Good morning adventurers
Good morning
[Tuk Tuk honk]
(laughs)
We're doing a little Tuk Tuk road trip today you guys we've been just staying in the town of General Luna
Which is kind in the southeast part of Siargao, but we have so much more of the islandto see
We're gonna just try to kind of go slow and take our time and see what we can see
There's some really beautiful
spots on this island that we're hoping to get to but let's say we just want to see what's out here
So far even just outside of General Luna it's super beautiful. There are palm tree groves everywhere and rice field
Little pigs and cows and everything.
Oh, yeah so many animals
Sorry, gotta pass somebody real quick
I'm getting the hang of this thing.
Yeah, he's a freaking champion
It was kind of difficult at first
But I feel like I'm getting it so we have about an hour or more to get to our destination
But we're probably gonna take a little bit longer just so we can go slow take our time. See the sights like Alison said, yeah
I guess that's it!
Intro over!
We're in a bit of a traffic jam right now, they're trying to pave some of this road over here
You can see on the right but on the left it is nice and sloppy still
Some of this mud is really deep
This is why you get a Tuk Tuk because all these motorcycle drivers are getting covered in mud right now
Oh, yeah, that's a lot nicer
We're just stopping to get gas in there are no gas stations up in this part of the island
So this is what you do you get a person that has a bunch of coke bottles full of gasoline and then you buy them
By the liter they dump them in right there. And then you're back on the road. Usually about sixty pesos per liter
To give you guys an idea of what the roads are like on the island. Mostly they've all been paved actually pretty nice
Not too many potholes kind of surprised.
Yeah, and I think there are widening the roads maybe across the entire island
So there is a bit of construction
we got caught up in that little roadblock for about five minutes that's been in but otherwise
We're kind of have the roads to ourselves once you get out of the cities
There are a few dirt roads and stuff, but it seems that all the main roads are paved
So if you kind of go off of that you might find a dirt road or two those can be a little tougher to negotiate
But so far this has been some pretty easy driving.
Yeah not so bad
Not very hilly so our little Tuk Tuk's doing okay
So we started in General Luna on the southeastern part of the island
We're driving up to a town called San Isidro, which takes you along the eastern coast of the island
Tomorrow we're wanting to go visit some island center in the northwestern part of the island.
Yes one thing to note though there is no cell signal once you pretty much leave General Luna
So we are supposed to be staying in San Isidro
That might change. Tal has... we've gotten a message here and there saying that there might be an issue at the AirBnB
We can't really figure it out. So we'll just see what happens once we get up there
Yeah, I think they ended up over booking the room or something like that. We're still trying to figure it out
I don't know.
Hopefully we'll get a little pocket of cell signal up here somewhere
Stay tuned
We'll report back in an hour.
We've made it to our first spot
there's this overlook over all these palm trees and
They're just as far as the eye can see if you're driving on the road. You can't miss it
You take this sharp turn and it's up on this kind of cliffside
You just see the palm trees as far as you can.
We were greeted by this guy over here. What's your name?
Kenneth.
[Allison]: Kenneth?
Yeah.
If you come here he sells bamboo straws they're very premium quality
Straw for like souvenir because the plastic's not allowed.
This one is good for like, 'regalo' (gift)
This one is (for) soft drinks, shake, milk tea, bubble tea very nice right here
Very nice.
All our favorite things.
Sounds like these when I'm so glad we're in a Tuk Tuk because it's raining outside
We just pulled over to get some photos and all of a sudden it started raining and we're good
Yeah, we're nice and cozy in here
It's a little breezy and cool enough and the sun's good. Too bad for everyone in the scooters
They're all driving by like trying to shield their eyes and drive.
Yeah, but the weather is like this in the Philippines
It'll be - it was a bright sunny day
Crazy hot and then all of a sudden within five minutes span now it's pouring down rain like this. It's all dreary out
It's a lot cooler. It is kinda nice
It is really nice but you can see blue skies still on the other side
So I think we just have a few more minutes.
Yeah, it'll go away just as quick as it comes on
It's not just a quick passing by storm anymore, it's coming down
I don't even know where it came from. I swear, it was one little baby storm cloud with blue skies a ll around
Must have multiplied in the air
But I think we're gonna try to get going and
Drive through I mean luckily we have these little flaps that will shield us from some of the rain
All right
Just velcro them real quick, really sturdy-like
Our flaps came undone. Okay, I think we're back in business. Okay, here we go
You just drove through some little town and realize we haven't quite had breakfast yet
So we thought we would stop. This is on the side of the road - J-Kat. It seemed to get decent reviews
It was at least on the map so let's go try it out!
Breakfast has arrived. And I think I'm the clear winner here
I went with the pork sisig which is like really minced up pork bits onions peppers
There's an egg in there and it comes on this really hot plate. So it gets nice and crispy
You'll see this dish pretty much everywhere
Eric's kept pretty traditional I'd say
Yeah I kept it nice and simple got an egg bacon rice.
Yup. It's gonna be so hot
It's pretty good the onions and the pepper on there gives it a little crunch and it has I think calamansi juice on there
So it's a little sour
Definitely very fatty from that pork pretty yummy and if you got some rice it'd be
Super duper filling
We're just gonna share this rice. Yeah
We were just taking our time on this road trip because we talked about the Airbnb
Earlier, and we're not sure if that's gonna fall through or not
so
technically
We don't really have a place to stay and we're trying to decide if we need to book another one because they overbooked that other place
Yeah, and they told us at the last minute so we may end up having to head up to the town of Burgos
Just because they have a lot more Airbnb selection up there
So we just stopped at this beach called Magpopongko because it's known for these
Incredible rock pools that form when the tide is low, but they just have this crystal-clear blue water and they're super beautiful
But it's closed.
Yeah it's closed. A lot of things on the island...
A lot of things are closed to February 10
This particular site is closed till February 19th
So we might try to sneak down after I don't know our little pit stop
But we definitely can't take the tuk-tuk down to the ocean. It was kind of a bummer
We've arrived to the town of Burgos.
They're throwing a party for us.
I don't know what's going on over there. But I guess the bumping music go on people are screaming
We've actually checked into our homestay already and the town is super cool. It's just really low-key very local
It has a lot of street art.
Yeah, it's really cool, but it's got a really nice chill vibe
I mean the ocean is literally one street that way
yeah, I mean general Luna is laid-back
But this is even more laid-back than that for sure.
Definitely smaller a lot less, I think delicious food options and stuff like that
But it's still very cool
Speaking of delicious food options, since we have our Tuk Tuk
We started just looking up places that were all around trying to find something good to eat for dinner
We found a place called Jungle and it is in the jungle. So we'll see if it's good or not
I think we're gonna head there now.
Apparently the Jungle cafe is down this road
it's a little rough, but
Our trusty vehicle can handle it I think
Shoes off as usual
I feel like that usually means it's a cool place.
[Eric]: Yeah.
Our late lunch slash second breakfast has officially arrived.
We got - Oh, wait you just told me what it was
[Eric]: Scramble in the jungle.
Scramble in the jungle.
I don't know if that's a play on the Guns & Roses song
Scramble in the jungle (laughs)
It's scrambled eggs
Mine has tomatoes and onions and it's in all of these amazing spices, got some bread around here looks very fresh
Smells amazing
[Eric]: I wish you guys can smell it. It smells so good
These are curried tomatoes and it just smells like curry
But y'all this place. How amazing is this?
So they've got two levels are up on the top
Super breezy as you can see, it's nice and cool up here. The ocean is over there. There's palm trees all around us
There's some little animals out there. Do not let that road coming up here scare you.
There are a lot of signs so you won't miss it
But you might think twice when you start going up, but don't, just keep going. It's gonna be great.
[Eric]: It's part of the fun.
So we got our curried tomatoes. They're on top of some eggs
I've got some herbs and
Spices and all kinds of goodies mixed up in here feel like I need to get a little bit of the sauce
No clue what it is
Definitely like a mayonnaise-based sauce, but so much flavor and the tomatoes.
Yeah that curry flavor is bomb she's got a lot of little spices and stuff in it
They also have pretty good coffee here, which we've also are already drinking.
We actually tried to go to a local spot in town and they were out of coffee. No coffee
[Eric]: That's a big reason why we came here. Yeah, we scored. This place is awesome.
It's amazing
Yeah, we couldn't have literally asked for anything better than this
So after this, unfortunately, we have some work to do so we'll probably go back to our home stay tonight
But tomorrow we will be going out on an adventure
we will do some more island hopping but it should be very
Different than what we did down south out of General Luna we'll be going out of San Benito to some lesser known islands
We actually tried to ask locals about them. They didn't even know. We're not really sure
[Eric]: It's a little like secret island hopping or something.
Really cool, Tal helped us get it all set up. He's been up here with some friends
So we'll meet up with him later and well that's it
[Eric]: That's all. That's it.
Goodbye adventurers.
We'll see you on the road.