Nate and Kara Buchanan arrive on Siargao island in the Philippines. They find a $16-a-night room with no AC, explore the local market, and discover motorbikes are how everyone gets around.
January 23, 2016
67 kg (with backpack)
About $16 per night
It smells so weird.
Morning. Checking out.
To the airport. Cebu Pacific International? No, domestic.
Once again.
Me.
How many kilograms do you weigh?
67 with my backpack. The backpack's really good.
You can never be too safe. That is now three checks of our boarding pass. And we went through security twice.
Who knew donuts were so coffee? We went hazy. I've had way too many.
A little nervous to get on this flight. We had to step on the scale and weigh ourselves before we boarded.
There is no telling what kind of plane we're about to get on.
Reporting on time. It's a miracle.
Here we go.
Let's hope they have space for us. We have it booked out.
We're here.
All right.
Well, the place that I originally found on the Internet that wouldn't respond to me was booked up.
So our driver drove us to this other resort, which turns out his wife.
Works here, so that makes more sense now.
And we get out and they had a room, and it's only like $16 a night and no AC, but looks.
Pretty clean and nice.
The fan's pretty good and it's cheap. So I think we're here to stay.
One minute walk to the beach. I think we can do it.
I think this is home in Siargao. Yes.
Time to eat.
So there's, like, no one at the restaurant town. We just come downstairs and we tell them we want to eat, and they go get a French chef who works here, and he just comes down and makes whatever we order. It's going to be awesome.
Wow.
Thank you.
That smells good. Can I eat that?
I love this.
The popular way to get around here is motorbike. Not quite sure if I'm ready for that yet. We are going to explore our island by foot because I'm scared to ride anything else.
We're going to show you the place we're staying.
We spent way too much money on food in Tokyo.
We are going to the grocery store.
To get some groceries. However.
It'S a 30. I think that's the taxi. We're trying to get some groceries to the store. Yeah. Okay. You want to let me go and you stay? Can two people get on? Yeah.
It's okay?
Yeah. You sure?
Oh, God.
Let's do it. I'm so scared, guys.
I'm always driver every day. You're a good driver.
Okay. Oh, gosh.
Going fast. You just slow. Okay?
Okay.
That's your first time.
How much are they? Look, this is 600. That's so much. It's 12 bucks.
Thank you.
Cool.
Perfect.
Oh, this looks dangerous.
We got some money.
Take a picture.
What should we learn? What you like to learn?
How do you say hello?
Hello. Same.
Yeah.
Hello. Hello.
Hi. Say thank you.
Thank you.
It.
