Onto another bus, heading to Oslob. Now with Oslob, the vast majority of tourists visit here for one thing only, and that’s to swim with whale sharks.
A friend recommended that we should stay at “Sharky” hostel, which is right next where the boats leave for the whale shark trips in the morning, so this means you can be on the first boat out in the morning. I’m sure in the town of Oslob there is more to do, but where we were there wasnt really anything at all, so we just ate and got an early night. 4.30am our alarm goes off to get ready, obviously feeling super tired but powered through. I’ll be honest, the thing with the whale sharks is it is a bit of a moral dilemma. They aren’t exactly forced to stay by any means, but they are baited with food and stay there whilst so many boats go out throughout the day and people swim near them. I’m still glad we did it, as I didn’t really feel like it was cruel but just the sheer amount of people who they have doing it does just leave you thinking. Needless to say, i can imagine it isnt an experience you’ll get to do many other places, and even though they are absolutely huge, they are completely harmless (though sometimes you do need to swim out the way of them!).
The same day, we jumped on another bus, to take us all the way back up to Cebu city which took about 4 hours. We toyed with the idea of flying the same day, but in the end we chose to spend a night at a hostel and fly in the morning. We spent the night at the hostel, ordering a takeaway and recharging before our flight out of Cebu.
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