Clark was an American base and is just another crowded Filipino city full of westerners with bars and restaurants: another place we didn't want to spend too much time at either.
Bancas that take you from bay to bay with their bamboo outriggers.After one night in Clark we headed south to catch a ferry to Panay Island. The ferry landed at Puerto Galera and we caught a jeepney to Sabang which is a popular place for divers to visit the many ship wrecks off the coast. Sabang is jammed onto a small stretch of beach with hotels, bars and dive shops all crammed along the water's edge. We decided to walk about 20 minutes further along the coast to a bay called Little Laguna because it did not have the noisy bars with live bands or 24 hour go-go dancers. Many people of all ages do tours that include a companion and so the place is full of old, fat, ugly men with pretty young Filipino girls. John and I felt out of place!
John celebrated his 60th birthday here in Little Laguna at a small bar restaurant next door to our accommodation. It was very strange not being able to do this with friends and family so we will have to have a belated party when we return home in 2009!
We both had head colds and were happy to lounge around in Little Laguna and do day trips to some of the other beaches as we do not scuba dive. The beach at Little Laguna was not clean and it was too rocky for swimming with lots of broken coral littering the beach from the recent 3 typhoons.
Lechon or suckling pig sold on the streets ready to take away.
Lechon or suckling pig sold on the streets ready to take away.
