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Sabang is an easy destination from Puerto Princesa. One could take a bus from San Jose station near Puerto Princesa or can book an underground river tour from Puerto Princesa, do the tour which takes about 2 hours, and then check into the hotel (this is what I did). The undergroung river tour is interesting, the most exciting part for me was getting there by boat which can be pretty exciting. Staying 3 days is about minimum. I met a guy who was going to stay 3 days and he's been there for 3 weeks. The big draw of Sabang is [View Full Entry]

california nut - Ryan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 24th 2009 | 159 Views | [diary=447654]

Getting to Underground River
Uligan Bay
Underground River

El Nido is an 8 hour bus ride from Puerto Princesa or 6 boat ride from Sabang which is how I got there. This is a must see if you are in Palawan. While in El Nido you must do the following 1. Go on an island tour - Tour A, Tour C 2. Rent a kayak from Art Cafe: Start at 8AM for 1/2 day. You will have too much fun and end up paying for a full day but you'll get your money's worth. 3. Rent motorcycles and explore the island. While on motorcycles, hike to the waterfall trail [View Full Entry]

california nut - Ryan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 25th 2009 | 217 Views | [diary=447686]

Tour A
Tour A - lunch spot
Tour A

Puerto Princesa is the capital of Palawan and is where you can take most flights from Manila and Cebu. I stayed at D'Lucky Garden which is close to the airport, offers Wi-fi, accepts credit cards, and has a decent restaurant. Tours can be booked directly from the hotel. Honda Bay was the first tour where you visit 3 islands in one day. I went on a day that started off cloudy with showers and ended up stormy with wind and waves. Lucky for me I remembered my rain jacket which was useful especially with the waves crashing over the bow of [View Full Entry]

california nut - Ryan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 24th 2009 | 139 Views | [diary=447115]

Dock in Palawan
Honda Bay Sea
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By TinNiE
October 12th 2009
Another laid back town Asia » Philippines » Palawan » Coron
3 of the Seven Islands
3 of the Seven Islands
a.k.a. Siete Pecados
I still remember how my Dad used to tell us how he hates riding small propeller passenger planes and I wasn’t expecting that I was gonna ride one today. I could hear the engine roaring outside during the entire flight and the plane making a clumsy stomp when we finally landed at the Busuanga Airport. The flight wasn’t too bad, thanks to the good weather, but I’d still rather ride the Airbus! Our tour guide Ate Cristy and Kuya Joseph (our driver) picked us up at the airport. It’s about 45 minutes ride from the Busuanga Airport to Coron town proper [View Full Entry]

TinNiE - Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness ~ | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 192 Views | [diary=446551]

Boats
Beautiful View
Clear water

(Day 549 on the road) Leaving El Nido was a lot more difficult than anticipated. Ongoing typhoon warnings caused all ferries and flights from El Nido to be cancelled for days on end. I had already booked a flight from the island of Coron, about eight hours north by boat, for the day after tomorrow, and when I found out that the overnight ferry I had been hoping to take was cancelled I was starting to get a bit nervous. Forced to spend another night in El Nido, I was up at seven o'clock the next morning, exploring all the possible [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 9th 2009 | 490 Views | [diary=442569]

My friendly boatman and 8 of his 10 children
Hope it wasn't me that made her cry
Another beautiful bay on Coron Island

(Day 546 on the road) There are places in the world that are just perfect for people taking pictures of them. And then there are places like the Bacuit Archipelago in the Philippines where I am at the moment, that no matter how many pictures you take of them, their true beauty can never be captured in a photograph. This place here is so amazing I sometimes had to pinch myself to believe it is real. I must say that I don't get this feeling too often these days, this feeling of being completely awestruck by a landscape or a sight, [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 7th 2009 | 833 Views | [diary=440947]

Me on our boat at "7 commando beach"
One of countless tiny and deserted bays in the Bacuit Archipelago
Islands in the Bacuit Archipelago

(Day 538 on the road) The guidebook had called Manila airport dirty, chaotic and dark. I was expecting the worst, but instead after arriving here from Taipei I found it super-clean, well sign-posted and modern. Maybe they have recently upgraded it or I arrived at a different terminal? Leaving the airport I braced myself for the usual army of taxi drivers and other hawkers but I found - nothing. Not a single person approached me, and I had time to get my bearings. How nice! Shunning the expensive coupon taxis I took a shuttle bus that took me to a broad [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 6th 2009 | 590 Views | [diary=439099]

On our pump boat exploring Honda Bay
Rainbow around the sun
Storm closing in on Snake Island

Our last night's sleep in Manila was interrupted by the football - Phil set an alarm to wake up for the Champion's League final at 2am! (Luckily we had a TV in our room so Elly was able to dose through it!) Man Utd didn't play well and lost - Phil was not a happy chappy and the day did not improve much from there... Almost straight after the match had finished at 5am we checked out and got a taxi to the airport. We needed to get cash out, as we knew that cashpoints would be almost non-existent on Palawan [View Full Entry]

Travel Blog - Elly + Phil | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 14th 2009 | 559 Views | [diary=407549]

Our Banca Leaving Us in Paradise!
Us on Secluded Helicopter Island
View From Our Beach Hut in El Nido

Einige Zeit ist wieder vergangen und ich bin voll von neuen Eindrücken und Erlebnissen. Mein letzter Eintrag kam aus Panglao Island, wo ich ja hingegangen war um ein bisschen zu tauchen. Und endlich war es auch mal möglich! Mit meinen zwei neuen Reisebegleitern Bojan und Michele, habe ich 5 Tage auf Palawan verbracht und sie haben mir die besten Tauchorte gezeigt, da sie bereits einmal hier waren. Es war wirklich wunderbar! Es gibt so viele verschiedene Fische und Korallen zu bewundern. Es war super schön. Und die Insel Panglao ist ganz nett, wenn auch ein bisschen touristisch, dank den etlich [View Full Entry]

alohaceline - ceLine | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 7th 2009 | 228 Views | [diary=401703]

Me and the fish
Under the sea
Nice creatures under the sea

I've had the privilege of going around my town-by-ancestry Brooke's Point (South Palawan) in 2006 for a photography / design job for its town mayor. The task was to visit all of the town's tourist spots and create a brochure from the resultants. I was not able to post most of the pictures immediately. Sadly it has taken me several years and a couple of jobs to get them all on the net. I'll be using shots off the town market to get the ball rolling. I will be posting the pictures and my recollection (as dim as they now are) [View Full Entry]

Will Dizon - Wilfredo Dizon | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 7th 2009 | 49 Views | [diary=406259]

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