Sunset at the El Nido Market
The popularity of Palawan as a tourist destination is rising with the inclusion of the Puerto Princesa Underground River into the New Seven Wonders of the World. Admittedly, that was just all a publicity stunt but it worked in terms of increasing awareness of the underground river. I was there some years before but Palawan is not just about the underground river, this time I will be heading north and getting some sun. I will be travelling to the small town of El Nido in northern Palawan. The last time I was there I took a roundabout and more adventurous way to the town. By taking a jeepney to the Sabang and taking an outrigger boat to El Nido in an epic six hour ride. But now, it is more convenient, there is a bus here which will bring you to El Nido and you have a choice between air-conditioned and air cooled versions. Naturally, air-conditioned ones are slightly more expensive and both travel alternately.
Brilliant Light Show at Sunset in El Nido
This would be my first time traveling north this way. What was best was that most of the road going to El Nido is paved, providing fast travel times from town to town. We passed by several town though none of them seem to be noteworthy aside from Taytay which was already almost to El Nido. However, just before reaching El Nido town, the road turned bad, really bad. It was as if they ran out of money to pave the road here. It slowed our journey to a crawl while I can already see the karst mountains from a distance. It took us more than an hour to make it through that portion and I was shaken quite a bit. I was only glad that we managed to get there in one piece. By that time, the sun had already set but left me with some brilliant light effects to photograph. I just couldn’t get to the water from the terminal.
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