March 29th - April 2nd
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| Relaxing at Manilla airport |
It was a horrible time of the flight to get here, out of KL 1:20 and into Manilla at 05, that do not leave much time to sleep on the plane, but I managed to get a bit, close to 3 hours, and that kept me going the next day. Btw, I only changed plane in Manilla, and was on my way to Puerto Princesa at 08:10 and arrived safely at the hostel around 10. Had to wait a bit to get the room, and I got my self comfortable at a hammock waiting for a bit. The hostel is nice, very nice and welcoming family that runs it, and they also live here, the hole family with their kids.
The hostel have been social, talked to other people at the hostel from like China, Holland and even from Norway. Have not been out dining or anything with any, but have gotten the social contact that I need, which not always is that much. Btw, it is here on Palawan the plan was to travel with Denise from Switzerland (we met at Easter Island in 2009), which would have been nice and different for me, as the lonsome traveller that I am.
It is crazy hot here, and even if I keep coming back to SE Asia, it seams like I forget how warm it is for me down here, just dripping dripping sweaty hot. At the moment I do not even have a AC, and I do not know if I have it when I come to El Nido, hope so.
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| Fish in my fish soup |
A few opservations from this days I have been here, tryed some local food, but have so far not found anything very good. Had steak, but it was boiled with lot of fat still on it, not my taste. Fish soup, good soup, but it was two hole fish in it, so had to clean them out. But it is cheap to eat and to take a treecycle, the local motorcycle taxi. Security seems very high many places, even some resturants have armed guards in the door, not used to that from other places I have been. I can sort of understand that McDonald have armed guards, it will most likly stop people complaining about the food, and make sure that thay finish their Big Mac. :)
I have during my driving around on the motorcycle also noticed that they are very welcoming here, I have never before seen prisons with big "Welcome" sign over the gate before. Pretty amazing. I sort of felt like stopping and ask if one could visit, but I was a bit affraid that I would not be allowed to leave again. That is also why I did not stop and took photos of the prison, not always that it is popular to take photos of official building like policstation, army facilities, borders and maybe also prisons.
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| Out on the motorcycle |
The big thing to see here, and why many come here, is the Underground river in Sabang, it can be difficult to get a visiter permit, but I managed to get one for April 17th, the day before I fly out to Singapore again. I have also rented a motorcycle for 3 days here in PP, got if for 500 PPs (72 NOK) per day, which is a good price. I have been driving it a bit around, also took the trip up to Sabang, around 80 km on way from PP. Did not do anything there, just had lunch, the fish soup and took some photos and went back. Filled the day and was a good ride.
Next stop, and it will most likely be a long one, is El Nido, up north on the island. I have planned to stay there for 2 weeks, and have all my hotels booked and payed for, so I better like it. They have dive shops up there, but I do not think the diving is very good, but I will check it out anyway, then I know. I have also found a company orgazing kayaktrips to the islands with sleeping in tents, and that is for sure an option. One of the challenges in El Nido is that they do not have any ATM´s there, and that mean that I have to carry a lot av cash to do the fun stuff, and it is also one of the reason that I have paid all my sleeping online, since that for sure gives the biggest bill.
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| Crocodile sanctuary |
On my last day for this time in PP, I stopped at the crocodille farm, which also had some other animals captured, and it was most likely the sadest zoo I ever have seen, very runned down. About the croc´s they said that they was releasing them back to nature after some time, and that all the croc´s was animals that they have taken from people that had them unlawfully. Hope so.
Thats all for now, my first blog ever from the Philippines. :)
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| Sabang beach |
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| Wild life park at the Crocodile farm. |
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