I love my every visit to Surigao. It takes my breath away everytime. My first
suruy-suruy was at the heart of the city and then toured to Siargao, the surf capital. My second visit was just this month with family and friends. It took us almost 9 hours on the road, 1 pack of yema, some fruits, chocolates, 4 cd's and many good conversations with everyone on the ride. What I love about travelling is not mainly focused on the destination, I am inclined to treasure more the moments of getting there like the
usual
kumustahan,
kulitan and
kasaba. Anyway, we arrived at 10pm just in time for Kuya Pepo's birthday dinner at a simple beach.
Picture above is the cottage where we stayed for the night. Since we're a big family we had to make
sik-sikan in cottages 2 and 3. After lunch of the next day, we headed for Bucas Grande which will take a 20 min boat ride. Sailing was fun not to mention the wind and splashes of water on our faces!
Arriving the Hidden Island Resort put us all in awe. The resort was practically hidden because it is enclosed by land. The place was so calm and inviting.
The resort's really lovely. Their rooms are all names of marine organisms like Crab and Blue Marlin. They have fish aquariums too, just right at your doorstep. You can also go fishing and boating towards the far side of the resort and my favorite swimming in their unconventional waters, instead of sand they have stairs. lol. The waters actually deep already and clear. With googles on, I could see blue and red fishes.
The next day again all of us went
pambot riding to explore the islands more and did a short spelunking where we swam to enter the cave and exit in a small window of the the cave's wall and jumped in the water again to get to our boat. This part was really fun and challenging. I was amazed at my mom because, she took all the risks without screams of "AAAAAAAhhh's" unlike me.
It is obvious that I enjoyed this trip because it made it in my blog. I hope I can come back here someday with my friends at church. This trip made me see God differently. He's actually more wonderful, beautiful, creative and loving than what I thought He is. It also made me see and feel that God loves the Philippines very much. Thus, I am in love with God and my country more.
Goodbye Surigao =)
