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UPDATE – El Nido Coral
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 5 February 2012
We just received this very detailed letter from one of our readers named Johnny, who took the time to update us on the condition of the coral in El Nido on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. If you were following our blog while we were traveling through Palawan, you might remember that our [...]
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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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A Serpent in Paradise
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 3 May 2010
The labyrinth of reef-fringed karsts around El Nido, Palawan, must be one of the best island-hopping destinations in the world. Whether above water or under it, we’ve had the most amazing couple of days. A little too amazing for the camera I bought in Vientiane, making that two cameras down in under four months, so [...]
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El Nido
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 2 May 2010
After a few weeks in the Philippines, one becomes almost inured to beauty. Almost, but not quite, for El Nido, in the north of Palawan, really does take your breath away. It’s named for the swifts’ nests which snuggle within the gothic cliffs that cast a shade so deep the backstreets need streetlights of an [...]
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Maritime Woes
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 29 April 2010
There are many things unique and wonderful about the Philippines. But the boatmen here are phenomenal in many of the wrong ways. Right now, sat in utter serenity on a perfect crescent of a beach (me) and scaling a coconut palm (Z), the various unpleasantnesses of the morning feel like serendipity in action. All the [...]
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Who needs Thailand?
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 10 February 2010
Everyone’s seen pictures of the towering limestone islands of Thailand’s Andaman coast. It seems like most of the world has been there too. The similar landscape of Ha Long bay in Vietnam is getting almost as famous these days (in the UK at least especially thanks to the famous episode of Top Gear which ends [...]
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