Fleuris Puerto Princesa

Easy 90-minute flight from Cebu City on Cebu Pacific to Puerto Princesa, provincial capitol of Palawan. Puerto is called the "cleanest city of the Philippines" but that is like saying the "tallest mountain in Iowa".

Palawan was a major (and very positive) surprise. It is stunningly beautiful, lush green, mountainous but with long, white sandy beaches. The House of Rose is minutes from the airport yet still very peaceful and quiet and a short walk from the beach ...

Sat. 24th October

Today we were going island hopping at Honda bay. I was really excited because Dad said that we could feed the fish and go snorkelling. We woke up early and had an early breakfast I was quite tired because I didn't have a good night sleep on Friday. We packed and took a tricycle to Honda bay.

We arrived and thought of buying an underwater camera to take photos of the fish. But ...

... Yes, this prevents the waste of precious water, but it makes for the smelliest bathroom I have ever entered! Not to mention the extra effort just to flush the damn toilet! Oh, plus, with this type of plumbing system you are not allowed to toss tissue in the toilet. So, all the tissue went into a waste basket on the other side of the toilet. I sure hope you can imagine the smells eminating from that room for yourself, because I am not interested in explaining them for you ...

... candles, depictions of jesus and the 3 kings etc etc - none of it is man made just images that kind of look like things in cathedrals made out of stalegtights. Then there is the fruit and veg shp where they all look like - yes - fruit and veg, then the highway which is a massive tunnel which looks like a huge moterway. It was all very good to see but not so memorable. There were loads of bats and even more swallows flying about and im glad I did it. We got ...

... depuis ici pour Puerto Princesa le vendredi, demain, et puis Puerto Princesa, ca fait rever. Voila, c'est organise... Je passe une bonne partie de la journee sur Puka Beach, au bout de l'ile, plage reellement magnifique, longue, avec personne ou presque car elle est eloignee. Paysage de carte postale, parfois je me dis que je n'y fais plus attention, tellement je suis dans mes pensees, tellement c'est mon quotidien :-) Je ...

... the picturesque bay of Port Barton was in front of us and after settling in to our clean and spacious hut at Greenviews Resort we had a snorkel in water that was as warm as a bath - not many fish though. Later we met a local 'Long' down the beach who chartered his boat so Michael arranged to go fishing the next morning.... Michael didn't have huge success fishing but that night we met a local at the front of our guest ...

... were i was staying and i hiked to the underground river. It's actually the longest underground river cave in the world 8 miles long!!! We only paddled 2 miles in though and nobody dared to look up without closing our mouths because of the bat **** guarana. There were really cool stalachtites and stalachmites in the cave. On the way to the river i hiked the jungle trail really cool trees and sounds i saw a little python on the trail but it ...

... i was forced to take it much wider than normal ending up off the edge of the pavement, and onto the "warning track" of gravel, rubbing my footpegs up against the guard rail at about 60 km/hr....just the kind of metal on metal sound u dont want to hear when u are driving a 2 wheeler...i made it sucessfully around the corner with no injuries or accident, and once again was jolted back to reality...."do i really wanna kill myself on the first real day of ...