Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Sipalay
Sugar Beach is 5 km north of Sipalay town. It is cornered between to hills on each side. There are about 4 low key resorts there. I choose the Driftwood Village because it had traditional huts and is the cheapest. It is also Swiss owned which normally is a downside, but the guy in charge was quite cool. Sadly I had some fever when I arrived and it took me 3 days to recover. Only to get an ugly cough just afterwards, which lasted for an unbelievable 10 days. After the Christmas seafood buffet diarrhea joined the cough. I didn't move more than 100m from the place, mostly just because I needed a long awaited rest. When I finally made a little hike to the next bay I bend my toe badly and was pretty much limited to my 100m. Nevertheless I got to know a lot of people at that place and had some nice hammock time. The girls in charge of running the place were a lot of fun and were always extremely good humored. Some tourists have been there for a long time and were pretty much into the beer all day. Of course there were also sex tourists which you can find anywhere in the Philippines. The food was good even though a bid expensive. Chess, Boccia and Black Gammon were the most sophisticated things I did during these days - and I read about 4 books. In the second half of my stay 25 German volunteers showed up, to spend there New Year holidays. Hm mm. Well I got a long with this vast group by avoiding them. Most of them were travelling the first time outside of Europe. For New Years Eve we lit 4 huge piles of dry palm leaves which burned 15 meters high. The next day I had to leave to rush up to Manila to catch my flight
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