| Phillipines Trip April 08 (caution: huge post)
 this is my guardian monkey. IVAN WICK!
 Ivan eating bbq pork Panagsama Beach
 Panagsama Beach, low tide
 My rooster with handler's son, being matched up for a cockfight (yes, i bought a rooster for 1500pesos)
 the place where everyone chooses their opponent
 my handler with my rooster, white shirt
 local counselor, helped me place bets
 the cockfighting ring, extremely loud place
 my champion!
 ... and his brother
 at handler's front yard, eating the loser for dinner. that's rice on a banana leaf, and defeated chicken in the bowl. the winning rooster's owner gets to eat the defeated one. I won 700 pesos from my rooster's victory, and another 600 from side bets! And my rooster was injured, but should recover soon, to fight again. Which means I still own a fighting cock, I don't know if that's illegal.
 kids excited to see foreigners
 Panagsama Beach, low tide, sunset
 horned beetle
 giant lobsters for sale
 stonefish, tilapia, mantis shrimp, lobster
 HUGE swimming crabs
 one had a claw on a claw, *perplexed marine biologist* maybe for opening bottles?
 Lar Shan, basically a huge smoky tent full of charcoal grills, and vendors screaming "BBQ, SIR! BBQ!!" at me.. the picture isn't nearly smoky enough to do the place justice. They have these spinning plastic bags on sticks attached to electric motors to keep flies away, not that a fly could really survive in all that smoke.
 Ivan with the grillmasters
 rice in a woven basket, called Posot? sp? means "heart"
 they give you plastic bags so your hands don't get dirty, i ate grilled chicken intestine, liver, and skin, squid, and this salted purple egg. felt fine after!
 Chocolate Hills, Bohol Island
 this place was infested with Koreans
 Mantis, at the butterfly sanctuary, Bohol Is.
  live caterpillars on display
 caterpillars that mimic bird poop as camouflage
 river boat cruise lunch, Loboc River, Bohol Is.
 Tarsiers, the worlds smallest primate?
 these are in captivity
 blacksmiths making knives out of car leaf-springs, i actually bought one for 100 pesos, about $2.50
 church built in 1700's. Bohol Is.
 Demonic stuffed Tarsiers, museum, Tagbilaran City, Bohol Is.
 Hermit crabs EVERYWHERE Cabilao Is. Bohol
 There's one every square meter.
 foot long GECKO on my Treehouse.
 Duck caught a blue frog and ate it, random
 Tree house Polaris Resort, Cabilao Island, Bohol
  Ivan stayed in URANUS!!! also a treehouse
 guy bailing water out of our boat... "it's all part of the show!" -me
 Ivan with Aussie friend
 Ivan walked into this spider's web
 Cabilao Island Dive boats, Bohol
 Polaris Resort, where we stayed Cabilao Is.
 Tricycles in Bohol all have inspirational statements.
 Moalboal reef
 Ivan getting open water license, instructor Dino
 Nemo and friends everywhere
 HUGE Sea turtle swam by me. I was thrashing about trying to find my camera which was attached to me with a string. The remoras are about 2 feet long.
 under an overhang
 Snorkeling, Moalboal, Cebu Is.
 Dive buddies!
 accidental shot by boatman, turned out perfect, that's me trying to grab the ladder
 Dino, our guide, and Ivan
Underwater camera died shortly after, and could not find suitable film anywhere anyway.
 Gearing up for night dive
 night dive group
 G.R. our fav grill man, with a girl with British accent, that's me in the background, that squiggly stuff is chicken intestine
 Savedra Dive Shop, Panagsama Beach, Moalboal, Cebu Is. Did most of my dives here, Ivan got certified here as well. Lots of old Germans diving everywhere... in speedos...
 Following Dino (our dive guide, and to local attractions) to get gas, on our way to the cockfight
 They have gas in Coke bottles, dollar per liter. No electricity that day, so no gas pumps were working.
 can't escape the GQ pose!
 so THIS is where rice comes from!
 that's how we roll
 Coconut grove, south of Moalboal
 Fish market Moalboal, Cebu Is.
 Food takes a long time...
 My favorite Japanese restaurant at Panagsama Beach, we ate there at least once a day.
 Ivan suggested we eat breakfast at this fly infested eatery. The flies were so thick, I stood outside waiting for my food. We survived.
 Dive boat, sunset, Panagsama Beach, Cebu Is.
 Kawasan Falls, ridiculous tourist trap! $8 just to sit at a table for 30 min.
 cool water
 hydroelectric plant
 way down from Kawasan falls, Cebu Is.
 We stopped here for lunch, very friendly family, we had pancit, some veggies (w/ caterpillar for me), and a great conversation. Motorbike road trip, somewhere south of Kawasan Falls. Price of 2 lunches including drinks $1.20
 Called a Carenderia, place where lunch is ready in pots, basically a home made buffet.
 Our trusty 125cc motorbike! $7 a day. Travelled over 100km that day, got real sunburnt. I drove, Ivan backseat, dry eyes, diesel exhaust all over me
 Moalboal's only internet cafe, not run by Koreans. probably 110 degrees in that comp room
 we stood for 3 hours, hanging on for dear life, as this bus wound through the mountains. Cost $1.25 total, and some gray hairs.
 the Shamrock Pension house, basically the most jacked up roach infested windowless boarding house you can possibly think of. We slept there 2 nights. Cebu City.
 Self explanatory
 Say hello to my little friend. He just wouldn't die... we killed him 3 different ways.
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