Intro to Mindanao starts in Dapitan and Dipolog Cities
It was a pleasant personal discovery for me when I learned that Dapitan City and Dipolog City of Zamboanga Del Norte can be reached via Ceres Liner in about 10-hour ride. My friends and I did not catch the lone Ceres trip going that route and we decided to get to Dumaguete and catch any trip from there. To our surprise, there are lots of Ro-ro operating and though we initially banked on Fastcat, it was full already, so we lined up and eventually rode the Montenegro Lines. We slept our way through the 3-hour sail and we were in Mindanao already. Amazing. From the port, we rode our first public tricycle which can seat two sets of two passengers inside facing each other and is funnily designed like the head of a sailboat which has higher front seat and lower on the other side. And so, we started our Day One after we had lunch at the famous Sunday eat-all-you-can in Kalan-an ni Manay with lechon and seafood fare in Dapitan City. RIZAL IN DAPITAN After ...