Cliffside Hotel Palau Koror

... tip. We also saw turtles and several extraordinary corals and fish. There was this one fish called the Napolean fish. They are huge and so friendly! The one we saw was my size and since they are so curious, they swim up to you and follow you around. We were able to pet it! Palau's famed "Rock Islands" are a collection of rounded, foliage-covered isles which seem to float above the surface of the water. A boat trip through them revealed a number of magnificent white sand beach ...

... one.   I hear a 'hi, how are you?' after diving one day. A boy on a bike. I waved and saw ... a dog on his back. Sitting like a child on daddy's back. The next day at the diving shop a boy said: 'I saw you jogging yesterday.' 'Where you the one with the dog on your back?' Yes: he brings his dog to work and home like that every day.   The last day I was shopping when a weird man stepped in. Tall and skinny. With a white beard, at least half a meter ...

... back home. Hubby is still asleep, so I need to take action. We skip diving today and go for a ... helicopter ride! Poor Tomcat has to dismantle all equipment on board. Bob was so nice to offer us his camera, if we wanted to go on the helicopter ride. Unfortunately, there is often a difference between what people say and what they do. Not with Bob. He gives us his expensive Nikon and goes diving. We go back home, I call the helicopter company and ...

... They look bored. At 13h30 someone picks them up. For a tour, I guess. Also in the town: it is invaded by the Japanese! We do find a shop which sells cameras. I just cannot imagine our journey without camera ... . A kitty adopts me but Dr T does not allow me to take it! This is where we are staying: http://www.wphpalau.com/eng/aboutus.htm l In the evening, we ...

... It does not appear on the surface either. We were diving a wall, 250 meter down. My Hubby is great as usual. He is sad because my new year's present is gone. But goes: ah well, ... . Does not get angry, nervous or blames me. We quietly sit out our surface interval and go for our second dive. It is weird without camera. Bob, our only dive mate, offers his camera if we want to do a land tour. Big expensive Nikon! Tomorrow, we have a dive break. No plans.

... such a thing existed! You hook yourself on to a rock or dead coral, blow up your BCD and hang there, like an air balloon in a string. Why? Because the current is so strong, you are wiped away and you want to stay in certain spots and watch the fish swim by. Interesting. When we come up, it is raining cats and dogs. Everybody puts on their rain coat. Hmmmmm: we never bring our rain coat when we go diving. We will here in the future. The way back is miserable. You cannot ...

... in the states have seen the commercial and recognize the island?! I spent a day driving around the main island here called Babeldaob and seeing the sights. I did a hike to a waterfall and on the way saw these abandoned wartime Japanese railroad tracks. The waterfall was called Ngardmau Waterfall and it was beautiful! I ...

The top of the immigration form here says "Where the rainbow ends" and look, they were right! There was more amazing diving here, not wrecks so much as beautiful coral and spectacular sea life. I did dive on one wreck here, but after Chuuk I was sort of ho-hum about it. Am I getting spoiled out here or what?! The best part of the diving here were the Manta Rays. I got to see a couple up close, each one about 10 ...

... guys did and that's how you get the pictures by having your hands free. Palau has over 200 rock Islands, and a couple have salt water lakes, this one is very popular as it contains millions of non toxic jellyfish and it's a great break from diving- you hike into the lake and snorkel around with all this creatures. Jelly Fish Lake Peleliu is a Palauan Island about 1 hour 45 minutes from Koror, this was the site of a huge WWII battle for an ...

... across the bay and then into a tunnel under a road. Then we just toured around. We went to see if we could find some alligators in the grotto but couldn't. After that we stopped on a sandy beach and snorkeled then ate lunch then we started out. When we were about two minutes away Ardie remembered that she forgot her shower shoes so we had to go back and get them. It was a rough ride and we wanted to check the crab rock but weren't ...