The travelling time from Palawan direct to Boracay would take around 40minutes by air. Unfortunately you must fly to Manila first, and then get a connecting flight to Caticlan, which is a 10minute boat trip away from Boracay. It isn't to bad..... Our flight times however, meant that we had our 1 hour flight to Manila, and 5 hour wait to connect, then another 1 hour flight to Caticlan before getting on the boat to cross the water. Nightmare. It would literally ta...

So after staying a few days in Angeles City and seeing some of the proper Philippines which wouldn't have normally made it's way into the tourist guides, we had our flights booked to Puerto Princesa, the capital of Palawan, which you will find features as a Philippine Paradise in all the tourist guides. It is a place I have wanted to visit ever since I knew the Philippines existed and we were uber excited to get there......So one of the benefits of staying with a...

I remember showing Nic the flight confirmation for the Philippines when we were back in Croydon and thinking I'd made a terrible mistake. "what's CLK?? I'm positive I booked to Manilla!", after a panicky phone call to air Asia all was revealed, we were indeed flying to Manilla, Clark Manilla. A two hour drive north of the capital,Clark is a buzzing little place in it's own right. Once the largest America army base outside America (until mount pintobu erupted an...