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Filippinerweekend
... vi svoemmede rundt i. Her ville Henriks billeder igen vaere gode at have til dokumentation. Det var virkelig smukt og ulig Vietnams vandfald var vandet krystalklart og lyseblaat paa den der helt rigtige maade! Efter vandfaldet tog vi til en strand, der skulle vaere meget beroemt og god. Den skuffede dog lidt i foerste omgang, da den var meget lille, men saa opdagede vi, at der var to udspring paa hhv. 5 og 7 meter. Det hoejeste jeg nogensinde har hoppet fra ...
Armed to the teeth!
... br> walking through the shanty town so i decided to turn round! Walked past a
machine shop come engine spares shop, the two guys where helpful and
pointed me in the right direction. Managed to find the Fort, I had a
walk around it was pretty interesting and that was the only two sights
to see round cebu city!!lol. Every bank has armed guards consisting of pump action shot guns and Ak-47's along ...
Island of Bohol
... church museum although no pictures were allowed. Items like original wood chairs with upholstered seats, bells, clothing sewed with gold thread for the priests. There was also a college on site but we were not able to see this. A big chunk of the museum was under renovation and was going to be increased in size.
The Nypa Palm, we learned, is one of 27 (out of the 47) different types of mangroves in the area. ...
Major major times in Cebu
Friday 23rd brought the first GCD: Civil Society. Some excellent background on civil society development from History Dad David and epic quizzes, all of which took place at the University of San Carlos, which is our new GCD venue. We ended up taking 4 jeepneys to get there…it appears there's more than one Uni of San Carlos. Excellent. Post-GCD we did a tour of the uni officials, stopping off at the Dean and then the Vice President, both of whom welcomed us to their university ...
First week in the Pilipinas!!
... pitchers of beer! Thursday- Fly to Cebu In the morning we split into GCD groups so I'll be working with April and Chris and we're planning to do ours about mixed marriages. Also split into committees do I'm going to be working on the debrief weekend. We then flew to Cebu and I managed to put 7kg of my stuff in hand luggage so I didn't have to pay baggage allowance, yay! flight was much more interesting cos u could see a lot more of the islands. We then drove to ...