Suggested itinerary and travel plans for Palawan

Map illustrating travel routes in the Philippines: a blue path for flights from Manila to Coron, a dotted white path continuing for island hopping adventures in Palawan, and a yellow path highlighting ferry and boat tours from Manila to Puerto Princesa via San Vicente and El Nido.

Synopsis The Palawan area of the Philippines is the nicest, most natural, safe and devoid-of-typhoons area in the country. And the Puerto Princesa > El Nido > Coron to Manila corridor is rapidly growing as a favourite tourist route. If you are short of time, such as 12 days or less, and you like pristine … Read more

Volunteer program

If you would like free accommodation in tent and half price off renting any equipment (if not used by guest), please apply through the usual websites such as workaway or helpx. Below is an old autoresponse for applying volunteers, to give you an idea. Here is a video submitted by one volunteer: And here’s a … Read more

Party in Manila, Ozzie brings 2 kiteboards

Back in Palawan when I was researching things to do in Manila for my website, I came across one blogger who wrote about visiting the slums. Horrid pictures of children wading up to their lips in black muck scrounging the city’s garbage in exchange for a bite to eat that day. Thought it could make … Read more

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