Today was Election Day in the Philippines. There are campaign posters everywhere and there are curfews and drinking bands in place for the locals. Today the plan was to tour the underground river cave that was named one of the new natural wonders of the world. We were planning on doing the cave tour in the morning but we were delayed a few hours because of the election. We loaded into canoes to explore the caves. It was pitch black in the cave and bats were eve...

Today we had another early start. At 5:15 am we met the group downstairs to catch our flight to Peurto Princessa. The weight limit on the plane was 10kg per checked bag. Since my bag was double that I had to leave a bunch of stuff behind at the hotel. I will pick it up when I return to Manila. We also discovered that there are no ATMs in Palawan, so we had to take out all the cash we needed for the week at the airport. I was frantically trying to take out as much...