What do you when you see a cheap airfare online and you have money to spare? Well— in our case, we pulled the big guns and bought said Cebu Pacific tickets without any tours to back it up, created the tours ourselves and enjoyed the adventure for 5 days and 4 nights last August 17-21.
Since my sister and I are adamant not to waste a single minute in Coron, Palawan, we decided to maximize the tours and minimize the time in our accommodation. This meant we don’t care if we sleep in a high class hotel or not— we’ll just sleep, rest a bit and take a bath there. We stayed in GLC and met a very nice lady named Jenny.
The room was nice with one double bed (which my sister and I shared) and one single bed (that served as an open cabinet for our things). It soooo yellow though. The bath was nice too but since it’s a lodge, we are to provide our own washroom necessities (minus the water).
We checked-in. Got things settled. Changed gears. And went off to our primary step of exploration.
FIRST DAY
First stop: LUNCH! And a big lunch we had at Lolo Nonoy’s Eatery. They serve common Filipino dishes (like Sinigang, Lechon Kawali, Embutido and such) and the best Corn Shake I’ve ever tasted.
We stayed there eating, sipping our shake, reading kindle then eating again for hours. When it’s almost time for sunset, we finally put our spoon down and went off to our next stop.
MOUNT TAPYAS
"Why am I doing this to myself?” was what I kept thinking while climbing the 720 something steps of Mount Tapyas.
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