Tour Itinerary

	Day 1 (Fri) - Arrival day in Manila at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Our tour coordinator will meet you at the Manila airport to assist your transfer to the domestic side of the airport and assist you in getting your baggage checked in. We will accompany you on your flight from Manila to Butuan. Flight time is about 1½ hours. Our transportation will be waiting at Bancasi airport in Butuan to transfer you to the Almont Inland Resort. You will stay at this same resort on the last night of the tour after we arrive back in Butuan. Shortly after your arrival and check-in and after we have eaten lunch, we will assemble for a short indoctrination session. We will issue your cell phone and motorcycle then take a short ride thru the city streets of Butuan and into the countryside (about 30 to 45 minutes) to allow you time to get a feel for the motorcycles and also to get your feet wet driving amongst the other Filipino drivers. After we return, the rest of the afternoon and evening is yours to unwind from the jet lag, take a swim, eat dinner and explore Butuan if you so desire.
	Day 2 (Sat) - Ride from Butuan City to Cagayan de Oro & Overnight Ferry Crossing to Dumaguete City, Negros 7:00am breakfast, suit-up, check-out and off we go to Cagayan De Oro sometime around 8:30am The ride from Butuan City to Cagayan De Oro is about 4-5 hours long including rest stops, photo ops and a lunch break. We should arrive in Cagayan de Oro no later than 1:30pm. This is a very nice ride with a mixture of mountains, inland and coastal roads. There are a number of ways to kill time in Cagayan De Oro and how we do so is up to the tour group. The possibilities include shopping at the Limketkai and SM malls, riding thru the city to check out the sights and there are also some nice eco-tourism attractions. If we manage our time properly, we should be able to include all of the above, reserving the malls for our dinner and evening activities, and still get to the ferry terminal about 10:00pm in time to process in the motorcycles and board Cebu Ferry 01 bound for Dumaguete with a midnight departure time. Our accommodations on Cebu Ferry 01 will be semi-private with 2 couples sharing a cabin with its own porthole, private bathroom and cable TV. Sleeping arrangements are bunk beds with privacy curtains. There is a snack bar on the ferry to keep us stocked with drinks and snacks and the early morning necessity of coffee. We will hold our evening review of the following day's ride to Iloilo prior to the ferry departing from port.
	Day 3 (Sun) - Arrival at port of Dumaguete - Ride to Bacolod & Ferry crossing to Iloilo City, Panay We will awake about 7:00am to see the port of Dumaguete City, Negros over the bow (front) of the boat and the island of Siquijor to the starboard side (right). We should be processed off the ferry and ready to Ride by 8:00am We will stop in Dumaguete City for breakfast and then mount-up for our ride to Bacolod which will take about 4 hours including rest stops, photo ops and such. We should arrive in Bacolod City around 1:00pm to 2:00pm We will eat lunch in Bacolod City and then ride to the port to make the crossing to the port of Dumangas, which is about 20 minutes north east of Iloilo City, Panay. The ferry departs from Bacolod at 4:00pm and arrives at the port of Dumangas in Iloilo at 5:00pm After departing from the ferry terminal, sometime around 5:30pm, we will make a short 30 minute ride to our hotel for the night, Hotel Del Rio, which is situated on the banks of the Iloilo River. After checking-in and eating dinner, we will hold our evening review of the following day's ride to Caticlan and crossing to Boracay, after which the evening is yours to dispose of as you wish.
	Day 4 (Mon) - Ride from Iloilo City to Caticlan and pumpboat ride to Boracay We will awake around 7:00am and eat the breakfast buffet at the coffee shop in Hotel Del Rio, then suit-up for our ride to the tip of Panay at the port of Caticlan. We should be on the bikes and riding by 8:30am. We will travel the national highway going to Caticlan, which hugs the western shoreline of Panay that borders the Sulu Sea. This is a very scenic ride that starts out with a crossing of the Cordillera mountains and continues with ocean views to the left and mountains to the right for most all of the way to Caticlan. The ride to Caticlan will take about 4 hours and upon our arrival, we will leave the bikes and our tour staff behind and immediately board one of the waiting pumpboat ferries (A.K.A. outrigger boat) for a short 10 minute ride to the worlds #1 exotic beach destination, Boracay Island. The entire island is only about 6km long so there is no need for your motorcycles here and I doubt very seriously if you would even think about them for the next day and a half. Upon our arrival on Boracay Island, we will charter a tricycle (pedal cab) for each couple and in a matter of 10 minutes courtesy of Filipino foot power, we will arrive at our home for the next 2 nights, the Nigi Nigi Too resort, located at Boat Station 1 on White beach. That is unless everyone is game to make a beach assault on the resort, in which case we will have the outrigger boat take us directly to the beach in front of the resort. Upon check-in to our rooms at Nigi Nigi Too's, we will walk about 10 minutes to the D-Mall and sit down for pizza at a very nice Italian restaurant that specializes in pizza baked in a wood-fired oven.. Other than dinner, we have no other items on the itinerary for this afternoon and evening. My suggestion would be to walk around the main strip and beach front road to see what all is around and get a good perspective for what you want to do the following day. We will also hold a very short and sweet evening review of our group activity option for the following day. Afterwards, the night-life of Boracay is at your fingertips
	Day 5 (Tue) - Boracay Activities !!! Itinerary ??? We are at the worlds #1 exotic beach destination and you want an itinerary ??? Ok here it is, wake-up, coffee, breakfast, Boracay, lunch, Boracay, dinner, Boracay night-life Seriously, we have 5000 budgeted per couple (per bike) for group activities. What you decide to do with it is your decision. Among the options are mountain biking, kite-boarding, wind-surfing, snorkeling, jet skies, island hopping, souvenir shopping and more. 5000 pesos is a lot of money in the Philippines and will pay for most any activity you wish to engage in if spent individually including all of the above mentioned activities. If spent collectively, it will go even further, the choice is yours. Our meals this day are all paid for at Nigi Nigi Too's restaurant/bar so you can choose to eat here for free or eat elsewhere at your own expense.
	Day 6 (Wed) - Crossing from Boracay to Caticlan, Panay - Ride to Iloilo City and ferry crossing to Bacolod City, Negros Assuming you actually went to sleep the night before, our wake-up call is 8:00am. Our goal is to eat breakfast with bags packed and assembled at the pump-boat landing around 9:30am. Assuming we meet our goal, we will be back on the shores of Panay before 10:00am, where our trusty and jealous tour staff will be waiting with our bikes and whatever baggage you decided to leave behind. After loading up all of your souvenirs and baggage into the chase van, we will depart for Iloilo. Depending upon my latest survey of the north eastern coastal road, we may take this route back to Iloilo as it offers some very nice scenery of the eastern shoreline of Panay, otherwise, we will follow the Strong Republic Nautical Highway that cuts thru the island's interior. We will need to be be back in Iloilo City before 4:00pm to catch the ferry back to Bacolod. We will find a decent place to eat lunch while in route. Depending upon when we arrive back in Iloilo, we have the options of a 3:30pm and a 5:10pm crossing. We will exercise the earliest opportunity and hit the port in Bacolod about 1½ hours later. After receiving the bikes from the ferry, we will take a short ride to our hotel for the evening, Palmas Del Mar, situated on the oceanfront. After checking into our rooms at the Palmas Del Mar resort, we will eat dinner in the resort's restaurant and immediately afterward we will hold our evening review of the following day's ride to Dumaguete and ferry crossing to Siquijor Island. After the evening review, you are free to go about your business unobstructed.
	Day 7 (Thur) - Ride from Bacolod City to Dumaguete & Ferry Crossing to Siquijor Our wake-up call this morning will be 5:00am to facilitate our arrival in Dumaguete no later than 10:00am. We will eat breakfast and be suited-up ready to ride at 6:30am The ride to Dumaguete is about 3 hours so the only stops we will be making on this leg of the tour is for restroom and re-hydration. We should arrive at the port in Dumaguete around 10:00am and immediately proceed to check-in on the ferry and load the bikes. Our departure time is 11:15am The ferry ride to Siquijor is short and sweet and our ferry should be docking at the port of Siquijor municipality around 11:45am to 12:00noon. From here, it is about a 30 minute ride to our home for the next 2 nights at the Coco Grove Beach Resort, which is located on the southwestern coast of the island in the municipality of San Juan. Upon our arrival, we will check-in and eat lunch at the resort's beach-side restaurant. After lunch, it is time to start our exploration of the island, starting with a ride around the entire island that will have us stopping at the local markets and churches along the way. The ride around the island is only 102km (64mi) long so we will have plenty of time to take in all of the sights, stop for photo ops and browse the local markets for souvenirs before making it back to the Coco Grove Beach Resort in time for dinner around 6:00pm After dinner, we will have a short review of the following day's activities and the remainder of the evening is yours to dispose of as you wish
	Day 8 (Fri) - Siquijor Island Exploration and Activities Our wake-up call this morning is 7:00am, after which we will proceed to eat breakfast at Salamandas restaurant overlooking the white sand beach in front of the Coco Grove Beach Resort. Having spent the previous afternoon visiting all of the sights and public markets, we reserve our activities this day to cave exploration (morning) and snorkeling/diving (afternoon). As always, you are free to opt-out of the group activities and do as you wish if there is something else you wish to explore or if you simply want to relax on the beach and enjoy the amenities of the Coco Grove Beach resort. After returning to the resort from our cave explorations and eating lunch, we will put on the mask and fins (tanks also if you have your diver's certification card) and explore the exotic and colorful underwater world of Siquijor that causes it to rank in the top 10 diving spots world wide. Returning to the resort from our underwater adventures, we will eat dinner and immediately hold our evening review of the following day's activities and ferry crossing to Bohol. The remainder of the evening is open to your own desires.
	Day 9 (Sat) - Ferry Crossing and ride from Siquijor Island to Bohol Our wake-up call this morning is the decent hour of 8:00am. After breakfast, The entire morning is reserved to sit back and enjoy the resort and white sand beach of Siquijor Island. Feel free to embark upon your own snorkeling or morning dive adventure. We will eat lunch about 12:00noon and immediately proceed to check-out of the resort. Once again, we will tour around the island and back-track in our previous tire tracks to hit the markets and get those souvenirs you wish you had bought 2 days back. We will arrive in the port at Larena about 5:30pm so we will have enough time to eat dinner at a local restaurant as well as check-in and load the motorcycles for our evening crossing to the port of Tagbilaran, Bohol. Departure time from Larena is 9:00pm and arrival in Tagbilaran is 12:00 midnight We will hold our evening review on the ferry and upon our arrival in Tagbilaran, we will make a midnight ride from the port to our resort, Isis Bungalows, on the island of Panglao. Including the processing time to get our motorcycles off the ferry and the riding time to the resort, we should arrive about 1:30am at Isis Bungalows. After check-in its lights-out.
	Day 10 (Sun) - Tour and ride of Bohol and Panglao Island Our wake-up call this morning is 8:00am, after which we will proceed to eat breakfast overlooking Alona Beach from the open-air restaurant of the Isis Bungalows resort. After breakfast, we will begin our activities which starts with a ride into Tagbilaran City. Using Tagbilaran City as the starting point, we will start out on our trek to circumnavigate the entire island, a ride of about 250km./156mi. During this ride, we will pass many old churches and visit the site of the Blood Compact. We will depart the costal road on the northern side of the island, near Tubigon, to head inland and visit the Chocolate Hills, where we will eat lunch at the restaurant located in the park development. After traveling back to the coastal road and riding to the south side of the island, we will also take a short rest around 4:00pm to enjoy a 1 hr ride up the scenic Loboc river on a floating restaurant, buffet and live entertainment included. We should be back at the resort about the time it is getting dark and immediately sit down for dinner at the Isis Bungalows Restaurant. After dinner we will hold our evening review of the following day's ferry crossing and ride to Camiguin Island. Afterwards, you are free to do as you please.
	Day 11 (Mon) - Ride from Panglao Island to Camiguin Island Our wake-up call this morning will be at 8:00am. We will eat breakfast and be suited-up, ready to ride at 9:30am. The ride to the port of Jagna will take about 1.5 hrs from the resort and have us arriving at the port about 11:00am. The ferry does not leave until 1:00pm so we have plenty of time to eat and get checked in. We should arrive at the port of Mambajao on Camiguin Island about 5:00pm and we will immediately ride to Paras Beach Resort which is only about a 15 min ride from the port. After checking-in, we will eat dinner and hold our evening review of the following day's activities. Afterwards, you are free to do whatever strikes your fancy.
	Day 12 (Tue) - Tour Camiguin Island Our wake-up call this morning will be 7:00am. we will attempt to eat breakfast and be suited-up, ready to ride by 8:30am. Our morning activities will be to, again, circumnavigate the island. Camiguin Island is much smaller than Bohol and you can easily ride the entire islands shoreline in 2 hours. Our ride, however, will take about 4 hours since we will be stopping at a number of sites including the sunken cemetery, 2 natural hot springs, an active volcano observatory, a dormant volcano and the runs of an old church that was destroyed during the Japanese occupation in WWII. There is also a natural cold spring and a soda swimming pool if anyone is interested in visiting. We should be back at Paras Beach Resort in time for lunch around 12:30 to 1:30pm. After lunch, we have an island hopping excursion planned to visit White Island, which is basically just a large wishbone shaped sand bar with white sand. This is a perfect place to do some snorkeling. We will also make a sea visit to the sunken cemetery that we saw from the land vantage point earlier. Upon our return to the resort, the remainder of the afternoon and evening is yours to do as you wish, other than taking time to eat dinner and hold our evening review of our travel back to Butuan the following day.
	Day 13 (Wed) - Ride from Camiguin Island to Butuan City Our wake-up call this morning will be 6:00am so we can eat breakfast and be suited-up by 7:30am. We will be riding to the southern tip of Camiguin Island to the port of Benoni, where we will catch the 9:30am ferry back to Mindanao, arriving at the port of Balingoan about 10:30am. The ride from Balingoan to Butuan City is about 1.5 hours so we should be back at the Almont Inland Resort about lunch time. After lunch, you will go thru the process of turning-in your cell phone and motorcycle and we will hold a short wrap-up meeting. The remainder of the day is yours to do as you wish. We will hold our last evening review about 7:30pm, after dinner and again you are free to go about your business un-obstructed.
	Day 14 (Thur) - Flight from Butuan City to Manila Since the only item on the itinerary today is your 15 minute trip to Bancasi airport, you can pretty much do as you wish as far as your wake-up time goes, but you will need to have all of your morning business taken care of and have your bags ready to load by 9:30am. The van will depart for Bancasi airport at 10:30am so you will arrive at the airport in plenty of time to check-in the 1 hour early that PAL requires. There are a few gift shops outside the airport that sell very reasonably priced T-shirts and hand crafts. I am sure the vendors will appreciate your business. I would suggest, however, that you refrain from eating the food at their native cafeterias and reserve your appetite for the airport in Manila. Our van will remain at the airport until your flight is in the air. We bid you farewell and and a pleasant flight home, hoping to see you and many more of your friends back again very soon to ride with us on the Lower Visayan Islands and/or Eastern Visayan Islands tours.

 Lone Riders Run

	Lone riders make up the bulk of our business and we have molded our tour package especially for you, to keep down the tour cost and to allow the tour to operate even when there is only one motorcycle signed-up. All lone rider's runs are operated without the chase van and we only accept a maximum of 4 motorcycles on tour. Now you don't have to worry about whether or not we are able to get 2 or 3 more bikes registered and as soon as we receive your deposit it becomes a done deal so start packing your bags.
	Special Terms and Conditions Booking deposit of 50% is required 30 days in advance of the tour start date to secure your spot on the tour. This deposit is non-refundable, in consideration that we will immediately be using it to make all necessary resort reservations and these reservations are, in turn, non-refundable to us. The remaining 50% balance is due 2 weeks prior to the tour start date and is fully refundable (minus wire transfer and currency exchange fees) should unforeseen circumstances prevent you from coming. An advance booking deposit of 10% is optional and can be made as much as 12 months in advance of the tour start date. This will lock-in your spot on tour as well as the tour cost and will exempt you from any potential price increases. If you opt to make this advance deposit, an additional booking deposit of only 40% is due at the 1 month mark prior to the tour start date, instead of the normal 50%. The same terms and conditions apply to the advance booking deposit as are applicable to the booking deposit. The tour cost will be the 1-2 motorcycle un-escorted tour cost. In the event we are able to get more than 2 motorcycles signed up on the tour, we will issue a refund in cash on the day you arrive, based on the total number of motorcycles on tour.
	Tour Routes / Dates / Cut off dates Lower Philippine Visayan Islands (Click for itinerary and cost) Tour Dates: Operated monthly This tour starts on the 3rd Friday of each month Eastern Philippine Visayan Islands (Click for itinerary and cost) Tour Dates: This tour is operated monthly, during the months of April thru September only, due to the onset of the rainy season (eastern monsoon) which runs November thru February and affects the Islands of Leyte, Samar and Eastern Mindanao. This tour starts on the 1st Friday of each month, March thru October Western Philippine Visayan Islands (Tour featured this page) Tour Dates: Operated monthly. This tour starts on the 1st Friday of each month, October thru March

 Payment Policy (Please review our TERMS & CONDITIONS page for more details)

	All tours are priced in Philippine Pesos (PHP) and this is a fixed price. Currency exchange rates fluctuate on a minute by minute basis, 24 hours a day, same as stock prices, so the amount you pay in your currency will vary slightly but usually never more than 1-2% over a period of 30 days.
	A booking fee of 50% is due 30 days prior to the scheduled start date of your tour. The remaining balance is due 15 days prior to your scheduled start date. Booking fee is non-refundable if you decide to re-schedule or cancel your tour. We use this portion of the payment to make all resort reservations and sometimes ferry reservations at certain ports where the more luxurious accommodations on the ferries are known to stay booked solid as much as 1 month or more in advance. Most all resorts require we make reservations as much as 30 days in advance to secure their luxury rooms. These reservation fees are non-refundable to us if your tour is rescheduled or cancelled. Please make sure you will be able to travel on the dates you plan. Never book a tour unless all tour guests have their passports in hand and round trip airplane reservations confirmed. These are the 2 primary reasons why tours need rescheduling. The second payment made to us (50% balance) is refundable for lone rider's tours, but non-refundable in full for individuals of chartered group tour packages in consideration that the tour cost has been discounted for all participants, based on the total number of motorcycles on tour. If this happens, we adjust the total tour cost of the tour based on the new number of motorcycles on tour and any remaining balance is refunded minus wire transfer and currency exchange fees. In the event that the entire tour group needs to cancel and you have already made the final 50% installment, this installment will be fully refunded minus any wire transfer and currency exchange fees. In the event that you want to re-schedule the tour, we will do our best to transfer the resort reservations to the new tour dates and keep your loss to a minimum but we cannot make any guarantees in regards to being able to transfer the reservations without penalties or loss..
	All payments are made by international wire transfer into our account in the Philippines. You are responsible for paying all wire transfer fees and currency exchange fees. The amount we receive in our account must equal the fixed PHP tour cost. Please make sure to shop rates from various financial institutions prior to making your transfers. Although international wire transfer fees are generally about the same from one bank to another, currency exchange fees can range from 1% to 5%. Sometimes, a currency broker can be your best option. Make sure you are getting a good rate !!! Please make sure your financial institution understands that your wire transfer needs to equal a specific amount of foreign currency after all fees. Any discrepancy in the total amount of actual funds received into our account and the actual tour cost will be payable in cash upon arrival or refunded if over paid. We require that your wire transfers be made as single transactions for the deposit and final payment for the combined total cost of all motorcycles on tour, instead of individual transfers from each of the tour members. Not only does this make our life much simpler in tracking and registering your payments, it will also save your tour group a considerable amount of money in wire transfer fees and also give you more favorable terms if you choose to use a currency broker. Please explore these suggestions with due diligence. They are sure to save you a considerable amount of money !!!