Legaspi, Donsol and Whale Sharks

This past weekend, we went to an area at the South of the island of Luzon, around a town called Legaspi. Our flight departed from the new terminal at Manila International Airport. It seems completely bizarre that all international flights are not directed through the new terminal. It seems that Cebu Pacific is basically running and using the new terminal, for domestic and international flights. I would think the Philippines would make a much better impression to foreign visitors, if all international flights began to be directed through this terminal. 

This is a picture of one of the ATM's at the airport. Check out the communication devices on top of the ATM, along with a toilet roll or two. Not sure how secure this ATM really is...lol.

This is a part of the new terminal, with a bunch of very tired travellers sleeping in the airport.

Unfortunately, we were rained out in Legaspi. We did see a baby wale shark very briefly, and in very murky water. We weren't able to climb Mount Mayon - the volcano - because of all the rain. It was so muddy and parts of the city got a little flooded.

We found other things to do that were so much fun. We got on a trike - tricycle - and went through the drive through at Jollibee :-) This is our friend Sadri, taking a photo of us on the trike. The photo's will follow at some point later.

 This is one of the trikes, with half of the wheel underwater! We were standing on the sidewalk outside the shopping centre, with the mini waves lapping up over the edge of the sidewalk.

This is a view of the square outside the LCC shopping centre. The whole square was under at least a foot of water.

Here's some video of one of our trike rides :-) All of us piled onto one trike :-) It was a ton of fun!

                                         

This is the drive through at Jollibee :-) I'm pretty sure they've had trikes go through there before, but they haven't had trikes with a bunch of crazy foreigners go through before :-)

This gives you an idea of how much it rained over the weekend while we were in Legaspi. Our only way across one of the streets without getting our feet totally soaked was using the trikes :-)

This gives you an idea of how there just isn't any way for the water to drain off the streets. It's crazy.

On the whole a fun weekend despite the rain. I would never have gotten the chance to ride a trike in Manila, so we definitely had a culture vulture experience :-)