Puerto Princessa Palawan: a good start for 2015!

New year means new beginnings. I preferred to begin my 2015 by exploring the Philippine gem lying along the West Philippine Sea - Palawan. Its capital city, Puerto Princessa serves as the gateway of the Palawan mainland.


01.06.15 on board a Cebu Pacific flight, i with my dearest friend from Sydney were cruising the sky at 30,000 feet above sea level full of excitement for this adventure. After sitting our back to pain in a grumpy, jam-pack, limited legroom cabin for an hour and 15 minutes from Cebu (not to mention the very expensive flight, 5k+), we finally touched down Puerto Princessa Airport.

Hello there! Minutes after we went out the airport, we hired a tricycle to drive us through to our hotel. First impression of both me and Yanti: "very clean surroundings". Indeed, didn't find any trash/plastic along the road. Good job to the people of Puerto Princessa. Also, kidos to their friendliness!

In a trycycle ride.

Kuya driver was good enough to refer is to a travel agency to arrange for our underground river and El Nido Your. We passed by a travel agency close to the airport and made our tour and transfer reservations.

Soon as we dropped our bags off in the hotel, we then headed to tour the city on our own. Yes! We went to Baker's hill by riding a tricycle and then a jeepney and then a tricycle again. We saved a lot. Fare is only 12 pesos for tricycle and 15 pesos for jeepneys. It was our way of experiencing how the locals live in the city.

Here at the Baker's hill.

Posing on top of the hill!

We decided to go out for dinner on our way back to their CBD. Our first choice was "Kalui" as this was the most recommended by the locals and most bloggers however when we arrived there, they were already full. Too bad we didn't make reservations ahead of time. So then we went to our second choice, the Mangan Kayon (formerly Bilao). 

Good bargain! At Php 499, we got to have a boodle food set-up with pork, ckicken and seafood. They said this was good for 2 but honestly, this was so much for 4. 


Yes, we didn't manage to finish everything. There's just too much! Haha


Marianne Hotel, where we stayed at room 205.

More of Palawan comimg up next!

















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