We said goodbye to Jessica and got our return flight from Puerto Princesca to Manila and went to the Mall of Asia with Claire and Dee as we only had a few hours left with them. We took advantage of the 99 peso lunch time deal at Pizza Hut and then cried as they sailed off in their taxi to the airport :-( Me and Kam were back on our own again and both felt a bit sad but we made our way to the victory liner terminal in Pasay to catch a bus to Baguio which is a city...

The journey to El Nido was a lot better than to Sabang. It took about 5 hours and we had to change once at the main junction. When we arrived we had to look for a room again, it took a while - Kam and Claire found the best one, another family room for the 5 of us it was very near the beach. We dumped our bags and then went to look at the beach, it was quite polluted and it was very overcast so we didn't get a good first impression of it! We ate in a bar called Se...

We caught our Zest Air flight from Manila to Puerto Princesca on the island of Palawan in the evening - I think we were all Manila'd out! As we came out of the airport it instantly felt peaceful. We all loaded onto a tricycle to the Banwa art house where we had booked a room. The air was so much more cleaner and when we arrived at Banwa they had a lovely seating area and restaurant which overlooked trees, we all had a bit of dinner and had an early night. The ne...

Our next destination was Manila and meeting up with Claire and Dee who were flying over from home for 2 weeks with us! We had to get a very choppy boat ride back from Malapascua to the mainland and then got another open window bus back to Cebu, then a zest air flight to Manila and then get the shuttle bus to terminal 1 to meet them. Now we thought it would be like meeting someone at Gatwick or Heathrow where you can leisurely have a drink and wait - but this is t...

Our next destination was Manila and meeting up with Claire and Dee who were flying over from home for 2 weeks with us! We had to get a very choppy boat ride back from Malapascua to the mainland and then got another open window bus back to Cebu, then a zest air flight to Manila and then get the shuttle bus to terminal 1 to meet them. Now we thought it would be like meeting someone at Gatwick or Heathrow where you can leisurely have a drink and wait - but this is t...