It turns out our optimistic thinking about the rain going away didn't help at all, and so we've spent today in the rain, which seems to get worse and worse!! The positive side is that we only had to wait 15 minutes at the bus station (thankfully under shelter) until a bus going our way was ready to roll.
The bus ride to Baguio took about 5 hours, complete with snack stops, was a pretty smooth ride - occasionally we got a view out over the green rice field and terraces with farmers and their buffalo knee-deep in mud. Every now and then a mountain popped out of the distant grey shadow that was hiding it.
In Baguio we got a free ride to the cheapest hostel in town, before braving the torrential rain (not an over-statement: the roads are flooded!) and making our way to the SM Mall (the biggest chain of mall in the Philippines). Here we picked up some groceries, munched down a meal, and jumped on the world wide web.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll be in the mountains and the rain will have stopped. But it's likely only one of those 2 will come to be!!
Adlibing rain.
Friday, June 5, 2009
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