Dumaguete, Aug 2014

After our Siquijor getaway, we transferred to Dumaguete and stayed for 2 days and checked in at Honeycomb Tourist Inn, which I highly recommend coz of its great location!

Got the double room with twin beds P1000/night

...which comes with a complimentary breakfast!

Tocino meal

Boneless Bangus meal

Since we already went here last year, we didn't do much sight-seeing anymore.

Just some food trip! hehe

A must-try hole in the wall resto, Cafe Antonio.

What I love most is their outdoor seating area <3

Got their watermelon juice and some shake, sorry forgot what it was!lol

#yumz

Seafood Kebab

This was really yummy!

Grilled Tuna

Unfortunately, the fish was dry =/

Next stop is at my favorite, Sans Rival Cakes & Pastries <3

This store is one of my ultimate favorite resto in Dumaguete.

If you ask me, it's a bit similar to Conti's, serving hot meals + cakes and pastries for a reasonable price!

This time I tried their White Chocolate Lava Cake

and OMG, it's soooo sinful.

Cake was really moist and the lava had just the right amount of sweetness. Perfect!

Of course, had to get their famous Sylvannas.

I prefer the chocolate version.

Roast Pork with Gravy

-the pork was tender but the sauce was a bit sweet for my taste

Salpicao

-tender and flavorful

Date and Walnut Dacquoise

-new found discovery! not too sweet and had enough servings of walnut yum!

"completing" my trip by eating at the popular street food at Rizal boulevard

..and had this amazing view while eating my fishballs and tempura(kikiam) lol

YES I DO!!

can't wait to go back <3

Manjuyod Sandbar

Last entry for my Dumaguete/Siquijor travel series :(

But don't worry, I really saved the best for last! ;)

One place you definitely shouldn't miss is Manjuyod Sandbar.

It's a 1 hour+ drive from Dumaguete city proper so I suggest you leave early so you could catch the sandbar in its low tide condition.

We left Dumaguete around 6am ~the drive was good, no traffic so we still had time to eat breakfast at the market before heading to Bais, where the port to the sandbar is located.

We got lost actually, we thought we needed to head first to the tourism office of Bais but you don't need to do that anymore! Just go straight to the port! haha

We contracted a boatman and paid P1,500 going to the sandbar.

Travel time was around 40 minutes.

The early bird really gets the early worm! lol

I think we arrived at the sandbar around 9am already.

Water was rushing in fast so I took tons of pictures while you could still see the sand.

Before (low tide)

after 5 minutes

after 10 minutes

completely submerged after 15 minutes O_O

It's not too deep by the way ;)

There's a lot of starfish too :))

basking in paradise! <3

After 2 hours of swimming and taking pictures. It's time to head back but we saw this and decided to have a quick stop to take pictures bwahaha

FYI, Manjuyod is a 7km stretch of sandbar so not everything sinks completely when it's high tide.

So nice! looks like they're stranded haha

Super beautiful <3

Pristine clear waters...

Paradise!

The boatman harvested some oysters while waiting for us

Fresh! yum yum <3

Apo Reef

While in Dumaguete, visit Apo Island!

aka the Crocodile-shaped island

Clear waters upon arriving

ready in my snorkelling gear lulz

Apo reef

Hello there Mr. Turtle!

Took a ton of pics of this lovely creature <3

But this one is my fave <3

Then the clownfishies

They're so shy haha

aside from the clownfish, these are the only fish I saw while snorkelling lol

our guide said the reef got damaged from the storm they experienced in 2012 :(