Badjao Inn & Restaurant Puerto Princesa

... and Rose (the owners, he is from New Zealand by way of Australia and she is a filippina) are great people. Andy will pick you up and drop you off at the airport.

The room was comfortable and the service was great, although the roof leaked in the corner of the room during an overnight rainstorm.

I rented a motor scooter near the House of Rose. The price is PHP500/day but if you mantion you are from the Hosue of Rose, the rate is PHP400/day. Explored ...

... Mr. Bean and took a photo with them. Then we took all the saints out for lunch. Some of them couldn’t come. All us kids sat on the same table and had chicken BBQ. I enjoyed my time although the kids could only speak a little English. Then after lunch we went out with two saints to a souvenir shop and bought a shark tooth necklace for me. Then we went to the bay ...

... humble huts were made entirely of woven bamboo and stacked thatch with windows and doors open to a magnitude of tropical insects. The road is lined with children playing with long reeds, women cooling themselves with hand fans as they rock silent babies, about a million stray dogs, and tiny shacks all selling the exact same things: candy, chips, cigarettes, Tang, Tide laundry detergent, and...beer! By this time the rain had picked up again, so we decided to pick up the ...

Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous avons fait une route de garnotte pour 7 heures pour se rendre ici a El Nido. Le conducteur roulais plus vite sur la route de gravel que sur les rares parties betunes. Nous sommes arrives plein de poussiere, nous avons eu quelques probleme avec le bus. Il semblait que c'etait le radiateur. Mais comme il sont tous mecaniciens comme seconde job, ils etaient 3-4 sous le capot pour reparer. Nous avons trouve un jolie bungalow avec le ...

... en general et une attraction de taille soit une Cave avec une riviere navigable sur 8.5 km (la plus longue du monde selon eux). Il essaie de faire partie des 7 merveilles naturelles du monde. C'est pourquoi il nous font voter avant d'aller dedans (drole d'astuce). Donc je disais que nous avons louer une petite bungalow sur le bord de la mer. Vraiment mignon. Un petit souper sur le bord de la plage, une visite de 10 ...

Greeting's to all from sunny Palawan! After spending the majority of June at the farm, reading, reflecting on my PC service and planting wonderful veggies I arrived in Manila on Saturday for yet another wedding of one of my fellow PCV's. Dave and Maris are a wonderful couple and I was pleased to be invited to the intimate ceremony and reception they had on Sunday at a beautiful small garden restaurant in Quezon City area of Manila. There was a small group of PCVs there ...

... that I'd be sitting, twiddling my thumbs while waiting for my flight in the evening, but lo and behold! Armand, the talented singer/songwriter from Boracay happened to be in Manila at the time... as well as Markki! These were the guys I'd met in Boracay! Markki was on his way back home as well and was killing time at the airport... and I was able to convince Armand to come out and chill with me too! What a happy reunion. It's awesome when things work out like that!

... people or there was a sign asking people at the start of the walk (or if they charged a small entrance fee that enabled him to be paid). So, if you go on the walk please take some peso for the caretaker :-) Accommodation We were a bit put off by the UK owner of the resort as he seemed to have some rather interesting views about the future of western nations with 'uncontrolled immigration' which he expressed rather loudly ...

... longest navigable underground river in the world. There's also a very decent beach, a good surf and not least a beach-volleyball court! Needless to say we hit the waves, do some serious body surfing and look for other travelers. They are surprisingly absent! The river turns out to be an absolutely stunning limestone cave/river that can be navigated about 8 kms, the roof is filled with stalactites (hope that's the right ...

... like this that would prove to make my trip so enjoyable...it reminded me of being in south america, but i could communicate even better...in japan and korea, my interaction with the locals on a "real" level of understanding is almost nil... on my way once again for the final leg of the trip...what started off as a "decent" paved hiway, had slowly given way to a packed dirt road, and now had degraded to a full on rocky, bumpy, treacherous, field of ...