News from Paradise

ok. The following videos are maybe not nice to watch for some people.

But its Filipino culture. Same as cockfighting.

Horse Fighting.

Clip 1 - The 2 male horses separately are made horny and aggressive.

Then they fight for copulating with the female horse.

Non of the horses died or had visible injuries when I saw the fights. Still i guess there are bad injuries or even dead horses in some fights.

I know its cruel and i don't support  it.

Its not necessary, but its culture. Same like bull fighting, cock fighting, and killing and eating animals for food like most of us do. That's why i personally don't condemn the people doing it.

Staying on King Kong Island brings you close to nature.

Sometimes a bit too close

Beautiful bug found on the roof of my appartment (aproximately 5cm body lenth)

BIG unfriendly looking spider in my appartment

Black scorpion found on the stairs to my apartment (Chris is taking a bite)

A simple fishing net. The size of the single loops is sooo big. Imagine what size of fish ...

View from the terrace of my apartment

Ken and myself decided to climb Mount Hibuk Hibuk.

A nice hike. Short, but veery steep.

View from the top down to White Island.

Panoramic view from the top

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Opposite view - White Island in front and Hibuk Hibuk in the back. Picture taken from a plane. (c) Wikipedia

Supermodel :-) Ken at the top.

On the way down we found a beautiful flesh eating flower.

Lots of things happening here on King Kong Island so not much time to write BLOG.

The hike to Hibuk Hibuk vulcano was very nice. Story and pictures to come.

And my friend Ken got his first 2 fishes.

And what a catch.

A good friend of mine arrived in Camiguin - Ken.

We plan to climb the vulcano Hibuk Hibuk together.

1332m high.

One of the still active Vulcanos in the Philippine.

Story to come in 1 day!