36 hours to Mindoro |

Scenes from sunrise on our way to Batangas Port

I landed in the Manila airport around 19h on a Sunday night. I had taken a pre-flight to Paris the night before and from there, it was a 18 hour travel time between Paris and the Philippines with a tiny layover in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The entire trip felt like a haze, waking up and falling into naps as I was still fighting off a cold from the week before. Finally, I landed and after a lengthy immigration line and some confusion as to how to meet with Lugao and his family, I finally landed in their Airbnb…