Hi To All,

We just did this route recently, 8/18/2012 to be exact. we leave bulacan at arround 12 am Saturday, we drive all the way from bulacan to Matnog, passing thru the province of Quezon, sorsogon and the rest of Bicol region. By 8 am we reach the city of Naga where we eat our Breakfast at Jolibee LCC. Then we drove again all the way to Matnog. At arround 11.50 am we reach matnog and miss the ferry that leave at 12 pm. So we wait for the next ferry that will be leaving at 2 pm. we reach port allen at arround 4 pm, the ferry ride is almost 2hr. We drove again all the way Tacloban. At arround 8 pm we reach Tacloban City, this is where we eat our Dinner, we are very hungry at this time because we havent eat our lunch. Then we find a nice motel where we can freshen up, we take shower and rest for 2 hrs. at arround 12 am sunday we left Tacloban city and drive agian all the way to por Liloan, at arround 3 am we already reach Port Liloan, we wre advise by the gaurd that the first trip of ferry is arround 7 am, so we rest at the vehicle and instruct the gaurd to wake us up at 6 am so we can buy the Tickets. exactly 7am the ferry depart port Liloan and we reach port Lipata (Surigao) at arround 11 am. This is where it gets interesting, once the ferry reach the open sea, the part where the pacific ocean enters the philippines Hmm charge to experience. Hehe,,
From port Lipata we drove again for 2 1/2 hrs all the way to Butuan City.