Niko's Cabanas & Restaurant 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 ...

... into the water the better and colourful fish you see. I saw about several black fish and tiny dory fish too. I kept on feeding them.

Later we decided to have some lunch. They sold fresh fish at Snake Island. So we bought a fish and a kilo of crabs. They had to cook it first and a man caught a few crabs for mum. We waited about an hour then finally it came. Unfortuanly people were playing volleyball ...

... the only guests staying at the resort that week. Apparently, everyone else had done their rainy season homework. We sat down on the bed and just looked at each other. Yep, we just looked at each other with slouched shoulders. When we finally did speak it was only in whispers. It was so quiet and we felt our loud city voices would be inappropriate or disturb the balance. "So....what do you want to do now?"......."Not sure." (Ha!) We contemplated securing another van back to ...

... cold is really developing. It seems Rowan is a day ahead of me and the others are a day behind as I have to go to El Nido now but everyone I know has either just ariver or just left so I am off on my own. I got up at 5am and was about to leave for the cheaper bus option when an aircon van came to pick some poeple up from my Guesthouse to go to El Nido - it only cost a bit more so I jumped in - much easier than I thought! So Now I am off to the suposedly amazing El Nido.

... le sol avec ses pieds !!! Les couples mixtes sont monnaie courante sur Boracay, certains mecs sont vraiment tres vieux, et je ne peux m'empecher de penser, meme si tout le monde a droit a la bagatelle, que ca fait bizarre. Mais bon, tant mieux pour les filles, avec un peu de patience et d'habitude, ils doivent ronfler bien vite les lascars... Gambas sur la plage. Je savoure le privilege de la contemplation, du temps des ...

... petite baignade avec des jellyfish et les puces de sable, en plus des vagues qui vous jette a terre. Donc on ne sais pas baigner trop longtemps. Petit souper, cette fois on avait des voisins sur notre balcon (chambre d'a cote). On etait pas super content. Une pleine lune spectaculaire qui miroitait dans l'ocean avec un halo de lune qui formait un arc-en-ciel autour de la lune, des nuages de toute les formations, les ...

... go further but he put us on the spot and we felt rather ripped off - we figured after that he probably isn't supposed to take people further so he asks for more money to cover his troubles. We probably regretted not taking him up on the offer, although the river was probably much of the same, but after 3 hours on a boat a bit longer down the river would probably have been good. The ride back was really rough and took about ...

... can't get over the size of the teeth on monkeys their almost vampirelike. Well today we took a little 4 person boat to Port Barton in Monster waves from the Typhoon, we all got drenched the swell was massive kinda scarey, but we all made it safely and then checked out some cock fights. Tomorrow i will travel to Elnido to try and catch up with Chad, hope he made it ok he said somthing about maybe trying to bike their. talkto everyone soon Take care"

... in the rain...passing many of the vehicles for the 3 or fourth time(as i was making many stops), i eventually came to a fork in the road, and decided to take the one in the opposite direction to see where it would lead...it wasnt raining yet, so why not??? it eventually took me a river port where many local fishermen were hanging out on the pier and on their boats, eyeing me up and trying to assess what it was i was doing there...after a few photos, and a ...