Understand
[edit]Get in
[edit]It is common to come on a day tour from either Cebu City or Dumaguete, but it is also possible to get there independently. Tour price range is ₱2500-3500 and depends on the number of people in a group, usually minimum of four people is required (2016).
By bus from Cebu City (3 hr), Bato (20 min), Moalboal (first 1½-hr bus ride to Bato, from there another 20-min ride to Oslob).
It's a bit trickier to get from Dumaguete: first take a short jeepney (₱10) or tricycle (₱150) ride to Sibulan port (3 km north of Dumaguete center), get on a jetty to Cebu island (it runs every hour, journey time 30 min, ₱60), from there it's a 20-minute tricycle (₱200) or jeepney (₱15) ride to Oslob. In general, jetties and buses are synchronised so that bus waits and leaves right after jetty arrives. It is also possible to get a bus all the way to Oslob from Ceres bus station in Dumaguete, though you pay separately for the ferry.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]- 1 Tumalog falls (“Toslob falls” or “Mag-ambak falls”) (15 minutes drive away). A cascading waterfall. Ask someone in the village to take you there, cost for a ride about ₱120. Entrance fee ₱20.
- 2 Sumilon Island. Can be visited on organised boat trip which starts regularly at the whale shark-watching point.
Do
[edit]- 1 Whale shark watching (10 km south of town). 6:30AM-noon. Prices include gear, instructor and a boat. Session time is limited to 30 minutes. ₱1500 to dive, ₱1000 for a snorkel and swim, and ₱500 to stay on the boat.
Buy
[edit]- DPB Bank atm, Tourism Office. 24 hour atm.
Eat
[edit]- 7-Eleven, N Bacalso Avenue. 24 hours.
- Julie's Bakeshop, N Bacalso Avenue. 7am-10pm.
- Cocina En Acantilado, a Filipino restaurant which is 300 meters away from the briefing center of whale shark watching.
Drink
[edit]- Aaron's Resort have food and drinks. Their tuna steak is good and the beer is cold.
Sleep
[edit]About a dozen hotels exist in Oslob.
- Casa Bonita Inn Backpackers Hostel, Tan-awan (along the highway), ☏ +63 933-200-0000. Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. Hot showers and free Wi-Fi. Dorm bed ₱350 per person.
- Sharky Hostel, Brgy Tan-awan, ☏ +63 915-411-6424. Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. Has 8 or 10 bed dorms. Free Wi-Fi. dorm bed ₱400 per person.
- Island View Pension house, Lagunde Oslob, ☏ +63 9751563939. Check-in: 1PM, check-out: noon. A bed is a 12-bed fan dorm. Free Wi-Fi. Breakfast ₱75. From ₱300.
- Guilly's Place, N Bacalso Avenue. fan single room, free wifi. 300.
Sumilon Island
[edit]- Bluewater Sumilon Beach Resort, Sumilon Island, ☏ +63 32 3183129. From ₱8200.