Apr 4, '10, 12:08 AM
hey hey! spent the last 5 days in the last frontier, Palawan. In puerto prinsesa to be exact! well, that was a beautiful place:D
Tuesday- my family and i left the house at around 9am and went to the new airport. yep, terminal 3. i appreciate the peace and aesthetic of terminal 3 because the old airports suck. this new one's very spacious and it looks like the one in sg. we flew through AirPhil Express. our flight was delayed but no biggie. at around 12:30pm we boarded the plane and around 2:30pm we were in Palawan.
first stop: palawan wildlife rescue and conservation center. it's where they farm/pet crocodiles. they have this really huge croc that reaches almost 7 ft high. it also houses different animals found in palawan.
second: IWAHIG. this is a prison. yes. people can go there. tourists are allowed to go inside. iwahig is a huge vast land that is allotted for the rehabilitation of prisoners all over the philippines. personally, if i ever commit a crime i would want to be imprisoned here because i think compared to the jails in the city, this one is clean and prisoners are allowed to live normally--they can't go out of iwahig though.
third: baker's hill. nothing to see here. their bread was nothing but ordinary. i didin't even get why the tour guide showed it to us. haha:D
fourth: we went to this place owned by the MITRA's. also nothin to see in here but the Hunda/Honda Bay -- which we went on our 3rd day.
Then, we went to the resort that we stayed in, Blu Sky Resort. That was a 2 hour drive from the city.
And that was it for our first day.
Wednesday
we woke up at around 5:30 am. drove for almost 4 hours to go to Sabang. this place reminds me of Puerto Galera. nice beach. we took a boat ride to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park. the tour guide said a lot about this very beautiful but i didn't really heard everything because i was in awe when i saw the rock formations and i was trying to see the different creatures that was leaving in that place. plus, i was busy protecting my cam because we were in water. The only thing that the tour guide said that kind of made smile was the fact that the filipinos weren't the first people who explored the place. it was the americans. the filipinos thought that there were evil spirits in the cave so they didn't bother to go inside. how superstitious of us.
but do not fret, you guys can check out this out for more info:
http://www.new7wonders.com/n7w/nature/finalists/puerto-princesa-underground-river/
After that we went to the city, bought dinner then went back to the resort.
Thursday
we woke up at around 7am. hit the road and went to Honda Bay. this is probably my favorite place out of all the places we've been.
Pandan Island
at around 11 am we reach this island. our tour guide prepared lunch while we went for a swim. What i like about this place is there were tropical fish all over the shore. as in just in the shoreline. no one has to go in the middle of south china sea just to the some snorkling and fish feeding. really beautiful. After lunch, another boat ride and we were in Snake Island.
Snake Island
Snake Island is named as such because of it's snake like shape. it's like Pandan Island but with bigger fish. there were really huge parrot fish, the one's in the nemo movie were also there but bigger. it's very beautiful. oh, and i think i burnt my back real badly in this island.
and off to our resort.
Friday
This was our free day. we did fishing in the resort's speed boat. that was the first time i was very scared of the water. the water wasn't that calm and there were huge waves.
at around 12 we went to this really tiny island. as in there was only sand in the middle of the sea. it was the cutest thing. it's part of the Isda Sombrero Islands. Before Ondoy, it was almost a real island, but when the huge waves hit it it became a really tiny islet.
that's about it.
Saturday
we went home. and flew with AirPhilExpress and they were late ones again!
will tell you other funny moments some other time:D
ps.. i did an avp because.. err i didn't want to sleep for the rest of the day so yes. there you go:D
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