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Published: September 24th 2011
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Waking up I had no idea whether the boat would be leaving to go to El Nido or not it is one of the most dangerous boat trips in the Philippines and often canceled due to bad weather and we had had a whole night of rain and it was still raining. After asking at the reception I found out it was fifty fifty chance. So I packed my stuff, went out to buy food and crossed my fingers. While out buying food I bumped into one of the captions who told me the boat would be leaving at 9am whoo! Sat waiting in the restaurant area to be told which boat or any info really the caption came in about 915 saying we needed to get on the boat as they wanted to leave, oops.
The boat trip took about 7hrs and was kind of eventful, we got wet, some people very wet. Eventhough they had material that came over the side of the boat, the front was still open and big waves just kept coming through and the sides too. After starting to eat my lunch that I had brought from the market the staff came around
offering everyone packed lunches, or well it saved for dinner
Arriving in El Nido Stella and myself stayed in the second pension we found, a room for only 300p we couldn't complain even towels included. After a quick refresh and a walk around the town to see what it had to offer we found an Arabian cafe that had free wifi, good fresh mango juice and really comfy chairs so we settled down there for the rest of the evening. What to do tomorrow was a big question. The weather wasn't looking very good for island hopping, they wanted to charge 900p for a trip to the small waterfall and I've seen alot of waterfalls so I wasn't paying 900p to see a small one. And it wasn't known as one of the best spots for diving. So what to do.
In the end when I got up to rain in the morning I decided to do postcards, learn some Indonesian, look at some plans and have a better look around the town, meet some of the locals.
El nido is a very small town but had a beach and plenty to offer, the villages just outside
of the main tourist area seem alot poorer than the town its self looks, it seems the tourists money hasn't even reached these. But the Philippines is decades ahead of Indonesia from been more westernised to having fresh drinking water other than from bottles. And even in El Nido the locals don't shout you all of the time. That night I had noodles for dinner and Stella brought me back a very chocolaty pancake that she couldnt manage to eat, how i dont know yummy.
In the morning I walked to the bus station to catch the 7am bus to Puerto Princesa even at the bus station there wasn't a dozen trouts harass you it was easy. The bus was old and going to make a very uncomfortable maybe 6 maybe 9 hr trip though.
Most of the trip was uneventful but that wouldn't have been fun. Luckily it wasn't for too long but one of the guys got on the bus and sat next to me and wanted to talk! Deciding he loved me he tried to get me to get off the bus at his stop have lunch with him and take a later bus. Er
i dont think so mate! It didn't matter even if I put my headset in he still wanted to talk, the girls infront smiled at me later saying I had a little problem sat next to me, you think! But he soon got off an I was left in peace again.
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