When I first arrived in Manila it was raining. Horrible rain that didn't stop for four days. I could hardly leave the apartment. Before leaving the Philippines for good (or at least for the time being), I came back for a few more days to...
Balut is a fertilized duck embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell. It's a popular street food in Manila and The Philippines. And it's...
Singing karaoke in Puerto Princesa, Philippines....
I had wanted to do another island hopping tour while I was in Palawan, and so, when I found out my new Icelandic friends were doing tour C (there were four different set tours that everyone offered), I invited myself along. It was an incredibly fun...
I still wasn't sure I really wanted to leave El Nido. All that day I was considering moving my flight to Bangkok back up, giving up on the Philippines, a country I was loving until the night before. But there were still things I...
We all felt like shit that morning. The night before our hostel was burglarized. And there was nothing we could do about it. We still went on the tour we had planned for. But it was raining for the first half of the day. We were...
"I can't find my laptop." Brad came out of his dorm room, looking for the computer he'd left on his bed. Victor had already been complaining that his phone was missing though we had been assuring him he had had it when he came back from...
Photos from beach camping on Seven Commandos Beach in Palawan, Philippines....
"When I met you I thought you were together," the Korean girl sitting across from Alex and I at the bar said, "you seemed really close." This was after we answered the other guy's question of "where did you two meet," with "at the hostel yesterday." And...
El Nido is the base for exploring the islands of Palawan in the Philippines. The beach there is nothing exciting, the town has no ATM, and all the power is turned off between 6am and 2pm. But it was a nice little place to relax by...