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Day 3: City Tour in Palawan

November 11, 2011 our last day in Puerto Prinsesa get-away. Our flight back to Manila is still in the afternoon so we spent our whole day in touring the most visited place in Palawan. That day is very hot and sunny good thing we hire an air-conditioned van that day so that it may be easy access for us to be on the place that we wanted to go, with the help of our guide Kuya Ding he just drove us to the places where tourist usually had stopover. We just leave it all to him, his the one in-charged on where to take us. It's him already ;) (kuya Ding, ikaw na)

First stop is Palawan Museum:

Palawan Museum

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Entering the museum... just like any other exhibit archive it is full of information and history about Palawan itself. You will found artifacts, maps, pots, precious stones, gems (jewelries), instruments and different kind of creations both made by man and nature in the past and in the present.

This are some of the things that you will find in the museum. Just like in Mindanao, Palawan is also rich in culture. This museum was established on the year 1991 and it showcases the history, culture, music, arts, crafts of Palawan.

Having fun inside the museum, I was amazed by the exhibit that they have made inside. Many new learning are in-stored for me about this "Paraiso sa Silangan". It is the best place for students having research work.

The Palawan Museum is easy to be find because it is located in downtown along commercial streets in the city, particularly in Rizal Avenue facing Mendoza Park. In rushing in the museum they will be collecting entrance fees Adults: PhP20. Students: Php10. (college students) Php5. (high-school students). The museum opens from Mondays to Saturdays (9am-5pm).

City Baywalk

A quick glimpse at Palawan's known Baywalk, it is only Me, Honeysol and Gladys who went out of the van just to see their baywak and have picture taking at the place.

This color-fish fish displays is one of the main attraction here in this park because it captivates the tourist attention, and it is a splendid spot for picture taking.

PASALUBONG BUYING...

It is pasalubong buying time for us, there are lots of stuff you will find in their pasalubong store but their best recommended store is the Tiange' especially the Cora Palawan Pearls and Souvenir shop it is located at Tiange-Tiange Lacao cor. Carandang st. and it is also accesible via tricycle. Here you finds find different kinds of accessories, pearls, t-shirts, keychains, handicraft stuffs and the delicacy foods.

LUNCH TIME...

Having lunch @ Balinsasayaw Chicken Grill & Restaurant, we had seafood for lunch and and very yummy desert to follow up with a Buko Gelatin. This place serves good food that will suit your taste and the place has a plus point very alternative type is also covered with green leafy plants on the area. It is one of the most visited restaurant here in Puerto Prinsesa.

The face of the happy eaters... we are very satisfied with the food being served the food is such a thumps up very tolerable. Very sulit!!

Meet Kuya Ding

Ang aming dakilang Tour guide/Driver/Photographer

Thanks for the tour!

Palawan Butterfly Garden

fly fly fly the butterfly....

It is located at Santa Monica, Puerto Prinsesa wita a very cheap entrance fee for just Php20. you may now tour inside the garden, the fees that they collect is the one that they will used in preserving this little species. Indeed this garden has lots of flying species especially butterflies. It is a place for butterfly sanctuary and preserving them. There still different species found here, the garden is not as big as I expected. The place is covered with a net so that the butterflies can fly freely within the area of the conservatory, and because it is a garden you may also noticed different kind of plants particularly green leafy and a plant with blossoms of flowers.

Luckily one of the butterfly stayed in my hand for a while it seems that it loved my smell becuse butterflies do love the blossom smells and it a wonderful experienced for me to be with the beautiful butterflies.

This are some of the living species found in the garden.

Mitra's Ranch

Our tour guide (kuya ding) took us the this nice scenic top view here Palawan the Mitra's Ranch. On our way here we passed by a subdivision of residence and the houses here are mostly mansion type. The Mitra' Ranch is owned by the family of politicians the Mitra's. Inside this ranch you will find a big mansion in a top view highland. It is one the the peaceful place here in Puerto Prinsesa and you'll love the breeze of fresh air. Lot of picture taking happened here.

It is open to the viewing public from 6am-6pm with a Php10. entrance fee.

The famous Petrang Kabayo is here!! hehehe...

We also spare a quick time in taking pictures with the horses.

Baker's Hill

This place smell so good and the smell is so inviting that you wanted to eat again. If your looking for the best Hopia this is the right place to be. Being in this place you may buy sweets and very freshly baked pastries good for pasalubongs. Me myself tasted their hopia and it the best hopia that I ever tasted, simply outstanding.

This establishment has its own unique taste from captivating the tourist attention to be in the said place. It is so persuading, its like your in a mini-Disneyland. You will find tons of popular statues of celebrities, cartoon characters, etc.. and playgrounds for the kids to play with. Both kids and adults would probably like and appreciate this beautiful park.

And now for our final stop:

Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm

This is one of the most popular prison here in the Philippines, it is only the penal institution wherein prisoners are not locked up in a certain sell. It doesn't seem to look like a prison house for me, its more of a society and a village of convicted person living in this farm, wherein you'll see tons of houses wherein the families of the prisoners can actually live with them. the captives ge involved in some industrial and agricultural work here.

Inside the colony you will finds a souvenir shop, what they are selling are souvenir items personally made by the prisoners of Iwahig using only light and indigenous materials. This serves as your donation to them if you buy their items.

You will also be entertained by their very own Iwahig Dancing inmates wherein you may join them in dancing, they are also one of the main attraction in this place in Palawan. In fact one of my friend honeysol join them to dance the "The sign" by: Ace of Base

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And this end our city tour get away here in Puerto Prinsesa, truly it is a tiring experieced but it all really paid of when you yourself see the nice spots in this "Paraiso sa Silangan".

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Iwahig Firefly watching

...continuation of day 2:

Still day 2 in Puerto Prinsesa, after our escapade in the Underground River since it was still early we all decided to go to Iwahig for the Firefly Watching. From Sabang beach our guide Kuya Ding took us to Iwahig, we run for almost 2 hours going to the place during the long drive we've almost reached dark road.

Iwahig firefly Watching,

Mangrove Eco-tourism & Wildlife Park

We reached the Iwahig River, we proceed directly to our assigned paddle-boat and could start with our paddle-boat tour right away. Each boat is only allowed limited passengers because the scope of the said boat is just petty, only 3 passengers plus one boat-man that why we divided the group in each boat on the first boat it was me, Honeysol & Ruth plus our boat-man and on the other boat is the lovers Gladys and Poy so that they could feel the moment, sounds very romantic lovers under the moonlight.

I was very excited because it is a first experience for me to see lots of fireflies and what comes into my mind is that i could witness Firefly Dancing but I got it all wrong, it was just a Firefly watching hehehe....

We were not lucky enough because that moment it is Full moon, our boat man says the best way to see the fireflies even more clearly is when it is 1st or 2nd quarter moon where there is only little moonlight. The darkest it is the more fireflies you will see. We are allowed to take pictures but are no allowed to use the flash of the cameras because it might scare the fireflies away.

We were not able to took the fireflies in action for we are getting hard of taking because we are not allowed to use flash of the camera I am just using the Night-mode feature of my camera but still we couldn't catch any firefly on cam. So i decided not to take pictures anymore but instead I just enjoy watching the fireflies as they glow one by one and even in clusters. From afar you'll see a glowing trees and you will be amazed because they look like a Christmas lights on a Christmas tree especially if they see red light they light even more brighter.

According to the boat-man when the fireflies saw Red-light glow even more brighter because red-light serves as a treat for them for an opponent coming.

There are different kinds of Mangroves found in this river all are properly preserved and well-maintained with also the help of the ABS-CBN foundation who is one of the main sponsor for the rehabilitation of the Iwahig River and preserve the mangroves in fact it was the founder Gina Lopez-Roy is the one who discovered this area and establish it.

After the tour we took pictures, and i was holding the paddle of the boat it was way too heavy. And we wished to take pictures with the pleasing guides/stuffs but they just seemed to disappear during the picture taking.

The tour run for about 45 minutes in a paddle-boat, and I've learned something about our cruise about preserving the environment. Now I know why Puerto Prinsesa is so abundant because of their Eco-friendly living by promoting Eco-Tourism Project.

This place has a uncommon comfort room, kinda creepy all the way here due to the rare of lights but you'll appreciate the uniqueness of what they have done. (go there yourself for you to judge hehehe...)

We ♥ Puerto Prinsesa

Note: You'll enjoy the firefly watching here, plus the good-looking stuffs and volunteers here.. hehehe... ;)

7 wonders of the world

Day 2: Puerto Prinsesa

November 10, 2011 we woke up early getting ready of our whole day escapade. After having breakfast we just wait for our tour guide Kuya Ding to pick us up and were equipped to go. We must keep going early because we need to be registered early so that we can booked our schedule at the underground river upon booking it comes with a first come first served basis because there are also lots of tourist wanted to be at Underground river.

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Its past 8:00 am and we waited for the cashier so that we may pay the fees that we need to pay. It made us wait for almost an hour just waiting for the most punctual cashier. After paying we were given our time schedule and given some instructions about going to Underground river and all systems go to the 7 wonders. Our time schedule is 3pm we are just following the system that they made to avoid inconvenience.

The land travel from the city is approximately almost 2 hours, we traveled to some bumpy, rough and rocky roads but we also passed by some road construction on going for a better run of the wheels. Most of us fell asleep during the long ride without noticing that we almost reach the place.

We arrived at hot sunny day at Sabang Beach in the picture with honeysol, me and gladys taken by ruth. Inspite of the torridness of the atmosphere we are still on the go for it no matter what.

We have reached at Sabang Beach while waiting for our turn of the tour at Underground river we just spent out time here at Sabang Beach.We spent a few hours of swimming and had some lots of fun and a lots of picture taking. We also had our lunch here and gladly we like the food that they served here very tropical.

Welcome to Sabang Beach, this coast has its own unique charm that would make tourist come back all all over the place. It has a huge range of accommodation that would suit any budget and travelers you can buy anything here. Just like what we did we didn't check-in to any of the establishments here or rent a cottages but we just rather stopover and take a seat on the sands only because it is more relaxing with the help of the big trees that serves as our shelter in the area. It is more likely of a picnic type.

We also saw lots of foreigners in this coastal area, taking a swim, sunbathing, and touring as well. Sabang beach is a long shore with a white fine sand, pristine water, and a quite breeze and it is one of the stopovers near the famous Underground river. The water at the Sabang beach is very clear, water is very safe for kids its a long distance away before the water gets that deep.

It took us lots of takes to have this Jump Shot to go at the same time, never touch the ground but I just covered my face very bad clip.. hehehe but still it's kinda okay.

Sabang's version of Kalesa instead of Horse they used the Carabao as a carriage there mode of transportation just for tourist only. This is one Sabang's tourist attraction here.

I'm so loving this tropical food and also the Minatamis as a dessert.

This is one the pics that i liked because I looked like Muro Ami in this photo, taken by Xang from her galaxy fone. I love to have a pic taken from Xang's fone because of the nice effects it has. Trying to be sexy in some of the photos but personally got a very fatty body hehehe...

another underwater pictorials with my good friend Gladys

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From afar we saw this resort that is so pleasing in the eye, we decided to go there just to have a picture taking. It is the Sheridan Beach Resort and Spa it is one the luxurious resort found in Sabang it is very amiable and looks expensive for me.

After our picture taking we are getting ready to leave Sabang beach for us to keep going for our next activity. Because time runs out so fast and it is our time for us to be at the Subterranean River National Park also known as the Underground River. We need to hire a boat again to be on the said place.

We need to ride in a bangka in order to reached the Underground River. We are travelling in an open sea, while in the bangka we can see from afar the different scenery of the limestone inticades that we are really near to the underground river as soon as we come closer to our destination i don't know understand what to feel upon seeing the sight I was really amazed I don't know what to say it is such a goddess place to have those kinds of dazzling limestone.

This is a Thumps Up for me a salute to nature and God's creation. Good thing Puerto Prinsesa managed to preserved this majestic and natural foundation well. I feel so proud and honored to be in this amazing habitat. Especially it is now included to one of the 7 wonders of the world.

The Team Katol-Tiil conquers Underground River

3 ladies in the 7 wonders of the world having fun

Welcome!! this is the main entrance going to the cave

A "NO PERMIT, NO ENTRY" policy is strictly enforced in the park. All persons are required to secure a Visitor Entry Permit before entering the park.

for for info you may check this site : http://www.puerto-undergroundriver.com/

To be able to be in the Underground River we need to pass through a long wooded pathway inside a dessert covered with abundant of altered trees. The atmosphere is is quite cold with the presence of some insects that will try to bit you.

This wooden pathway makes it more attractive and gives the tourist a little more excitement to be on the distinguish abode.

All smiles to be in this spot, few more steps and were ready to go...

During this trail we found some wild monkeys all over the place some will just pass through in front of you some are just on the tree branches and some are just staring at you as if they are planning something on you and it make me so scared. We were warned not to bring any foods in plastics for the reason to avoid the Monkeys may attack you and get that thing in your hand.

Now getting ready, after the registration we now wore our life supporters (life jacket) and helmets and waited for our turn to ride in the modest boat that would yield us to the cave. Each boat has one assigned guide and the one who will paddle the boat. The first in line passenger will be in-charge in holding the battery-operated spot lamp and Gladys is the one holding the lamp but it turns out she was strikes into panic when the boats starts heading inside the cave and she was about to cry and don't want her position her position but we just convince her just to stay calmed and just enjoy it because she can afford to switch places anymore because we are in the middle of going in. That manner she was now more relaxed.

Ready to go in... upon entering the cave the boat man starts to talk about what's inside the cave sharing witty stories and history of the cave, it's like we are in a field trip. Inside the cave the clement is cold and it is very dark the only light that you will see the the spotlight that we had and the flash of our cameras. There is a moments of silence wherein you may only overhear the water drops from the caves, the chirping of the humming birds and the flipping of the bats or maybe the birds wings.

Inside the cave is a breath-taking views of the rock formations of the stalagmites and stalactites. You will surely be entertained and would catches your eyes off to every rock patterns that you passed by it's like an architectural structure but it's not all of this are natural-made only.

Based on what I learned about Underground River is the longest searched underground river in the world. Approximately 8.2 kilometers have been discovered wherein, 4.3 kilometers are passable, but for tourist it would only be limited to 1.5 kilometers equivalent to about 45 minutes tour. According to the boat man if we go further it's actually a dead end and a bit dangerous and if you wish to explore more you'll be needing a special permit to explore the rest of the river.

Underground river is such an enchanting place and it is excellent scenic spot to visit, that's why lots of tourist love to be in one of the 7 wonders of the world. This is one of the preserved areas in the Philippines treated as one the treasured island of the country. It was created to protect the notable cave systems, lush old growth tropical rain-forest, fascinating wildlife, unspoiled natural allure of the area and one of the most impressive caves systems in the world.

I personally was very delighted and really appreciated the wonder of the natural world. Very Sulit!! You won't regret this to be in this wonderful reality. Truly it is a certified wonders of the world.

We conquered one of the 7 wonders of the world. It is such a wonderful experience that would make me so proud of that me together with my friends witness how astonish this subterranean area. I will treasure this moment for the rest of my life.

Me, Honeysol, Ruth, Xang & Poy the certified Katol-Tiil team.

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