Davao Day 2 - Samal Island ( Inland Tour)

Woke up feeling blue that day. My first to wake up without my Liam gazing up on me but it was my time. Obviously, I woke up quite late than the usual. Hurriedly packed my bags and washed up. True, the rest of the group were already having breakfast. Oh, it felt so good to be “late”. haha.

Sarah here brought her adorable toddler Theo. They had their breakfast at 6am. haha!

With our chartered (just to make it sound sosyal) van, we headed to the pier where we can take boat to the Garden City of Samal. It toook 15-20 minutes to go there from our hotel and I realized how “stretched” Davao City is. Can’t imagine the taxi bill..oh!

When we got to the pier, some of Paradise Island Resort’s staff came to our rescue. Hauled our bags in their cute cart and off we went for our island adventure.

Let me acknowledge this trip’s “sponsor” that gave salvation to my very limited freelance writer funds.haha!

Walking to the “pier”. My hips can’t lie.boo!

To my left is the sea. To my right is a creek. Amazing huh?

Look how clean this beach is! White sand with happy fish population living..Right beside an industrial plant. Not sure if its an oil depot or something..

Under the talisay tree. So Pinoy! hehe

Finally Samal Island! Water is crystal clear with lively fish swarming around.

We stayed at Paradise Island Resort ( I’ll blog on this later)

Such a lovely day it was!

After lunch and settling in our respective villas..sorry, rooms ( hehe), we rested for a few hours to kick off with our inland tour. Samal Island reminds me a lot of Guimaras Island.

For our inland tour, we were supposed to visit the Monfort Bat Sanctuary, the rice terraces, view of Samal and Hagimit Falls. From the start, we skipped the rice terraces entry..we had lot in Negros.

Sorry, I personally will not recommend the Bat Sanctuary. You can throw stones at me but with an entrance fee of 100Php, I don’t find it pleasing. I don’t know any local and natural attraction that costs higher than 50php. As what Wendy said ” daghan ra man na sa simbahan oi ( we can see those bats in churches!)”. You nailed it girl! haha.

But anyway, here is a pic of their entrance.

It was drizzling and our next stop was that view of Samal island from the top. Maybe because of the rain, again it was not that nice. I think it was just me and hubby who went out of our van to take some shots. I hope they can fix their viewing deck or hut. It could have been a nice place to enjoy the cool and fresh air.

Sorry for the hazy shot.