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Travel Blogs from Puerto Princesa
Palawan, the Last Frontier
Palawan is an archipelago in itself -- the Last Frontier. Palawan is home to the internationally recognized wonder of nature, the Subterranean River. This province has a lot to offer both to locals and foreigners who are looking for a great encounter with nature and adventure.
Its are first grand vacation together and at time of writing, it …
Penang to Puerto
By Joanna
Had it been a clear day on the tip of Borneo a month ago instead of a flood bruised sky, we might have been able to see the bottom of Palawan, the western most province of the Philippines. At the time, I was too busy chatting to a sunburnt Cockney taxis driver who prompted me to tell him three times that London was the best city …
Too Touristy
... buffet lunch was pitiful to say the least, with a very small selection (4 dishes) of cold lackluster food presided over by a sullen server who did no more than scowl as she handed us our "plates": a circular sheet of banana leaf on a round rattan platter. But with a captive crowd of dumb tourists like us, why should they do better?
We tried to sit on our own in a desperate attempt to avoid lunching with Le Loudmouth, but another sullen server swiftly shooed ...
City Tour in Puerto Princesa
... We also toured all cages but we found those animals and birds hidden because of heavy rain.
Less than an hour, we left the farm and proceed to Mitra's Ranch on where the provincial governor mansion situated and sighted islands in Honda bay. There are so many local tourists on that site having fun with series of zip line. Anyway, we didn't stay there for so long, we headed to Baker's Hill which is few minutes away from the ranch. We toured the bakery ...
Rum and... Rum
... math and problem solving: how many bottles of rum should Amanda buy to keep her stocked until Time's return to the Philippines around November? The target number was determined to be 26. 26! The initial purchase of six bottles had been made during our Wednesday excursion into town. The remaining 20 would come over the next few days. We also had to trade in our crate of empty San Miguels for a new (and hopefully less flat) one.
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