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I'm hoping someone has some insight to the Island of Palawan near El Nido. It will be during the wet season of early September...This is a honeymoon trip!
contact mitzi at mitzi_canafranca@hotmail.com she would be leaving for palawan next week to manage a resort. She is a diver so she would be sympathetic to your concerns.
I'm hoping someone has some insight to the Island of Palawan near El Nido. It will be during the wet season of early September...This is a honeymoon trip!
Also, any idea on the type of dive shops there?
Thanks for any help!
El Nido is a beautiful place. Check out the resorts there, Lagen and Miniloc. I spent a month there and the service and diving was great. I highly recommend it....My brother works there and he will show you and your wife a great time!! :10:
El Nido is a beautiful place. Check out the resorts there, Lagen and Miniloc. I spent a month there and the service and diving was great. I highly recommend it....My brother works there and he will show you and your wife a great time!! :10:
That is great! Those are the two spots we are going...We'll be there the first week of Sept around the 9th...Do you know how the gear/equipment is there?
Palawan Divers had character. The guy who heads the place is this well cool 50ish frenchman called Jean Marc. There were 2 Philippino brothers who did much of the day to day divemaster guiding, Noy-Noy and Jon-Jon, both very proficient divers (one had 2000+ dives, the other only 800 or so, this was in 2003), they were calm, organised, safety concious and pointed out things I would never have spotted underwater... The only other diveshop I heard of in El Nido town itself was Bacuit Divers, but I know nothing of them. However both were basic, no frills dive outfits, no nitrox or anything fancy like that! (unlike Coron)..
The diving around El Nido was good, but not spectacular as such (compared to elsewhere in the Philippines). The best dive I did (I did 5) was South Miniloc, where there was some nice coral and crinoids, a big shoal of fusilers (all around us), shoal of squid, and an 80cm Giant Trevelly following us for a while, really close! Great fun though. Saw stingrays, nudibranches, turtles at the surface, well cool! The above water scenery is spectacular, and the beaches we had lunch at were amazing!
The best food I had in the Philippines was at the Bistro El Nido, run by another great french guy called Bruno - very tasty pizza, fresh fish, and the lobster, baked with butter and garlic was excellent! Bruno has some great stories (he's lived in the Philippines for 30 years), and he has this habit of giving you a beer on the house as soon as you start gettin ready to head back to the hotel for bed...
Note this is a 'budget backpacker' view of El Nido, I've not been to the more pricey resorts out on the islands, just El Nido town itself.
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