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Friday, July 3, 2026

SAMPLE SIARGAO ITINERARIES for 3, 4, 5, 6 Days Tour or More!

Traveling to Siargao? Here are some sample Siargao Itineraries that you could follow for your next trip to one of the Philippines' best islands and top surfing destinations! Indeed, Siargao Island has gone a long way from being just a quiet surfing town to one of the Philippines' top tourist destinations. To visit Siargao is one of the items you will always see on the "bucket lists" of every

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Friday, June 26, 2026

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Kindness of strangers: As I waited under the relentless sun, a woman brought me a freshly made feast

She came directly up to me and offered the tray, accompanied by a torrent of incomprehensible Greek

The straps of my backpack dug hard into my shoulders as I trudged like a zombie through the sweltering heat. I was hitchhiking across the Greek island of Crete in summertime and had been dropped off in a small village miles from anywhere, hoping to pick up my next ride. It was 1978 and probably didn’t help that I looked every inch the hippie – jewellery, bushy beard and dusty clothes.

Cars passed only infrequently, maybe one every half hour. When they did, they hurtled past like unstoppable express trains, without a sideways glance my way. I took a seat on a low stone wall and hoped for the best. But after several hours under the relentless sun, I was beginning to think I’d never get out of the place. A few houses dotted the main road but the village seemed to be asleep.

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