As we turned our phones off 'airplane mode' the last thing we were expecting was to see a text message from Jing (the Filipino we met on Boracay) saying he was at the airport with his girlfriend Jho-einah to meet us! We only had one night in Cebu City as we would be flying to Kuala Lumpur the next day. So it was really nice that we could see our new Filipino friends again. Being an extremely hospitable and helpful nation, Jing waved down a metered taxi fo...

Amelia and I left Port Barton by minibus and arrived a few hours later in the capital of Palawan, Puerto Princesa. As usual the bus terminal was outside walking distance to the city centre, so we took a tricycle. Eventually, after finding that many places were fully booked or overpriced, our driver found a place for us to stay, it was called 'Natua's Cabins'. The location was perfect for us, literally right next to the airport. We could've almost ...

Just over three hours in the minivan, with the last hour being a very bumpy dirt track, we arrived at the small and secluded town of Port Barton. Chris and I were eager to be first off the van in order to be ahead of the crowd to look for a room for the night. We registered and paid the town fee, left our backpacks at the tourism office, and headed to the beach front to look for a room. It wasn't long before we found a lovely bamboo hut at 'Cambugan guest...

To get to 'El Nido' Amelia and I had to take a banca from Coron. We'd heard mostly terrible things about the journey, but we didn't really have any other option. In total the boat journey took six hours, but we struck lucky with the conditions, the sea was as flat as a millpond. We only encountered one issue during our trip, and that was getting from the banca to the shore - unfortunately the tide was out so the banca was unable to get close enoug...

Back in Caticlan, unfortunately the RoRo we aimed for was cancelled, so we had to wait around for a couple of hours until the next one. Chris managed to find us some plastic chairs, and we plonked ourselves by the ticket office, to ensure we got a space.The RoRo took us over to Roxas on Mindoro Island. It took six hours, it was packed due to the previous ferry being cancelled, so we were limited to a bench outside. A friendly, young, Filipino man spent most of th...