#6 - 17 reasons why

He gives me adventures.

This is probably one my favorite reasons why I simply find him amazing. He never runs out of ideas and excitement about our next travel or laag-laag. He loves to go to places with me. He loves taking me to places I've never been before -  be it just some nice spot in the nearby town or to a hundred-kilometer-away place or to another island. The distance doesn't really matter. What matters is the thrill and excitement we feel when being in a place for the first time - and being there TOGETHER for the first time!

Going somewhere for the first time is quite exciting and challenging and always memorable. Of course, none of you knows the place. You both don't know where to go and what to expect. Every moment's a constant surprise. That's why most of our travels turned out to be laughing and exciting adventures with so many getting-lost moments. Well, after all, that's what it's all supposed to be, right?

We don't really have that very faraway or out-of-the-country travels - YET. We will have that soon (wink!). But the places we've been to together so far, knowing that it's still our first year, are notable. Notable for someone like me who is not really into traveling and who doesn't really have so much travel stories before. And knowing we're both busy in our respective works yet we still find time to go out, travel, relax and have fun - together! Not everybody has something like this, I think, which makes this love story a special one, hehehehe. :-)

To sum it all up, here are the places he has taken me for the first time. And I can still vividly remember all the beautiful memories of these moments - Every. Single. Moment!😊😊😊

One of the not-so-far-away places he has shown me. It's just found in the nearby town where I worked yet it feels like somewhere far. I never thought that there's a place like this in the small city of Bais. For those who have gone to Manjuyod sand bar (Maldives of the Philippines), they probably know this place. But for someone like me who hasn't gone there, that explains my surprise. And ow, there's the scenic mountain view too (that's more perfect). Sadly, I wasn't able to take a photo because I was totally awed by the beautiful scenery and, of course, with the person I'm with (chos!).

Now sorry for the faces, hahahaha! But that's all I got from that time. This was in the famous Boardwalk of Tanjay. It's my first time. I'm living a few kilometers away from Tanjay so it's not usual for me to be in this place. Been hearing about it for so long yet wala ra. No one took me there but only him.

Now this is one of my favorite travels. It's in La Vista mountain resort somewhere in the Occidental, like almost 200-kilometers away from home. We haven't been to the place before and we didn't even know exactly where it is or how to get there. We just crazily decided to go there and it turned out to be a super-worth-it adventure!

The resort's super private that it looks like it's reserved for just the two of us, hahahaha!

Still in La Vista. The resort offers quite a few adventures aside from its beautiful mountain view. They have a 1.5-kilometer zip line (back and forth makes it 3!), cable car ride and horse-back riding. Usually I don't do stuffs like these because I'm just so afraid of heights and I'm always thinking that there might be an accident, which obviously prevented me from doing extreme adventures in the past. But now, I have this not-so-kulit boyfie that's just soooo excited to let me try out these stuffs and of course, I always end up agreeing. So, there you go. That's me about to take what if feels like the scariest ride of my life! Wooooaaahh!!! I almost cried, really! Like, really!! 

The travel that surprised us the most! Although we're fond of going on adventures without knowing exactly the place or the route but this one defined it literally. This was in Sugar beach, Sipalay - another adventure in Occidental. But this one's from the opposite side of La Vista, I think, cause we took the opposite route to the south, not sure though! Well, this is not your "usual" Sipalay adventure (the dozen islets are the usual). Sugar beach is a long stretch of white sand hidden behind the mountains. And it is really hidden! You have to go the extra mile just to find the place cause it seems like there's no visitor-friendly signs there and all the small roads are confusing. Plus there's no other way to reach the island but to ride a small boat. Google map too was confused about it's location. It kinda got us lost a couple of times.

The entire beach is beautiful and what's amazing about it is that only a very few people reach the place (it's quite difficult to find it by land, really!) that' why it's private and so perfect for me 'cause I hate beaches with a lot of people (arte lang? hahahaha!). There are a lot of beach resorts too just lining all throughout the whole stretch for you to choose from. They are owned by foreigners who obviously just fell in love with the place and decided to stay there for good. The rooms are quite affordable but the foods are kinda expensive. Tsk!

You have to ride something like this to be able to reach the place. It was fun!

Ow! This was when going to Sipalay. We had to go through this zero-visibility part of the mountains. It doesn't really show zero visibility in the picture but in reality, believe me, it is!!! And it's super cold! That's why I needed a hug (weh? hahahaha!).

The REAL scariest adventure of my life - ever!!! For a person who's so afraid of heights, this is torture! But of course, the feeling of accomplishment after, that I feel like I'm the bravest girl in the planet, is incomparable. And this is quite famous so it feels good to have tried something everybody's been talking about. This is, by the way, the sky adventure in Crown Regency hotel in Cebu. They also have zip line but I don't wanna try it anymore (kotang-kota na ako sa zip line!). Plus the rides are not that affordable, you know. There's a dinner buffet too in their hotel's resto with superb food, I swear, and with different varieties of cuisines from all over the world.

The previous pic was the edge coaster and this one's the sky walk where you'll be walking on  a glass and the whole city's underneath you. Scary. Got shaky knees.

This one's in Dauin. We just wanted to relax and breathe the fresh sea breeze so we ended up in this resort. This place is quite special for the both of us. There was a time when we felt like everything's so wrong and the whole world's against us and we just found ourselves running away from everybody and everything and ended up here one fine late evening. I can still clearly remember everything back then when the night's so quiet and we just stayed there staring up at the stars (our favorite thing to do). It's like our safe haven.

Now this one's not new here. I've already made a post exclusively about this place before. This is one of our first few adventures - ow not this one - the first time we came here actually. This was the second time already because the first time we came here, the resort's fully booked. That's the time when we had an exciting and tiring and thrilling adventure finding this place. And ended up disappointed because we can't stay at the resort. But luckily, we found a resort just a few kilometers from here which is a very nice and private place also with a perfect beach. It's quite a good find and I definitely want to go back there one day. The place's quite memorable for both of us. Really memorable.

Now this was the most recent one although it's already three months ago, before I went for review classes. Obviously, this is in Bohol. There's so much to see in Bohol and thank God we were able to go to all the places we wanna see there - of course, Panglao is number one on the list. As usual, we got lost for a couple of times (we hired a motorcycle for 24 hours so that we can have an unlimited tour). We got lost but that adds up to the fun and that completes our travels! We really had a great time during our trip.

Of course we didn't miss to visit his twin tarsier! hahahahaha peace bikoooii!!!

The ever-beautiful Panglao. Well, it's not actually as nice as the pictures in the internet but it's still worth visiting. The small town of Panglao is quite amusing. It's small and far yet it has something like a downtown area complete of all the stores and shops and cafes and restos and bars. The whole Panglao beach even looks like mini-Boracay because of different restos and bars lined up in the area (Jeff just told me about Boracay cause I've never been there yet). The night life by the beach is amazing for a small faraway town like this. 

There are still so many places we've been to together but I'll just end it here for now before this post goes too long. Yeah, I know we haven't been that far (no plane-ride trips yet) but again, distance doesn't really matter. It's the adventure and the memories, right? Besides we're still on our first year. 

And for a start, this is really something.

Til next time! :-)