20 boat journey from Coron to Manila

Trip Start Nov 01, 2006
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Coron was probably one of the most beautiful places we have visited so far, but eventually it was time to leave. Well it was time to try and leave. We thought we'd get a boat south to El Nido and check out that place. There's only one company that sails there so we went to their office and it was closed - all day everyday. There was a phone number taped outside so we called it and had the following conversations:
Saturday Call -
Elliot: Hello we'd like to find out when the next boat to El Nido is going please?
Person: Not sure, it might be Tuesday or it might not.
Elliot: OK, when will you know for definate if it leaves on Tuesday
Person: Monday, we will know for sure on Monday
Monday Call -
Elliot: Hello we'd like to find out if the boat is still going to El Nido on Tuesday
Person: No it's not, but it might be going on Friday
Elliot: But you don't know for sure that it will go on Friday
Person: No, we will know for sure on Thursday.. A refugee camp (no sorry that's just our boat)
A refugee camp (no sorry that's just our boat)
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Anyway you get the picture.
So we decided to get a boat in the other direction back to Manilla. We got the boat with our friends Mike and Charmaine who we'd gone on the amazing boat trips with and it was quite fun really. Luckily we paid the extra 1 pound each to get a better bed otherwise we would have ended up in the army style cots in the bottom of the ship with all the cargo (which seems to be fish). We were of course the only westerners on the boat but 'rum in a bag' came to our rescue and we were fed fish and rice every few hours so the 20 hours flew by. Time to say goodbye to Mike & Charmaine and head off.
In all honesty we didn't really want to spend more time in Manilla so it was straight off to the airport to jump on a plane to Bangkok. There was a bit of drama when we didn't think they were going to let us buy the tickets we had booked (Elliot sorted that out with more diplomacy and less cutting remarks than I would have done) and we left the ipod on the plane, but we arrived safely in Bangkok at 4.30am.
So where to go now....
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