Palawan Discovery 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 ...

Arrived in Puerto princesa witch as far as i know is the biggest city in Palawan. The first night we didn't do much, had dinner at the restaurant hotel and went out to check the town. We went to a shabby club called Cookie's but no guest were there, so instead we ended up in a small bar closer to downtown and watched a fire show.

There we also med a guy who worked at our hotel called Brian and he became our guide in the philippine nightlife. After ...

Finally I had some time to relax. I spent four nights in this paradise. First day I went diving. The sea was pretty rough, which made it a bit uncomby getting in and out of the water and chiefly underwater during the second dive. All five divers were of advanced level, that allowed us to go deeper, we sank down to 25m. Reasonable diversity or fish and corals made them average dives. Low price and high standard of service were taken for granted.
A must-do ...

... blocked every particle of light from the evening sky. I couldn't even find the handle to the front door when Andre came by to make sure were had arrived home safely. I found the wall with no problem, but I just kept running my hands up and down the wall with my eyes opened extra wide trying to find the damn door handle! No luck! Oh well. Guess it was time for bed.

Thirty minutes later, I woke up to a medley of the strangest and most frightening sounds ever ...

... immaculate, with nice gardens and a restaurant open bar area that is great. The town is very small only a few restaurant and a few resorts, a long nice beach, and jungle and mountains around. Went for walk on the beach, and found again my friends from Belgium, they could not make it to Port Barton either, They already were there for a couple of days so they gave me the necessary info to go to the Underwater River. The easy way is to pay $200 pesos permit, then ...

... Din** poisson grille, top bon. Lorena met Bob Marley en boucle. Stand up for your rights ! je connais par coeur. Puis comme il y a quelques francais, elle trouve un Jean-Jacques Goldman qu'elle met en boucle egalement. Comme toi, comme toi... Lat** Eric... Moi je m'en fous, j'ai un sup** bouquin a finir (V**onique Olmi, jamais gais gais ses ecrits a celle-ci !). Quelques bi**es et toujours Bob Goldman et JJM. Ca plane, ca discutaille. Lat** will be nev**. La nuit, ca ...

Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous n'avions pas d'internet a Basang (voir la suite, desole). Donc si nous recapitulons. Nous avons quitte Manille le 8 fevrier pour Puerto Princessa. C'est situe sur une grosse ile qui s'appelle Palawan. Nous avons eu un vol de 50 min et pas trop de brassage malgre le typhon de la veille. Nous avons prit un bus qui nous a amene a Basang. Un charmant village sur le bord de la mer. Des ...

... we politley declined and retired to bed! 09/03/07 Finding Nemo After a fairly good nights sleep got up and decided to go Island hopping, so went for Breakfast at a place called Judy's which turned out to be a great little place serving a great brekkie, mmmm hash brown, and then went and sorted out a boat. We decided on the 3 islands we would like to visit and began sailing out to Aquarium Island. We stopped just off shore of the island and I went ...

... apart for a day, he got a haircut and shaved off his beard! Who knows what will happen this time? Or, who knows what kind of trouble I might make all alone in Bangkok? We're staying at Steve's apartment again, a generous gift that means our stay in Bangkok will probably feel like it's not long enough. We are planning to stay a couple days before going down the Thai peninsula, maybe by train, to Kuala Lumpur.

... in line in front of me. I thought I'd better read the emergency instructions if it was going to fall in my hands to wrench the window open in case of emergency. Truthfully, I was feeling like my skills may need to be called upon, although the diagram of slipping off the plane wing actually looked like fun. One of the funnier commands was to hold your hanky over your nose and mouth to stop breathing in smoke. I'm not entirely sure how effective that would be ...