Featured Destination: Puerto Princesa
Posted by Lakwatsero in Destinations, Luzon on 01. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
The heart of the Philippine’s last frontier, Puerto Princesa is the second largest city in the Philippines in terms of land area and dubbed as the city in the forest. Home to the world’s longest navigable underground river – the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city boasts of being [...]
Cuyo’s Pagdayao Festival
Posted by Lakwatsero in Festival, Spots on 27. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Every 28th day of August, the remote town of Cuyo in Palawan celebrates its town fiesta in honor of their Patron Saint Agustin. Cuyo, a town in the group of islands of the same name sits in the open water of Sulu Sea is blessed with rich history and culture, unexploited islands and islets decorated [...]
Touring El Nido in Two Days
Posted by Lakwatsero in Travelogues on 03. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is the day three and four travelogue of the five-day trip to El Nido. After a day of diving, Ate Claudia and I were not yet through with our rendezvous. There were so much to see and so much to do in the waters of Bacuit Bay but we need to maximize the limited [...]
Diving in El Nido
Posted by Lakwatsero in Dive Report, Travelogues on 02. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is the day two travelogue of the five-day trip to El Nido. El Nido may not have the challenging wrecks of Coron or as diverse as Apo Reef and Tubbataha, but being a marine protected area with numerous dive spots that offer great nature diving, El Nido is definitely worth diving! El Nido’s Bacuit [...]
En Route to El Nido
Posted by Lakwatsero in Travelogues on 30. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
This is the day one travelogue of the five-day trip to El Nido. The Tubbataha June 2010 plan was shelved for some reasons. But it didn’t stall our plan to pursue our backup trip. The equally enchanting El Nido, also in Palawan. El Nido, a protected area, is a town in northern mainland Palawan, 238 [...]
Cuyo’s Pandan Island
Posted by Lakwatsero in Nature, Spots, Travelogues on 27. Mar, 2010 | 5 Comments
The open water of northern Sulu Sea, between mainland Palawan and Panay is dotted with islands and islets with white sand beaches that are among the world’s best. One of them is the Pandan Island belonging to the Cuyo Group. It is just small island with stretch of white sand on its northeast and southwest [...]
