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Published: February 16th 2008
Dinner?
Puerto MarketWell 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 and loved every minute! (Note to other travelers: The Lonely Planet entry is wrong. In LP it says it’s P12,000 per person per day, when it’s actually only P1,550 ($50) per person, per day including all meals and transfers - excellent value for what you get, especially compared to the other private island resorts around Palawan.) I’ll let the pictures do the talking….
Fish Tails
Bottoms Up!
Puerto Market After Coco-Loco, we returned to Roxas and after a minor incident with a private van company that tried to trick us to not take the (cheaper) public bus, Kels and I squeezed onto a totally overloaded bus (Kels shared a 3-seater with 3 other people, and I sat on a 16liter bucket of motor oil in the aisle) and we headed to the far northern end of Palawan - El Nido.
El Nido is a little town, mostly catering to tourists, that is the departure point to the Bacuit Archipelago. Know as the “last frontier” this group of islands and islets that dramatically jut out from the ocean is absolutely stunning, often compared to Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, or Phi Phi in Thailand. One day we rented a Kayak which was a lot of fun, except for when we found ourselves in a “jellyfish current” with hundreds of jellyfishes the size of basketballs all around us (Kels didn’t like that), but once away from the jellyfishes we explored a few beautiful beaches and were amazed by the jagged cliffs of the islands. The following 2 days we took Bangka boat tours to a few of the islands
in the archipelago, exploring lagoons, beaches and snorkeling sites. The scenery is like nothing else I have ever seen, “beautiful” would only be the beginning of describing it. We stayed 5 nights, and could have stayed longer, but with wet weather on the horizon we decided to say good by to El Nido and took the 5am bus back to Puerto Princesa. The 250km, 7 hour drive (yeah, that’s only an average of 35km/hr - that’s how bad the road is) was tough, but El Nido is worth it.
Now we are in Puerto and getting ready to fly to Manila to see the rice terraces in the north (North Luzon) and hopefully find some surf in South Luzon.
Keep the news and the udates from home coming, we love hearing from everyone!
Until next time....
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maureen
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I'm soooo jealousssss!!! Looks like you two are having a wonderful adventure...fortunate souls!! love, maureen (ainslie)