American Carry protection in Philippines

[Magic Power 7]

Including the imagination!!!!!

nakasabot ko

[Ban Hammer 12,904]

sigh.

[rlogan 2,036]

Yes good advice, I am aware of the rule of engaging with a filipino, If you start something there is another guy with a knife coming at you.

I like to wander off, I purchased a motorbike last trip so I can get around much easier. I roam the Philippines and so far have never had a issue, I just heard right now that Davao has a rash or holdup and murders, and Duerte has issued a extra bounty for dealing with these criminals.....

I did the same thing. An Enduro-type 250 with great big knobbies for off-road work. I went through the Mountain Province and then the Kalinga Province on one trip - and within this last year saw where I went back then on a TV show called "World's Most Dangerous Roads". Pretty funny. That was it alright. It's why I used that mountain bike. I just stayed with people I met. Really primitive people, in the Rice Terraces and on this volcano there was a pygme group I stayed with - whoever looked interesting. Saw them harvesting sugar cane by hand, using ancient presses and makin' stuff out of it with molases and rum and brown sugar. One time I had trekked across the Rice Terrace villages where there were just footpaths only and met people so primitive the girls would get down on their knees and bow their heads in silence until you passed. The next year I went there the UN was putting in some kind of road and electricity.

But if you mention Davao because you are biking on Mindanao, I'd be pretty careful about the itinerary. I have a house on Mindanao and know the place well enough. Are you actually going there? There is an ongoing war with the MILF, and some Abu-Sayyef are there, along with communist NPA goons and kidnap-for-ransom gangsters in some places,so it would be worth studying up on if you are going to Mindanao.