Early start once again as our taxi to the airport was due to arrive at 7.30am. Check in at the airport actually went smooth for once no rushing or running through airports this time!
We decided rather than eating in Cebu we would wait and get something in Manilla as we had a few hours to kill before the flight to Borneo.
Flight was fine only took an hour or so plus we weren’t sitting together so I could play football manager and not have Becky’s head falling against me sleeping! 😁
Once we checked in it was time for some lunch. There was a massive food court with lots of options but as we had pizza twice in Philippines we decided to go for a place called ArmyNavy which had some burritos and quesidilla. Becky gone for the vegetable burrito and I, sticking with me being veggie out here went with the chorizo.(couldn’t help myself I’ve been craving chorizo for weeks!)
With time on our hands we walked round the airport deciding to go through security early get a seat and have a snooze. As we were going through security there was a woman with a sash on…Becky was intrigued as why would a woman travelling be wearing a sash? Turns out it was Miss Sweden……why would you wear a sash when travelling? Talk about attention seeking! She wasn’t even that good looking! All of the locals were asking her for photos😂
We found our gate and Becky was off to sleep while I sat and watched the basketball on the TV.
The flight wasn’t too bad either (we were sat separately again) until one of the stewardess comes over the tannoy to announce that someone has lost something and could they come and collect it. It was a well designed plan to get the kid to the front of the plane and announce that it was his birthday and everyone was to sing happy birthday. In typical fashion the Asians loving there karaoke went for it! The kid got a present and a gift from the airline, just when we thought it was over and then the stewardess says she would give us one more tune, and breaks into the leaving on a jet plane song!!!! I was trying not to laugh and it had woke Becky up so she was a little confused to the situation but tried to record it on video.
Our next objective was to get some cash and find out way to the hostel. Decided on using the grab app (basically Uber) just so we could get to the hostel and maybe see a bit of the city as we were leaving early the next day.
Hostel was basic. Private room with a shared bathroom, it will do for the night just a bed to sleep on I suppose.
Walking along the waterfront at night was nice we came across a night market which was full of stalls with fruit and more so fish. Any type of fish you could think of and they were selling it. The Tunas were massive! Becky was a little unease as the crabs were still alive but tied up only to be thrown on the BBQ to be cooked. We never ate at the market as Becky didn’t want to encourage the treatment of these animals and I didn’t want food poisoning before a 6 hour bus journey tomorrow!
As we kept walking a Japanese restaurant was an option, neither of us had ever had Japanese food before so in we went! The menu was full of meat options but since we were both veggie 😉 they would substitute the meat for vegetables. The meal was really good, both gone for the curry which came in a hot plate.
After dinner we decided it was best to head back up to the hostel and organise tomorrow trip plus have a look at some day trips we might end up doing in sepilok or Sandakan.
South East Asia 2019 