Lake sebu is quite nice,havent been to kiamba for years,couple of nice beaches but that's it,iffy is subjective,wrong time wrong place can happen anywhere,the german guy beheaded recently for example,wrong time wrong place.Years ago I climbed Mt Bongao,passed a group of guys when I was going up,when I came down I heard rumours that one of the younger guys had been chatting crap about kidnapping the puti,not serious talk just crap,but you just never know,had a few incidents in the Philippines,like I said you pays your money you takes your chance,just because one person comes away unscathed from a dodgy area doesn't mean the next fella will be so fortunate.When I lived in Davao I would have laughed at the suggestion that kidnappers would come all the way to samal to snatch westerners,but as we know it happened,unstable volatile regions like Mindanao,and whatever anyone says I now know it is a bit iffy,doesnt bother me but I still admit its got its dodgy areas.When I first came on this forum I used to say Mindanao is ok,its fine,loads of people mostly those who hadn't even been there at the time said its dodgy,but I was just going off personal experiences,not hearsay,if I had been kidnapped it would have been different