25th-31st January, 2015 For Part 1 of our time in the Visayas, click here. Apo Island Apo Island is only one and a half kilometers long and seven hundred meters wide, a tiny dot in the hundreds of islands dotted across the Visayan Sea, but it sparked upon on the tourism radar a fewContinue reading “Travelblog#39: The Visayas Part 2 (Apo Island, Dumaguete & Boracay) – the Philippines”
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Travelblog#38: The Visayas Part 1 (Bohol & Siquijor) – the Philippines
19th-24th January, 2015 After ten days spent in pretty but a little bit too touristy Palawan, it was time to move on. Me and my three companions – James, Chloe and Jody – boarded a plane. Our next destination was the Visayas; an archipelago of scattered islands which, due to its geographically central location andContinue reading “Travelblog#38: The Visayas Part 1 (Bohol & Siquijor) – the Philippines”
Travelblog#37: El Nido & Puerto Princesa – the Philippines
14th-19th January, 2015 El Nido, with its dramatic landscape of limestone mountains and white sand beaches, is the top tourist destination in Palawan. When we reached there we were greeted by the usual signs of a popular beach experiencing growing pains – inflated prices, cluttered streets, white people outnumbering Asian – but I had alreadyContinue reading “Travelblog#37: El Nido & Puerto Princesa – the Philippines”
Tej Turner 