Siquijor Travelog: Getting there

Siquijor Travelog: Getting There

Among the country’s 7,107 islands (or more as they say), how many have you visited?

How well have you spent your summer?

Tight budget? Tight schedule? For sure, you haven't considered Siquijor yet - not until you finish reading this 5-part blog post.

Me, together with my former college boardmates residing all over Mindanao, 1 from Cebu and 1 from Manila have decided to extend our summer vacation by having a trip to the Mystic Island of Fire - the Province of Siquijor. This is our Siquijor Travelog

Siquijor /sɪkɪˈhɔː/ is a fifth income class island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. Its capital is the municipality also named Siquijor. To the northwest of Siquijor are Cebu and Negros, to the northeast is Bohol and to the south, across the Bohol Sea, is the island of Mindanao.
Siquijor is the third smallest province in the country, in terms of population as well as land area (after Camiguin and Batanes). For a time it was part of Negros Oriental.
During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, the Spaniards called the island Island of Fire (Spanish: Isla del Fuego). Siquijor is commonly associated with mystic traditions that the island's growing tourism industry capitalizes on.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siquijor

To get there. You can have any of the following options:

A ferry trip from Iligan City to Lazi, Siquijor, which departs on Friday evening.

There is also an approximately 4-hour ferry trip from Cebu to Siquijor daily.

A ferry trip from Dumaguete to Siquijor is also available daily.

Since I am from Oroquieta City, I decided to take this last route, from Plaridel to Siquijor. It is a 6-hour ferry trip every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, departing at 12nn. The ferry will dock in Larena Port, a municipality in the province.

Our own-made two-day itinerary starts on Saturday. Our other friends would arrive on Friday and some on Saturday morning. Yet we arrived on Siquijor on Thursday evening since the next accessible trip for us would then be Sunday, the last day of our itinerary. So me and my 2 friends don't have anything on schedule to do for Friday - not until our spontaneity kicks in.

To be continued in Siquijor Sojourn II : Spontaneity

PS.

If you're wondering about our accommodation, our family owns a house in Tacloban, Siquijor, Siquijor since we've lived there for 5 years.