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Coron Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Coron, Philippines
Coron Island
... "do you think he is gay?". Honestly, the guy had; 'I love penis' shaved into his hair. The journey across the water to Coron Island didn't take too long. We had a group of 6, us and 4 Filipinos which inevitably meant we would spend the afternoon talking ...
solo
... holding me back now...Indonesia with my irreplaceable buddies, Malaysia with Le Village loves and now...sola como la llorona. Anyway, I'm in Coron Town now and after some drama with a french girl, I booked three dives for tomorrow. I miss Rob, Shaula and ...
Interesting observations to note.
Since we are currently out of power and there is nothing I can do at the moment, let me share some interesting observations I have made about this country in the last 3 weeks: 1. Toilet paper is a luxury. Most public bathrooms don't have it. If you ...
Ride Till Your Hands Bleed
... road I made the most of the bike and leathered it back into town. We dropped the bike off and booked to do a tour of Coron Island tomorrow. We are spending Saturday in one of two nearby resort hotels with a pool. We sorted that out, and had free popcorn ...
Diving in Coron (and the typhoon was ok)
... pictures of larger sections of the wrecks so you get just a teaser). The Typhoon Typhoon Utro hit Coron head on (well slightly to the north actually be it was very close) after causing great disturbance and several ...
Wreckdiving in Busuanga
Busuanga is het eiland waar je moet zijn als je wilt wreck-diven! Zes japanse marineschepen -of eigenlijk 9 maar ik heb er 6 gedoken - liggen vlak voor de kust en zijn in de tweede wereldoorlog hier tot zinken gebracht. Het is een ware attractie voor ...
Sweat, Lies And Mountain Bikes
... up on finding a secret pools we went off in another direction towards the beachs and on the loop of the immediate areas around Coron Town. I honestly had to stop to nearly be sick at one point I felt fucking dreadful, we were both absolutely drenched in ...
Wreck Diving Part One
... diver certification. We have neither of these and have only been to 30m once. I'm fairly certain that if you arrived in the Philippines and told them you have never done scuba before but one time you held your breath in a swimming pool for 1min they ...
Uber short blog
... visited various snorkeling spots and went to a huge and very pristine fresh water lake, said to be the purest lake in the Philippines. On our last day we climbed the second highest hill in Busuanga, there were 700ish steps and Kev actually tried to ...
Boring Rain Day
Another totally pointless entry. The intention was to move to our pre-booked room at Coron Backpackers in town. We literally woke up to the sound of rain, honestly it woke us it was that loud. We contemplated our options, we didn't really have ...
SNORKELLING AND WATCHING FOR SHARKS
Had a great day snorkelling near Coron Town at the Seven Islands. The coral was plentiful, colourful and varied(eg fan, bowl, staghorn, etcetera). I would snorkel along a coral reef that quickly descends down into the deep and in the shadowy ...
Ruined
... and sweaty. We got in and out a few times but after about 30min we were ready to come back to town. In town we tried Coron Bistro. Pretty good but rather expensive pizzas, still good to know there is nice 'home' food somewhere. We no longer have wifi in ...
The wrecks of Coron
... it. The group was really nice, all of a similar age to me. We sailed a short distance across the bay, towards Coron island. This island is a strange shape - rows and rows of stone lumps, some connected, others forming small little islands themselves. We ...
Rozstanie
... ce w podróżowaniu, w nurkowaniu są niestety przeciwwskazaniem. Liczyłam na luz filipiński… Arni, divemaster z Coron Divers, potraktował mnie na luzie „Take it easy, come tomorrow" i odesłał mnie z kwitkiem, ...
Christmas Vacation
... The last evening was another poolside dinner and a cultural show with performances of traditional dances from various regions of the Philippines. The last dance was the bamboo dance where the dancers jump between long bamboo poles as they are ...
Alleged wreck bashing
Coron bay is full of Japanese ship wrecks downed by the yanks during WW2. And Gadfly as well as being a gorgeous cruising boat is also a fully equipped wreck basher - all the dive gear, hammers, crow bars etc. are onboard! So it would have ...
Typhoon Warning!
You might have heard by now... another typhoon is due to hit the Philippines. After gracefully dodging the last one, I'll get thisone in my face! Just today it was upgraded to a category (signal) 3, so it might be rough. Winds of 120-150 km/h are ...
Wrecks, Springs and Slivovice!
Despite a long and mostly sleepless night, cruising into the Calamain Islands was very picturesque - what I had imagined the Philippines to be. Coron is busy little town with the main tourist attraction being wreck diving - 7 vessels sunk amongst the ...
Incredible Coron
... and a guide that knows all the sites, and we bought six beers at the sari-sari, then took off across the waves to explore Coron Island - the King Kong island that I began describing earlier. We had a lunch of fresh crab and shrimp and squid with ...
Arrivee a Coron
... amis d'Ivy passent, des gays, donc les invite a nous joindre, et commande un espece de hotdog pas mauvais pour les Philippines. Rentre bourre. Dans la nuit vais aux toilettes, retire le couvercle de la chasse d'eau pour tirer le flotteur manuellement, le ...
Island hopping et Ivy
Nous levons difficilement, en retard, appelle donc l'agence pour leur dire de nous attendre. Vois Sheryl, deconne avec elle en lui disant d'arreter de m'envoyer des sms car je ne les recois pas, en effet elle est toujours sur son telephone, donc elle ...
Exploring Japanese wrecks
... days here for business. After a good dinner at Le Bistrot we made it to a karaoke bar -a must in the Philippines- and yes I had to sing (after a few beers though and a cuban song so nobody could understand ;)) ...
World class wreck diving!
... ships to safer anchorages like Coron Bay. But despite their new locations the US reconnaissance detected the Japanese fleet around Coron and staged a surprise attack on 24th September 1944. At the time it was the longest range air attack ever launched ...
Honig
Auf der zweistuendigen Bootsfahrt zurueck von unseren Wracktauchgaengen vor Coron daemmerte es mir gestern, wie man das Leben in dieser abgelegenen Gegend (auf dem sowieso schon abgelegenen Palawan) am einfachsten beschreiben kann: Es ist wie Honig. ...
Busuanga
... seaplane, followed by a 45 minute ride on rustic "roads" on a jeepney, a converted and extended jeep used all opver the Philippines for local travel (see photo). The little town of Coron is the capital, nestled between the sea and the ...
Plongee
Me leve, laisse Rose comater dans le lit, vais prendre mon petit dejeuner, lis un peu mon livre de cours, remplis quelques exercices, puis vais au centre de plongee. Partons pour la journee, tout d'abord au Lac Baracuda, avec mon instructeur, Andrew, un ...