07 Sep 2011
by angkuletin Palawan Tags: Cabu beach, Coron, friends, Lambingan bridge, Palawan, sunset, travel
These are just about the “best” photos I have of Coron from that trip in April 2008. All the rest are just trash. I spent three days in Coron and hopped on to El Nido aboard a boat. My last day in Coron was spent hanging out with locals – friends I had made on my first trip to Coron back in October 2007.
My friend had picked me up at the lodge I was staying at so we can have lunch at another friend’s house in Capayas. We spent the afternoon hanging out at Cabu Beach. We were on scooters and in going to Cabu Beach, my hair had gotten all tangled from the dust. I could not comb it afterwards. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful quiet time by the beach.
Cabu Beach, Coron, Palawan, April 2008
Cabu Beach, Coron, Palawan April 2008
Cabu Beach is not a white-sand beach but it provided a beautiful view of the sea, particularly the route that Super Ferry takes to get to the Coron town port in Busuanga Island.
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12 Jan 2011
by angkuletin Palawan
If I told you I came out of a twenty-six hour boat trip that was only supposed to last six to eight hours, your initial reaction would be pity, amazement, shock, anger, worry, any one of those or all of those at the same time maybe. When I think about it though, I am glad that it happened to me, not for anything else but because it can only happen to a few people in this world, and it had to happen to me.
It started out a pretty normal day. No premonition of a night spent under a starlit sky that could have been well-appreciated, admired through the night, if only I were warm enough. No signs that I’d get burned under a hot sun for hours and go hungry and thirsty.
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11 Jan 2011
by angkuletin Palawan
I have only been to Puerto Princesa City thrice but I feel like I’ve been there more than that. On the plane, I realized that it was the first time I would be arriving at the Puerto Princesa airport. I always flew straight to El Nido and the two times I was in PPC, I took the 8-hr bus ride from El Nido.
Since H and I have been to Puerto Princesa before, we didn’t have to take the City tour anymore. We took the opportunity to explore previously-unexplored areas instead.
Here are the changes that I noticed occurred in the past two years:
- My second-favorite restaurant, Dang Maria’s Main is now closed.
- Sitting next to my favorite restaurant Ka Lui along Rizal Avenue is The Lotus Garden, a restaurant that has an ambience that rivals that of Ka Lui.
- Kinabuchs has now improved and expanded – the monobloc chairs have been replaced and a roof has been built over the previously open space towards the front of the grill and bar.
- There are a lot of new inns to choose from.
- There seems to be a growing number of young “escort girls.†(Too bad!)
- There is now a coffee shop! Itoy’s Coffee Shop is now open. It looks quite an unfriendly coffee shop from Rizal Avenue but it has an open air garden at the back, which of course, we caffeine and nicotine lovers always look for. Coffee is reasonably priced and delicious to boot!
- There seems to be a thriving night life now. There used to be none at all. Night life in El Nido was much better in those days. At least, there was a live music bar (or live music bars during peak season.)
- There are only a handful of multi-cabs amidst the numerous tricycles. When one of the trike drivers was asked why, he said most of the multi-cabs had retired.
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25 Dec 2010
by angkuletin Palawan
… in the Big Lagoon… Miniloc Island, El Nido, Palawan.
El Nido Resorts Christmas Eve Specials - Concert at the Big Lagoon.Photo by Jerduen Dongor
14 Nov 2010
by angkuletin Palawan
Lia and I went to hang out one hot afternoon in Makulay Lodge in Caalan Beach – a lodge and restaurant owned by the Mercado family. There, we met Americans, Mia and Carl, who were staying at the lodge. I had left Lia sleeping in one of the rooms downstairs while I went up to the house up the hill to have a look-see of the new cottage Rose and Del have just finished building.
When I came down, Lia was being entertained by Mia and Carl, who had found her awake when they got back from helping out with collecting Acanthaster (crown-of-thorns starfish). These are photos taken by Carl. I got them off Mia’s FB photos. The two of them are simply adorable! Thanks Mia and Carl!
25 Jul 2010
by angkuletin Palawan
I finally finished my blogs on Lia and I’s trip to El Nido, Palawan last April. It took a long time but I finally finished! One trip crossed out (or checked off) the travel blogs to-do list …and yet more to go!
I had a lot of pictures so I had to separate the entries.
I can do this. One little blog at a time.
Here is a photo of me with my Potter’s Place family, taken at the mess hall right after graduation. You can see some of the togas hanging out in the back… and I still have my long hair… 
25 Jul 2010
by angkuletin Palawan
I finally finished my blogs on Lia and I’s trip to El Nido, Palawan last April. It took a long time but I finally finished! One trip crossed out (or checked off) the travel blogs to-do list …and yet more to go!
I had a lot of pictures so I had to separate the entries.
I can do this. One little blog at a time.
Here is a photo of me with my Potter’s Place family, taken at the mess hall right after graduation. You can see some of the togas hanging out in the back… and I still have my long hair…
16 Jun 2010
by angkuletin Palawan
The first time I went to Coron, I was not even supposed to be there. My flight was supposed to be for Butuan and I had grand dreams of going to Siargao on my own. It was October 2007. There were no direct flights to Siargao then, or even Coron.
But a Philippine Airlines plane had some problem landing on the Butuan airport and flights to the airport were cancelled for the day. We were informed we could fly the next day – but I did not want to go home and unpack my bags only to pack them back again for the next day. I hung around for a few hours hoping to get on any other flight, to no avail. Until I realized, it was a Friday! I knew for a fact a Super Ferry boat leaves for somewhere on a Friday afternoon. I took a cab, told the driver to bring me to the Super Ferry pier, and off I went without a ticket, without knowing where I was headed.
It turns out, the boat was bound for Coron. Among a number of chance passengers who were all locals, I made a friend. Jeff, who regularly goes to Manila to visit his family and buy some vegetables (you’d think he could get those vegetables in Coron but well…), would be my friend for the next week and would introduce me to all his other friends, one of whom, a girl named Hope I would become very close to.
On that first trip to Coron, I did not get to do any sightseeing or island hopping. It was too expensive to rent a boat on my own and by myself. Jeff, together with Hope and her boyfriend, and I instead rented kayaks and kayaked all the way from Sea Dive to Siete Pecados and the Calachuchi snorkeling site – and back. I told myself I’ll come back to do more of those island hopping and stuff.
My second trip to Coron took three days to plan. It involved me googling to look for people who were going on a trip to Coron that weekend, people I could, hopefully, go and split the expenses with. That’s how I found Owen Ferrer and his DIY trip. Owen and I would end up being friends. I spent a total of P1,600 on two-days of island hopping with Owen and his group. That included the overnight accommodations, 2-days worth of lunch and all the fees. That was such a bargain! (And one that would never ever happen again in any of my trips, anywhere LOL)
When I came back to post the photos (wherein I got carried away with the saturation and brightness by the way and to this day I deeply regret, ahem. What can I say? I was trying to find my own art form. And my art form turned out to be something like “making my photos look unlike how they actually were as much as possible”), my newly-made Travel Friends friends saw the photos and suddenly, we were all on Yahoo Messenger conferences. They did not comment on my supposed-art form but they all thought Coron was beautiful and is well worth a trip. Thus, the TF Coron Palawan trip was born.
Friday afternoon, taking a photo of the sunset in Manila Bay
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