We arrived in Palawan on a 1hour flight from Manila. Palawan province is a series of islands SW of Luzon Island where Manila is located. We a came here to check off yet another World Heritage site (I want to see as many of these as I can before I die). The subteranean river system we went to is also the newest "seven natural wonders", voted in online in 2012. It was pretty cool. We had to take a bus about an hour and half north west of Puerto Princesa, then take a 45 minute ride on a small boat. We then went into the cave system in another boat, paddled by a guide who insisted on pointing out all the stalagtite and stalagmites that looked like Jesus, mother Mary, garlic, giraffes, etc etc. The caves were marvellous, all on there own....not need to look for anything mortal in these supernatural rock formations.
The geography here is much like Vietnam and Thailand: tropical and mountainous limestone formations-weathered by water, beautiful clear clean water...that is the difference. The water here is clean. in fact, so is the island. I am so impressed with Palawan. The government here is committed to ecologically sound and sustainable tourism, tourism that involved the local communities, who run the tourist sites, creating jobs. After the caves, we went to another spot where Nick claimed through some caves and then zip lined down. The zip line was a little too tame for me...having done much higher, longer ones in Costa Rica...so I took a snooze and drank some coffee.
Going out to dinner tonight to a traditional Filipino Feast, so more later.
PS forgive the spelling...have not figured out how to spell check on this iPad.
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