Palawan, El Nido

Okay so we will put pictures up but this is where we are at this winter vacation.
Doug and I have traveled from Subic Bay to Manila by our car...that we call Lady Liberty (representing our freedom) to Manila on the 19th. We then took a flight from Manila to an Island off the west coast of the "mainland" called Palawan. Here are a few things you need to know about this island. There are not huge resorts here and if you look this place up and see there is a huge resort, that my friend is a lie. The resort would be a huts. Kind of...with rooms with fans, rooms with aircon. We opted to pay more and stay in a room with aircon. (side note we are not staying in anythign that is close to resort, like we would pay those prices. HA) Now another thing you need to know is that there is only electricity from 2 in the afternoon until 6 a.m. the next morning. So aircon only at that time, and charging stuff and what not only at that time. Enough said? Just giving you an idea. There are not many cars but something called a trike....which you get around on.

Alright so we get in like at 7 on the 19th to Puerto Princesa and we stay at this place called the Deep Garden Forest Hotel. It is funny, seriously with large statues and weird looking stuff all over. The ride there well let's just say all I could think about was where the hell is this guy taking us. Down this dark dirt road with no lights and huge pot holes. Well we made it. And checked in and then headed to this restaurant called Kinabachu (or something like that) where we had blue marlin, dark negra beer, garlic prawns, green papaya salad. It was amazing. Very cheap too. Then we went back to the hotel and crashed. Seriously crashed. The next morning we had to get up early to catch a van that would take us about 6 hours to get to El Nido far up north......little did we know.

We wake up the next morning and get ready to go. And here comes the rains. Deluge. Couldn't even see outside. And all we could think was well at least it is cooler than it has been. Our van was suppose to be there by 7ish. Let's just say it wasn't. And that it the next story we will be telling. The van ride, the snifflier, the snorer, the tiny toilets, and the road that took us to El Nido.