Puzzling day and night life with street bars still going full speed at 4 in the morning.
After a brief investigation of the old city Intramuros, Chinatown and evening streets the time was to move towards the volcanoes.
First stop in Cagayan De Oro on Mindanao Island with a purpose to get boat trip to tiny volcano island Camiguin.
Old streets of Manila
Intramuros, the old part of Manila. Manila's unique architecture influenced by early settlers and traders from different corners of the world got a heavy hit during WWII bombings.
In the jungle paradise, the Cagayan De Oro Airport on Mindano Island. Planes lining up in front of the building, so that people can wonder relaxedly to the terminal, which had a baggage conveyor (on the picture) and then already at the other side into the jungle. Not the place for aircons, long walkways and duty free shops.
The Volcano island Camiguin. Somewhere in the clouds the great Hibok-Hibok volcano itself. It didn't reveal itself during the week.
Camiguin is a small island between Mindanao and Bohol islands. To get a circle around the island is about 60km, just suitable for a motorbike trip. Or to be honest full day goes for 35 kilometres and the last 25 will go in dark looking the ray made by the front light. On the way: small fishing villages, a cemetery that sunk into the sea after one of the volcano eruptions, fishermen, hot springs, cold springs, rooster fights if travelling on Sunday... and of course many happy people who all want to say Hello.
Fix the Fixers! All Fixers watch out in Camiguin! Mambajao, the capital of Camiguin.
At the rooster fight. Fighter and its owner, The Sunday rooster fighting.
Getting the cutting blade
The Rooster Fight arena, bets are made, loud shouting...
The fight, inside the cage fighters and a referee, The owners are locked into small cages. The fight itself is rather short, in first rounds roosters jump together and after some jumping fall down from exhaustion. Then referee has to pick both up, get roosters' peaks together and drop them on the ground, this gets roosters active and they jump one or two times and fall down again. Later on referee has to put them together by peaks after every attack jump.
Some fights were quicker, in one fight one of the roosters managed to cut with the blade other rooster's wing and this finished the fight in few seconds.
This rooster didn't win.
As Camiguin island is volcanic island all its beaches are coverd with black sand, with one exception of a small strech of white sand in south corner of the island.
If wanting to get this good experience of blue water and white sand have to take a boat to a small sand bar called White Island, some 10 minutes by a boat.
On the island there is an administrative building (left side on the photo) collecting visiting fee. And then it is possible to walk around, go swimming-snorkelling or watch the mysterious dark Camiguin island with its Hibok-Hibok volcano in clouds.
Leaving the island. The guest house garden had turned into a pool due to monsoon rains. Hopes are high.
Not leaving the island. The monsoon had stopped all boat traffic, only navigation was happening on the streets of island's main town Mambajao. Though still with wheeled vehicles. Locals were mentioning about a typhoon hitting the island in upcoming days.
Three-wheeler cutting the waves.
Floods
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