August 10, 2011

Top Three Best Party Islands in Spain

The Spanish islands are famous destinations for European holiday makers. They offer excellent tourists facilities that will definitely suit almost everyone’s taste. Most tourists will usually spend their day lounging on the beach and engaging themselves with water sport and other sightseeing activities and end the day partying or clubbing. Here’re three islands known for [...]

Five Insanely Gorgeous Destinations in El Nido, Palawan

There are four options that you can take when you go island hopping in El Nido. The tour price ranges from P700-P900($16-$20)/person inclusive of lunch, tour guide and boat rental. Typically, it takes 7-8 hours to visit all the islands in each tour and I think this is enough time to enjoy the sun, sea [...]

Amazing Sea Creatures During Low Tide in El Nido

One of my favourite activities here in El Nido is to walk along the shore during low tide. There’s a variety of sea creatures that never ceases to amaze me. There are octopuses, hermit crabs, fishes, sea urchins, sea slug looking creature, sea snails, shrimps etc. Octopus Puffer Fish Jelly Fish Hermit Crabs Starfish Sea [...]

How to Get to El Nido, Palawan

El Nido seems to be a far flung place when I first heard about it. I was so ignorant about this place that the first thing that comes to my mind whenever I hear the word El Nido is an expensive resort. But now that I’ve been here for a couple of weeks already, I [...]

Accommodation in El Nido for All Budget

There’s a variety of accommodation in El Nido that caters to all budget. Rooms can be as low as P400 or as high as more than a $100 per night. Depending on your budget, you can definitely find a place to stay in when you go to this beautiful paradise. Below is an excel file [...]

Cut-price ‘Carnaval’ in Tenerife!

Not ordinarily up there on my list of ‘must see’ places, a bargain opportunity to Tenerife presented itself and two weeks later, my knackered old rucksack was stuffed with crumpled t-shirts, a guidebook and emergency Pringles. Staying in Puerto de la Cruz, I quickly heard from other hostellers about the local February ‘Carnaval’ taking place, [...]

Meet the Nomads: Sherry Ott

I feel so lucky that the author of one of the blogs that I’ve been reading for some time agreed to be featured in my Meet the Nomad’s section. I’ve been reading Ottsworld and Briefcase to Backpack for the longest time because I’ve been learning a lot from Sherry and from the contributors as well. [...]

Lazy Dogs in El Nido

There’s an abundance of dogs in El Nido. Some of them roam the beaches of Corong Corong, a few of them can be found in some islands and some of them are roaming the main road en route to Bgy. Maligaya or more popularly known as the El Nido town proper. Having been bitten by [...]

15 Ways to Travel Cheap in El Nido, Palawan

Most people think that El Nido, Palawan is an expensive place to travel to. That was the same thought that I had for years and became the sole reason why I didn’t go here before. But after being here for more than a week now, I noticed that it can also be a cheap place [...]

Crab Wrestling in El Nido

The neighbouring kids here in El Nido usually keep themselves busy by playing with small crabs that they catch from the shore. It’s almost similar to what I used to play in Manila when I was a kid. In the city, we usually catch spiders and have them fight each other. Here the kids catch [...]