Sugar Beach

I spent a few days at an out of the way beach, called Sugar Beach by tourists, Langub Beach by the locals. It was a hard place to get to but definately worth the effort. Once we reached the town of Sipilay we took a trike (motorcycle with sidecar) to a broken bridge. From there we walked for twenty minutes to where the road ended at a few huts by a river. We paid for a small boat to take us across the river and from there had to walk a small path carved in the rock to get around a cove and the the beach opened up. It was a huge and largely empty with only a handfull of places to stay. The swimming was excellent and in general it was quite a relaxing time. But as is the case with such places there was really not that much to do, swimming and sitting on the beach an get pretty tiring. There was some Scuba diving but I didn't feel up to it at that point.

The accomodations were fairly nice and relatively cheap, exept for the first night where we stayed at a Filipino resort. It was expensive and this seems counter-intuitive as it is a resort aimed at Filipinos but apparently when Filipinos travel they bring their extended families with them and they all stay in the one room which cuts down on costs. We split the room with a nice Dutch fellow we met and the next day got a much nicer and cheaper room at the next place over.

So the days at sugar beach were spent sleeping late followed by sitting on the beach and swimming. And the evenings were spent consuming alcoholic beverages. Leaving the place felt both sad and good. We took a boat back to town.