Eli Cave

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About a five minute boat ride from San Miguel, you can hire a boat for about 1,500p to explore these caves and then two other islands for some fantastic snorkeling. A local Japanese Filipino can give you a guided tour of the caves. To get here you can join or book one of our private custom Palawan … Read more

Pros and Cons

This page was originally written for a camp I used to run, but it can apply if you’d like to camp on a deserted island or tent on a beach as part of our island hopping boat tours between El Nido and Coron. If you would like to camp with your loved one or family … Read more

Colloidal Silver

The reason I wanted to give this substance a try is because I had been struggling with a wart on my foot for almost two years. For half a year I had tried everything possible, including big pharma, as you can see from the pictures on this facebook album. Until I got desperate enough to … Read more

Second shopping spree – main hut on its way

Some important improvements during this period. One massive drag of the mountain internet café was that it took half an hour before I would cool down enough and sweat stopped dripping down my arms so that I could begin working on the computer. There was almost no wind, flies would tickle their way relentlessly along … Read more

Exploring the island with GPS

Shot of the entire island as I was exploring all the paths I could find. The kitesurfing resort is at the end of the red trail on the far right. The town of San Miguel is visible on the island of Linapacan to the left. Hash House Harriers are welcome to join me for a jog … Read more

Getting Set Up – more details

[letter to mom] Just got a $95 job to translate a 13 minute intro to a Czech reality TV show where some people will be chosen to live for two months like our predecessors, under Hitler I think – uncertainty if there will be food on the dinner table, no internet, no hot water or … Read more

Getting Set Up

I ordered a cab to take me the next morning to the bus terminal, because I imagined I had too much stuff to fit into the single motorized tricycles they mostly use as taxis here. The dispatcher suggested renting a van all the way, but that was too costly for my liking. In the evening … Read more

And kitesurfing it is!

The community development was a nice idea, but after spending a year dreaming about starting, I decided I didn’t want to wait for others and just start building. If the kiting beach will not work out, I have other options, although they will be more difficult – mostly because there is no mobile signal for … Read more

Barangonan

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  Located just to southwest of Linapacan, this is just another jewel with endless beaches and friendly people. Here were were treated to a nice meal from the village’s captain.   Children drying fish on the ever so present village basketball court.