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Palawan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palawan, Philippines
One of the seven wonders of nature
... . The scenery of green hills, palm trees and lush paddy fields was splendid and we just soaked up all the warmth. Transport on Palawan is still very limited and we hardly saw any traffic on the road. Therefore any vehicle gets loaded to the limit (and ...
El Nido
... and grilled whole fish and salads. I should explain that El Nido has probably one of the best seascapes in the Philippines. The whole area around El Nido has huge limestone cliffs rising out of the sea making for a fantastic and dramatic vista. ...
monkey bite
WOw is Palawan ever amazing, it's a nature lovers paradise!!! So much jungle, mountains and wildlife. OUr journey on the ferry was actually longer then we expected after a 7 hour layover in Cuyo, which was nice they had a beautiful beach but ...
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 ;)) ...
Picture-Perfect Palawan
... the page looking for pictures and were disappointed, I'll explain. Six days ago we arrived on the Philippine island of Palawan. This is a relatively remote place. Every town here is powerless for most of the day, relying on generators ...
Honig
... 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. Unendlich suess im Geschmack und delikat im Geruch ist er, ...
amazing place
... beach and checked out some really cool cave. We also rented a motorbike and took a little tour to the Northern tip of Palawan the beach there was nice big waves, that were actually scary when we ended up almost getting suckedout in the rip ...
Puerto Princesa
I had a nice but chilling flight to Puerto Princesa - the a/c was on HIGH! The route in was amazing- a bit like New Zealand with amazing mountains jetting out of the water. I got into Puerto Princessa and took a tricicle to the guesthouse - Banwa. I ...
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 ...
Sabang
I decided to go to Palawan from Manila so i booked a cheap flight and off i went. It was only a 1hour flight - after which i got a jeepney(like a big jeep-but is a taxi) To Sabang.This is where i met two Phillippines people- One of whom had lived in ...
World class wreck diving!
Coron's main attraction lies about 20 - 40 meters under the water surface, where a number of Japanese warships can be explored. During the war in the Pacific in 1944, heavy air strikes in Manila Bay forced the Japanese to move their remaining ships to ...
Visa et glande
Aujourdhui journee de faineants, on se leve vers 9h30, puis allons en tricycle jusqu'a l'immigration, le premier tricycle ne sait pas ou c'est et nous depose au mauvais endroit. EN prenons un autre qui lui nous depose a l'endroit voulu. Au moment de ...
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 ...
The Bacuit Archipelago: Tour C
Last night, I booked Kuya Dante to guide me on a strenuous hike up one of the limestone cliffs in El Nido Town. I woke up at 0600 in order to get ready to meet Kuya Dante at 0615. The name of the peak is "Taraw". We walked for 20 minutes to get to the ...
El Nido and the Bacuit islands
... ggrrrr.. So we had a great time in El nido and met some great people and it was defo the highlight our travels in the philippines. very untouched by tourism so get down there in the next few years cos it will only head one way.. For anyone who has ...
Wreck diving course
Cette fois-ci Ivy se leve et va travailler pour 8 heures. Moi je me leve vers 8h15, me prepare et me rends direct a l'embarcadere rejoindre Thomas mon instructeur. On est que tous les deux avec le pilote. Je pars pour deux plongees aujourdhui dans le ...
Welcome to the Philippines!
Kumusta ho! From Singapore we flew via Manila to Puerto Princesa, the main town on Palawan, Philippines. Puerto, as the locals call it, is a pleasant small town with all the necessary shops, offices and banks to arrange things before heading out to the ...
Palawan the last frontier
... is known as the Philippine's last frontier. It sits in relative isolation to the west of the Philippine archipelago. The Philippines is the second largest archipelago in the world second only to Indonesia, it's close neighbour. Palawan has been ...
Palawan: Puerto Princesa to El Nido via Roxas
... the option to sit on top of the bus (a safety hazard though). I don't blame those who select this path.... the views in Palawan are simply phenomenal. Lush forests and a spectacular coastline greet the first-timer. The costs for a bus ride is P350 ...
Palawan
Palawan We arrived in Palawan around midday and headed into Puerto Princesa get accommodation. The first accommodation recommended by LP was grim and dirty so we crossed the road and checked into another place that seemed to cater for Koreans. We then ...
El Nido
The journey up to El Nido was a bit crappy but it could have been a lot worse. The minivan was PACKED with loads of people - including Missionaries I had to listen to them rabbiting on for ages. Not just missionaries - American missionaries - yuck! We ...
prvi del dooolge zgodbe
No, koncno sem tok v civilizaciji in pr volji da kaj napisem :) da boste lahko spet brali moje neumnosti :) Torej po zadnji zgodbi sem se podala iz Balera po grozljivi cesti proti Tarlacu (spet). Prespala v mojem najljubsem hotelu z bazenom in celo ...
The underground river
... caught a tricycle to my hostel which it turns out was a long way away! Puerto Princesa is the capital of Palawan and is supposedly the cleanest city in the Philippines. But it's fairly small and oddly the airport is right in the middle of the town - the ...
PALAWAN
How could you think of missing one of the exotic, last frontiers of pollution-free environment called PALAWAN? CEBU PACIFIC is the budget airline in the Philippines. Check out its flight schedule; book early on because many others maybe traveling to ...
Valentine Massacre - German style
Valentine Massacre - German style That night they were have a part at El Dorado to celebrate Valentine Day, all you could eat pig roast which they were cooking out the back for about 5 hours (I felt sorry for the poor sod tuning the pig the whole ...
Palawan
... River auch einen wunderschönen Strand zu bieten. Neben dem aufkommenden Touristenansturm sorgte auch die Stromversorgung auf Palawan immer wieder für Gesprächsstoff. Während auf den Visayas nur wenige kleine Inseln nicht ganztägig über Strom ...
Wreck diving in Coron
... So by the morning, we were pretty spaced out and ready for sleep! However, we could immediately see how beautiful the Philippines were going to be just from our approach to the island. Several tiny islands with deserted beaches surrounded by crystal ...
Puerto Princesa: Underground River
We only stayed for 3 days/2 nights in Puerto Princesa. We arrived at our guest house, located about 15 minutes from the city center. Since we arrived in the city on Good Friday, all of the tourist sites were closed. We just went to church instead, had ...
Penang to Puerto
... of Borneo a month ago instead of a flood bruised sky, we might have been able to see the bottom of Palawan, the western most province of the Philippines. At the time, I was too busy chatting to a sunburnt Cockney taxis driver who prompted me to tell him ...