To Bohol via Talibon
Everytime I go back home to
Bohol, I would usually travel via Tubigon or Tagbilaran and way back in
college, I would travel via Ubay so going to Bohol through Talibon has always been my last
option. But I had no other option yesterday, we have to ride the 12 noon ship
to Talibon because there was no ship to Ubay on Sundays and going via Tubigon
would take time to get to Guindulman and I was dying to reach home and eat
"sapajan" or in Cebuano "pasayan". Our neighbors had this
fishpond and they sell real cheap shrimps and bangus. My papa would buy and
cook me "sinigang na sapayan" which is my favorite.
Well enough for that, it
makes me hungry thinking of that big yummy shrimps. So going back, James and I
headed to Pier 3, since I don't know where the ticketing office is, I asked a "kuya",
an elderly man about it. We were able to buy our tickets worth Php 260 each and
then realized that the kuya who helped us get our tickets has his own modus
opirande - to sell us his otaps and ampao. We felt pity so we decided to buy
one but kuya insisted to buy three packs instead "para wala daw kida".
Tired of refusing we just bought the three packs for Php 100.
Inside the port, I was amazed
because the terminal ticket was quite different compared to Pier Uno's. They
have e-tickets instead of the yellow one but both of them costs Php 10.
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| tickets worth Php 260 each |
We rode on
a Chinese bus going to the ship.
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| reminds me of those Korean series and movies.. :) |
I was surprised and amazed
because I was expecting that we will be riding a boat but it was an
actual ship. As I observed, it looked like a cargo ship, the upper part of it
was where the passengers stay.
Here is how it looked like:
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| view from outside |
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| looks like a barge as well |
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| the beds are pink, so kikay! |
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| life jackets available per deck |
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| sitting areas |
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| over priced pantry |
Plus points:
* the beds were obviously new
and clean
* the windows were covered
with pink curtains
* all of the decks has life
jackets
* the whole room is air
conditioned and there were also electric fans on the corners
Minus points:
* crews were slow and looked like they don't know what they are doing
* their goods were a bit costly (e.i, fudgee bar costs Php 15)
* the ship runs slow
It took us four hours to
reach Talibon Port. I have been to Talibon for a
couple of times already so I am familiar with the place already. It was raining when we went out so we were unable to take good photos with the area.
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| talibon market place |
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| Talibon Catholic Church |
We rode a turtle-run PUJ to
Ubay and waited for my papa to fetch us up. It was already six in the evening
by then and both of us were hungry. We found a restaurant in Ubay named Sans Grill Chicken
Ati-atihan, we checked the place and ate dinner there.
At 7:45 pm, my parents
arrived at Ubay and thanks God home sweet home at 8:30 pm.
xoxo,
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