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More fun pic: Calauit, Palawan
Blog: First-time Traveler - 18 March 2012
Calauit seemed to be a forgotten island. It had its share of fame during the Marcos administration when it was developed as an animal sanctuary. Yes, animals roam freely here and they have a Savannah where they can gather during the day. It’s a long boat ride to this island and not many animals are … Continue reading »
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More fun pic: Coron Bay
Blog: First-time Traveler - 29 January 2012
The crystal clear waters, the limestone formations, the corals — they seem to paint Coron Bay into a picturesque paradise. Indeed, it is a paradise. Having been there, I would love to spend another week or more to savor every inch that Coron has to offer. More so, it is not crowded with tourists. It’s … Continue reading »
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Kayaking and Snorkeling Palawan
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 July 2010
Craving a little more adventure, Tony and I have been exploring Palawan’s beautiful coast by sea kayak. From the karst-enclosed coves of Coron Island to the hidden beaches of El Nido, we have been paddling to discover Palawan beyond the tourist bangka tours. As you can see in the video, it was well worth the [...]
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Cargo Boat to El Nido
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 11 July 2010
After a fantastic time in Coron, we were ready to move on to El Nido, a small coastal village on the neighboring island of Palawan. Our search for transportation, however, left us in a foul mood. Everyone in town was pushing us to make the 6-hour trip in a small wooden bangka, and it was [...]
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Barracuda Lake
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 9 July 2010
Barracuda Lake is considered by many to be one of the world’s most unique dives. A surreal, sensory experience from moment one, the underwater exploration is more about what you feel than what you see. Our dive master summed it up best when he said, “If you could do one dive naked, this would be [...]
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Coron Island Jellyfish
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 7 July 2010
Everything on Coron Island is pure magic. Even the jellyfish are more spectacular. Share this post:
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Coron Island
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 5 July 2010
Sitting here in our Busuanga stilt house recovering from our wreck dives, the second major reason to visit the region is clearly visible on the horizon. Dramatic and mysterious, Lonely Planet describes mystical Coron Island best when it says, “It wouldn’t be out of place in a King Kong film.” Ominous walls of jungle-covered black karst [...]
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Sunset Over Coron Town
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 4 July 2010
Just another Busuanga sunset for our visitors. Share this post:
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The Wrecks of Busuanga
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 June 2010
For divers in the know, Busuanga Island is synonymous with world-class wreck diving. Often labeled the Truk Lagoon of the Philippines, the channels between Busuanga and Culion are home to a number of impressive wrecks from a Japanese supply fleet bombed in September, 1944. Thomas and I started by diving the Kogyo Maru and the Tangat [...]
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Busuanga and Krystal Lodge
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 27 June 2010
We’ve fled Manila and made our way to Coron Town on the remote island of Busuanga (even the name sounds great). As we mentioned in our posting on the Alma Jane, our new-found love of wreck diving made it clear that we were Busuanga bound. In addition to the wrecks, mysterious nearby Coron Island and fantastic [...]
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A First-time Traveler’s 3 Best Kept Secret Islands
Blog: First-time Traveler - 27 May 2010
With more and more people traveling nowadays, getting to a place where others have never been before has become quite a challenge. As I become more connected with other travelers, I observe that those who come to Southeast Asia often bypass my country. It should be a cause for worry but I realize that travelers, [...]
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Full Fathom Five…
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 13 May 2010
There is a sepulchral magic to a shipwreck. Viewed from underwater, with russet filigrees of sea ferns flourishing on the fractured edges of a shell hole in the side, lettuce corals unfurling from a rusting crane, the gossamer fins of lionfish undulating like silken flags outside a propshaft, a wreck is one of the most [...]
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Learning to Dive
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 9 May 2010
We are still in Coron. That’s Coron Town, the meandering if unbeautiful little port of Busuanga Island, not Coron, the island, across the way. As is the thing to do in the Calamians, we’ve been diving. There are many amazing things about scuba. There is the feeling of weightlessness — neutral buoyancy — whereby you [...]
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Kirche Kuche Kinder
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 9 May 2010
Every so often, while eavesdropping — or, perhaps, a more polite term is, err, “people-watching” — one comes across conversations that one, quite literally, couldn’t make up. Ever since we met Klaus in Marinduque, I’ve been interested in those mutually advantageous marriages that a certain type of gentleman procures in the Philippines, and elsewhere in [...]
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Cargo Boats and Commandos
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 8 May 2010
I’m a great fan of authenticity in travel. Travelling, where possible, as the locals do, which, given the wealth divide in the Philippines, means either with the driver(s) in the chauffeur’s seat(s), and the maid(s) and/or nanny(s) looking after the nippers, or (on our budget) by a spectacular range of public transportation. Now, cargo boats [...]
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Banana Island
Blog: Hi and Thank You - 23 March 2010
It began as a single night camping trip to an uninhabited private island, but in the end was a 5-day/4-night stay on Banana Island, a small island populated by the Philippino family who owns it, with a couple of huts and a rustic pavillion for day trippers. We paired up with Santiago and Paula, a [...]
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First-time in Black Island
Blog: First-time Traveler - 16 February 2010
Nothing prepared me for the surprise I’d find in my first-time at Black Island. Part of our Calauit tour in Palawan was some stopovers at islands around Busuanga. A short distance away from Calauit was Black Island, where the Slovenian franchise of Survivor, Survivor Srbija: Philippines, shot some of their episodes. Black Island loomed from [...]
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£14 to fly to Paradise
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 5 February 2010
I was going to fly straight to El Nido in Palawan, but 6,000 pesos was a little steep – and then someone pointed out that it was only 995 pesos (about 15 quid) to fly to the island of Busuanga, just to the north of Palawan, and that made the decision for me. I hadn’t planned [...]
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First-time in Calauit Island
Blog: First-time Traveler - 21 December 2009
As Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Marty the zebra, and Gloria the hippo escaped to Madagascar and to Africa, we also had a little escapade of our own into a small island in the Calamian group in Palawan, called Calauit. It’s a wildlife sanctuary created by the Philippine government. photo by: Claire Marie Algarme Since we [...]
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First-time in Coron
Blog: First-time Traveler - 16 December 2009
Coron is one of the must-see places in my list of destinations within my home country, the Philippines. Together with Busuanga, Culion, and several islands, they form the Calamian group of islands in the northern tip of the Philippine province of Palawan. Though not as hyped as Bali or Boracay or Phuket or any beach destination [...]
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