Nic Trips

I picked up Andrew from the airport in the late afternoon on Thursday. From there we took a taxi to the bus terminal at the abandoned Costal Mall to catch a bus heading for Tagaytay. We arrived there around 9 pm and checked into Our Melting Pot Hostel. This was a clean, spacious and adorable house with what we would soon realize was the most kind and helpful staff ever. We spent the entire morning of our first day in Tagaytay sitting around the hostel and planning the details of the rest of our trip with the help of the staff. Then they gave us some instructions on our trip to the volcano and a recommendation for a restaurant for lunch. The restaurant we went to, called RSM, was a gorgeous and fancy Philippine restaurant with an incredible view of the lake. We got a ton of food and rice to treat ourselves to our most expensive and fancy meal in the Philippines, and it still only came out to 750 pesos (about $17). The food was delicious, accompanied by some Philippi...