No, there aren’t so many bananas or its trees here, I doubt if one even exists. But yes, the island’s name is derived from this tropical fruit, because this is how the island looks like …
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Cuyo’s Pagdayao Festival
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 …
Continue readingTouring El Nido in Two Days
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 …
Continue readingDiving in El Nido: Abdeen’s Reef, Paglugaban Island and Comocutuan Island
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 …
Continue readingEn Route to El Nido
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 …
Continue readingCuyo’s Pandan Island
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 …
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