Unusual accommodation
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31042)
United Kingdom
March 17, 2007 8:59am CST
Where is the most unusual accommodation you have ever stayed in whilst travelling?
I have stayed in a thatched treehouse in Belize, a moored boat in stockholm (Sweden) and a fale ( a thatched beach structure) in Samoa.
1 response
@2timothy (794)
• Philippines
18 Oct 07
A public classroom. This is not what a regular tourist would expect. This happened a decade ago when we where traveling to Southern Mindanao to promote the then newly published Cebuano New Testament Recovery Version. There where no hotels or lodging inns in those rice fields we spent hours crossing through and no hut big enough to accommodate a jeepney load of people. Since we reached nightfall and no vehicles are allowed to cross during the dark hours due to military security operations in that area, we had to settle in a public classroom which is the only big enough accommodating place in any village.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
25 Oct 07
That sounds very interesting place. So there was trouble in Southern Mindanao meaning that people were not allowed to drive around after dark due to the military security in the area. Wow! It must have been exciting to travel around and stay in such an unusual style of accommodation. Many thanks for your wonderful response.
@2timothy (794)
• Philippines
26 Oct 07
The classroom accommodation is not much a problem as we were too exhausted to care if we sleep on the floor or on a couple of desk or chairs assembled together from the whole day dusty jeepney ride. The thrilling part is when we had to go through checkpoints after checkpoints not knowing which side was inspecting us as both sides (military and insurgents) wear fatigues. Once we were all asked to unload from the jeepney and asked to walk in single file through a reddish soaked long mat at the side of a cottage beside the road. I was thinking then if some were put on firing squad there before we arrived. I was ready to be martyred. Only later did I learned from the locals that that was for disinfection as we are to pass through a plantation. :)
