since several airline companies offered promotional flights at such a low lo price specially to famous tourist destination locally and internationally, my former office mates had the rare opportunities to travel locally and internationally to tourist destinations.
our first family travel was sometimes in 2009. We went to visit Palawan. We boarded an all promo ,lowest fare flight via Cebu Pacific from Tacloban City to Cebu city, cebu city to Puerto Princesa. Our trip the three of us I ,my hubby Bert and my eldest daughter Ada Ayn were sponsored by my sister in law , a canadian national permanently living in Toronto Amalda.
supposedly we are five families which she sponsored . But the other four backed out.
As our first trip for leisure as a family it was such so memorable. Travelling on a purse string we agreed not to buy any souvenirs but to bring only good memories..While in Puerto Princesa , the capital city of the province of Palawan we temporarily stayed at the Banwa Pension House made of local materials andlocated in lush garden of green where most of the transients are foreignersNorth , South .americans,Europeans > We were the only Filipinos and it is one pension house listed in the lonely planet.We visited the famous undergroudn caves and proudly voted for its being nominated as one of the orlds wonder,we went to El Nido , stayed in a hut named La Marina,witnessed and savored its prestine water , snorkled,sam ith colorful fishes ,hopped with various islets and islands and swam in beautiful prestine lagoons. We tasted yummy breads and noddles from the nearby Vietnamese settlements and witnessed the traditional muddy road where we together with other caucasians hiked. On our city tours, we went to nearby color lepers colony now abandone d and made as a tourist spot. My daughter Ayn and my husband Bert savored a local delicacy ...a mangrove worm known to locals as "tamilok" and tasted a crocodile meat barbecue at the kinabutch Restaurant. At the crocodile farm , my companions likewised hold baby crocodiles, visited Bakers hill . The collector in me and while we pledge not to buy anything cant help but buy four native carved fertility virgins and which i put in our stairways however when super typhoon Yolanda hit Tacloban one of the virgin was lost.
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