The next stop was Siargao. We were at the airport, passed the gate to board, where we saw we would be flying via a propelled plane. It was a funny experience, and although windy it was fine.
Once we arrived in General Luna we were staying in a hostel for one night before we moved onto a place I booked for my birthday. However, disappointingly, once we arrived at the place for my birthday we saw a lot of construction being done on the place, we still said we would try to make the most of our time there. That day we went to go check out “Cloud 9”, which is a famous spot for surfers, and one of the main highlights that draws people to Siargao. I was eager to have a lesson, so Laura relaxed on the beach with the intention of also having a lesson on a later date, whilst I went off. It was a good experience, and I was almost getting the hang off it until we had to cut the lesson short once I landed on a rock from the tide coming in.
The next day was my birthday, but quite sadly Laura fell ill overnight to what at the time we could only assume was some kind of bug. We decided it would be best to go to a medical clinic, where they confirmed she had a bacterial infection. So unfortunately we had to spend the majority of the day inside our room so Laura could recover on antibiotics. Thankfully, we did manage to still get to a really nice restaurant we had booked for the evening, where we had some great food and listened to the live music.
So the next day we checked out and moved to a hostel, where we would be staying for a further 3 nights. Laura was feeling a lot better, but our luck turnt from bad to worse. Throughout the day I started to develop a terrible migraine, which kept me up all night feeling nauseous. This was strange as it seemed quite unrelated to Laura being ill. So unfortunately, with Laura feeling better but me now feeling terrible, we basically spent the majority of the rest of our time in Siargao leaving our room to go get food and then returning so I could lay down.
All in all, Siargao was disappointing. It’s a beautiful place with more palm trees than I’ve ever seen in my life. The surfing looked great, and I had heard the nightlife is also supposed to be pretty good. I still enjoyed it as much as we could, there is tonnes of quirky shops and some really great food too, I just wished we could’ve experienced Siargao’s full potential. The only silver lining is that we had both been pretty lucky to come this far in our travels with neither of us being particularly sick, and that it came at near enough the same time to both of us. Siargao will definitely be high on the list to return to, if I can get the chance to go back to the Philippines!
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