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Palawan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palawan, Philippines
Food in the Philippines
... looked like a canned dog food and tasted like it! I was so disappointed. Since we are approaching our last days in the Philippines (Gesa, Gerrit and I coincidently fly out of Philippines on the same day), we are on a mission to find some good Filipino ...
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 ...
Automatic?
I was expecting to be woken up by sweltering heat in the tent. Thankfully though it wasn't actually that hot. Well outside it is glorious but we pitched the tent in a very shaded area by a rock and under cover. I'd say with the exception of Maya Bay ...
Ride Till Your Hands Bleed
In El Nido we woke up early because the fan went off. Here we will wake up early everyday because theres a fucking meat packing factory outside our bedroom door so every inconsiderate gobshite doing DIY karaoke at 6:30am wakes us up and keeps us awake. ...
When you look up, keep your mouth closed!
We took a day tour to Sabang, at the entrance to the longest underground river in the world. It's about 8 km long, under a mountain, but the tourist boats only go about 1.5 km into the cave, but it's still cool. The drive there was about three and a half ...
The Bacuit Archipelago: Tour A
... the most talked about destinations in El Nido. In fact, by press time, they are the most photographed seascape in the whole of Palawan. My friends who have been here only have accolades for these two lagoons. We met our guide, Kuya Dante and our captain ...
Diving in Coron (and the typhoon was ok)
Diving the sunken fleet of Coron Less known (and less important) than Perl Harbor the bombing of the Japanese Fleet in Coron was nonetheless a great victory for the Americans. On September 24.th 1944 180 Hellcat and Hell-diver planes launched from US ...
El Nido - paradise found
We found it - after hunting all over Thailand, bali, singapore, cambodia, vietnam, its here in El Nido, Palawan. Once we visit the underground river in puerto princessa make a beeline to el nido, not so easy as it is a six hour mini-bus ride, that has 40 ...
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 ...
Tao Expedition
... it was an amazing experience and I would do it all over again! My Tao group included 28 participants from Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Philippines, Austria and New York. We took a banka (a local boat made of bamboo and wood) with 8 staff on board and ...
Sweat, Lies And Mountain Bikes
I have been intrigued to hire proper mountain bikes since way back in Sagada when I was won over by a really cool picture of some people riding over a nice mountain. I have obviously ridden a moutain bike before but seeing as we are scraping the ...
Our Short stop over in Puerto !!
... hands on our brains, although in this case instead of brains they would settle for us parting with our pescos.. Welcome to Palawan !! Given the amount of reading up on Palawan we did and considering peurto was only a brieft stop over we quickly got ...
El Nido, You wont like it, you will LOVE IT !!
... However , Adam and I did inadvertently break some immigration laws by smuggling a pack of Boracay/ Cebu mangos into Palawan, a crime punishable by DEATH !!! haha ok only kidding but lets just say they really picky about the mangos you bring 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 ...
Hopped out!
... the Chinese New Year played a small role (many Westerners working in China spend their holidays in the Philippines), but only small. Palawan offers many activities, including the "usual" white-sand beaches, waterfalls, wild nature etc., but the main ...
Buebereisli United - Traenendruesenreport
... , geneigter Leser, dass mein Herz etwas schneller schlug, als mein Flieger aus Cebu den Boden der Insel Palawan erreichte? Dass ich eine kleine Traene im Augenwinkel verdrueckte, als ich nach einem Monat endlich wieder meinen Buebereislipartner ...
Island hopping in El Nido
... eiland in de filipijnen. Vanuit Puerto Princesa zal ik de bus naar El Nido nemen, wat vreselijk mooi moet zijn. Mij is verzekerd dat Palawan wel een beetje een gevaarlijk eiland is - de mensen zijn er ruiger - dus ik ben een beetje op mijn hoede. Ik stap ...
El Nido Town
... fingers crossed, hoping to nail a good deal. However, all of the rooms were fully booked. It's Holy Week in the Philippines -- usually a very popular vacation time for locals. Thankfully, I ran across one of the passengers in the shuttle van who ...
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 ...
Paradise islands
A day on a boat. I'm sailing South, to El Nido on the M/Bca Jessabel. One boat makes the 8 hour journey each day between Coron and El Nido. They are on a rota of 3 different boats. I didn't know the difference between them all - they all look the same ...
Food Poisoning
To get to El Nido we need to get a jeepney at 8am down to Roxas and then a bus up to El Nido. The whole thing will take about 5 or 6 hours. Hopefully we have two possible lengthy journeys left and then we are done with the travel aspect, thank fucking ...
Im wilden Westen
Die Insel Palawan wird auch "The last Frontier of the Philippines" geheissen - und das nicht zu Unrecht: Hier ist alles noch ein kleines Stueck rauher, urspruenglicher und wilder als im Resten des Landes. Lenny, noch mit dem Geschmack von Berner ...
Puerto Princesa
Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien Nous sommes partie ce matin de notre beau paradis pour venir a la ville. Puerto Princessa n'a rien de bien special sauf ses banques et meme encore, nous n'avons pu retirer le montant desire. Nous devons attendre a ...
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 ...
Paradise Hopping
We woke up early because the fan had gone off and the room had become a sweatpit. It still took me ages to leave the room which meant we were pushing it to have a breakfast before getting on the boat. Charlotte wanted some cereal. We eventually found ...
Puerto Princesa - Sabang
Bateau pour repasser par Cebu, d'où je prends cette fois un vol pour l'île de Palawan. Arrivée à Puerto Princesa sous une pluie battante - certains accusent un typhon, qui ne cessera pas pendant deux jours... ville vraiment pas attractive et sans ...