When main roads become rivers and you need four hours to get home instead of the usual 15-minute walk, you realize that a heavy monsoon is hitting the island.
The state weather bureau PAGASA announced the yellow level warning late yesterday evening when many people were already stuck in locally waist-high floods. Some jeepneys became immobile in front of the mall.
I had headed to the mall to buy some office supplied before going home (read about Virlanie‘s Open Day Center for Bacolod street children here), and finally spent my entire evening with hundreds of other blocked people at the entrance of the mall. This time, my umbrella was not enough…
![14 memories from 14 days in Tanzania mainland 🇹🇿
[1-3] Coffee farming and hiking at the foot of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro around Materuni
[4] Carsharing with Mo and Ludovic from the French Peking Express near Arusha
[5-6] Meeting a Maasai community with Allen on our way to the Serengeti
[7-10] Serengeti
[11-14] Ngorongoro Crater](https://www.isitoexplores.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
😮 Stay dry and safe!