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Amazing Race in
Tokyo, Japan
Underground
River Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Manila, Philippines
Munich, Germany
Salzburg, Austria
Mercedes, BMW
and Nazis
After the Underground River tour, our next
adventure was the Island Hopping at
Honda Bay. I pre-arranged the tour with Kawayanan Resort since
they provided a very competitive price plus the extra discount. It was best
that an island hopping tour be pre-arranged since the port at Honda Bay was
about 30 mins drive from Puerto Princesa proper and public transportation
was not easily available. If someone could have done a drop off/pick
up for us, I could have made the arrangements myself.
However, the Ps 1,100/person island hopping
tour was extremely reasonable since it covered transfer from resort to
wharf, boat tour, entrance fees and lunch. Yes, the sumptous lunch!
So upon arrival at the wharf, Dad did his
fresh market shopping and bought some freshly caught fish - still alive.
This was on top of the lunch provided by the resort. Our freelance
guide Jaja, was helpful and was actually very pleasant and nice.
Our first stop was the
Pambato Coral Reef where we were treated with a nice view of coral reef
with lots of fish species to watch. From there, we went to Starfish
Tabuan but we did not swim in the area due to rockfish where their
protruding spines were a bit poisonous.
We spent most of the day at
Snake Island where we had our lunch and Mom had her local shopping as
well. Out boatmen cooked the freshly caught fish that Dad bought at
the wharf on top of the other dishes the resort prepared for us. The
island does look like a snake because of its swerved like feature.
From Snake Island, we went to
Pandan Island where Mom had a great time feeding the fish in the middle
of the ocean. It was such an awesome site that all of us were just
amazed with it. Funny because Dad was missing and apparently he went
for a massage provided by the locals!
From Pandan Island, we went back to the port
where the resort van picked us up and brought us back to Kawayanan.
Got a bit of a rest and Dad treated us for my birthday dinner at
KaLui restaurant where we had
prawns, all sorts of fish and excellent dessert. For all the 7 dishes
that we had, the price was extremely reasonable!
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