Blogs from El Nido, Palawan, Philippines, Asia - page 11

Efforts to explain gravity have been carried out by various civilizations since at least the eighth century BC in India. Since then the Greeks, the Arabs and the Persians along with various others have all had a shot at explaining why fruits falling from trees go down rather than up. In 1687 Isaac Newton hypothesized the inverse-square law of universal gravitation which was later slightly updated by Einstein's law of general relativity. Anyway, enough of that. We all know that everything, everywhere exerts a gravitational pull on everything else, the biggest pull being exerted by the planet itself, hence why anything you drop falls down instead of up. Every molecule, every atom everywhere must obey these rules. But not, apparently, in the Bacuit Archipelago. Our boat sails past a mountain of twisted, jagged limestone structures protruding ... read more

I'm used to do only one entry per place...and Miniloc is just 30 minutes by boat to Lagen Island. A fun transfer, as you put your swim suit one, and let the staff take care of everything else. 30 minutes...plus the sighting of dolphins, sorry, they were just a little too far away for great pics. A first sighting for Ma'ri...and the comment of Leslie...well... guess...Papa, they were a lot more in Maldives last year...spoiled kid! Lagen is supposed to be more luxury than Miniloc. To put it straight, the staff in Miniloc were so amazing, than us and some other guest ended "imported with them" some of the staff from Miniloc. But our room....wow...above the water....overwater bungalow...a first for me...and for Ma'ri and Leslie... 1st of October was a special day for us. Ma'ri and ... read more

... two nights down at Puerto Princesa City, gawwwwd how time flies, how drunk i was last night at this place called Kinabuch, mighty hard house concoction they made me drink, smokers delight they call it oh man that did me ... did me wrong but in a sweet way hahaha so we have to drag ourselves damn early to catch our bus to .. to .. EL NIDO yey! was sooo looking forward to this leg of the trip as i heard so much raves about it, so anyway half awake half thinking what to wear we made it to the bus terminal, we are prepared to ride for 10 hours in a bus, no aircon - no less, dusty, rough road, with 2 pepsi and brandy in our bags ;) but we thankfull found ... read more

Well it’s bloggin time again…it’s not always the easiest thing to do, but since it’s the closest thing to responsibility I have right now...I really can't complain! After the last blog entry, we checked out the market in Puerto Princesa. Lots of colours and characters, and lots to take in. It’s always amazing to see “what’s for dinner.” Everyone loved showing off their catch, produce and products and tried their best to explain what it was to these two tourists! The next day we left Puerto Princesa and headed north to the small town of Roxas to take a boat to Coco-Loco Island. This place is amazing, less then 2 km around, beautiful beaches for swimming and relaxing, coral and snorkeling right off the shore, great food, and rustic native cottages. We spent 4 nights there ... read more

The journey to El Nido We were up bright and early for our journey to El Nido, and only worried slightly when we put our backpacks on the jeepney an hour before we were due to leave and the driver promptly drove off with our bags still in the vehicle, leaving us in the street wondering if he was going to come back! Deciding not to worry we headed to Judy's and had some breakfast, and were relieved to see the jeepney drive past us back to it's starting location. We decided to stop off at the local shop to buy some supplies for the journey ahead of us and were introduced to a boy who made strange shrieking monkey noises and liked to stroke our arms! Sadly, it turns out that the boy had been ... read more