.
It's just a bunch of waterfalls, a lot of really cool stuff you like wear
your helmets and your life vests and you just go through these caves.
You kind of go under rocks, over rocks, and then you do a bunch of cliff jumps,
like seven of them. And that was the most fun part.
And then I did the first few great.
There was like about a 21 feet or 7 m one, another one
that was like, I think seven or eight meters.
And then there was like the last one, which was like ten meters, like 33 feet.
And I tried to do something fancy with that.
And I messed up the landing and landed face first,
which is why my neck is really freaking out today,
not doing any extreme neck exercises any time soon.
And there's this one waterfall where you go behind it
and you like swim under and come out the other way.
No one told me you have to swim far enough to like clear the waterfalls
because I didn't do that and I got stuck under the waterfalls
and I would have definitely drowned if I wasn't wearing a life vest.
I was like, stuck there for like 10 seconds
with this very powerful force of water landing right on my head.
But I survived, so it's fine.
But be careful if you do that.
Today, I'm going to go on this hike that's supposed to be a really cool hike.
One of the best hikes from what I've heard in the Philippines.
And it's actually going to be my first hike of the year.
The last time I did a hike was in Albania, so I'm pretty excited.
So we take a scooter to get to this hike,
which is like one hour and 30 minutes away.
So we're just renting one right now
Hello
This is Michael. - Slowly turning
So hot.
Filled up on the gas, so we don't have to stop again later.
Oh this is cool
These’s some construction going on on this road, this stuff.
I think there was a landslide.
So the kids here who saw us going,
they like, literally offered to drive our scooter past the rubble.
It's really nice of them.
- What is your name? Nadir
What's your name?
Basically, this road turned into a dirt road.
I guess there's another good way to go there.
That's like a longer route.
There's no way we were going to get past this.
These two kids. They're like 18 and 14.
They're like tour guides.
They literally offered to drive our scooter.
And my friend
Michael got behind him on his scooter, and I swapped places with this friend
and I got on the back of his bike and I think we're past the roughest part.
On the way back,
we're definitely not coming back this way in the dark.
- Better road
Better road. Okay? -Yeah.
Hold me.
He's 14.
Saved our lives.
Thank you. - Oh,****. We would have turned back..
Yeah.
I mean I'm glad they did. -Yeah
- So glad they did
We're literally on a bridge that has collapsed sideways.
Look. This is a collapsed bridge.
Made it
It took a while, and this was a lot more complicated
than we expected, but we made it to the base of the Casino
Peak trail, which is that way past this shop owned by the family.
So we're going to get started because it's 5 p.m.
Sunset's at six, but it looks pretty cloudy.
I don't know if we can actually see the sun.
-Hello how are you? - Fine
- You’re a vlogger, sir? Yes
- Just write your page
So you can literally see the peak in front of us.
We're going for it before sunset, before it gets too dark
So I think we're more than halfway there, but it's starting to get more foggy.
The peak is covered by this fog right now.
Hopefully it clears up in a second when we’re there.
The trail is definitely getting steeper at
this part. This place looks a lot like this national park
I went to in Maui in Hawaii three years ago when I was living on Oahu.
So if you watched the video, probably seeing things that look very familiar,
also on an island in the Pacific.
Definitely becoming
a climb for the last part of the hike.
I might have to put my camera away for a second.
- Oh, **** This is the ridge trail.
- I think there's an easier way.
- Maybe I'm going back on that way instead of over the rocks. Yeah, it doesn't
look like the right way to do it.
- It's much safer.
Sad that we don't have much visibility, because we're like,
literally on top of the peak right now, almost.
Alright so we made it to the peak.
And usually you can see like hills back there that look like the chocolate hills
I’ll put a picture in the video, just to show you guys what it looks like.
But we really don't have much visibility.
We can barely see anything.
I can kind of see the road that we took to come up here
and a couple of houses and like the outline of a few mountains.
But that's it. Not our luckiest day.
I think we're seeing a little bit of the sun
and what looks like the reflection of it in the ocean.
So while we are complaining about the fog
and I was trying to fly my drone through it, everything just disappeared.
And we can literally see the ocean
and the sunset, kind of at least. We can see all the hills,
which is what I was trying to tell you about when there was a fog.
Well it took us a lot of patience, but we saw the sunset.
So now we're going to head down before it gets too dark
because we still have to drive
like 2 hours in the dark in the mountains to get back.
So there's this ridge trail here or like a ridge
that we were trying to hike across for better photos.
We both went up there and we're like: “Nope, we're not doing this.”.
Colors that we're seeing right now, it's just insane.
And we should actually head out this time
Sorry it’s entirely my fault. - No, no, no, no.
- I'm so happy we got to stay and see that
Good afternoon, people.
Today I’m gonna actually enter the ocean or the sea or whatever
this body of water is called, and I'm going to try some freediving
which I've never done before.
We're going to see if we can find some sardines.
And hopefully the visibility is good.
Apparently, it's best in the morning.
Like the early afternoon around 12.
It's like 4 p.m. right now.
But a typhoon is supposed to hit this island or the Philippines tonight.
I think the visibility might be even worse in like a few days.
This is Dexter, the best free diver in the Philippines. He can go to 100 meters. - No!
That's not too bad
So yesterday I had this major GoPro malfunction, and for some reason,
like this long video I took of the sardine run just didn't get recorded.
And all I have is that like,
that two second glimpse of the sardines.
And that's it.
But this is what it's supposed to look like.
And this video was taken by Roel, by the way, the guy who was in my Siargao
video, so check out his Instagram for like more cool photos and stuff.
He’s a cool videographer, too.
So it kind of sucks that I couldn't really show you guys the one thing that
Malboal is probably known for the most, which is the sardine run,
but that's how life works. That's how travel filming works.
And I got to head out soon to Siquijor.
and I've been in Moalboal for ten days now, which is longer than anyone,
any other guest I know, unless they're doing like some special diving course
that takes a while, people don't stay this long here.
It's a really chill town.
It's not as crazy as Siargao
and it's got some places with amazing internet,
which is why I was stuck for so long because it's very hard to find
good internet on some other islands
like Siargao that is going to be it for this video.
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I'll catch you guys in the next video from the next island, Siquijor.