Palawan and the Tao Expedition

The last days I spent in Coron, made a 5 days expedition from Coron to El Nido (Tao Expedition) and stayed in El Nido for a few days. It’s a fantastic surrounding for snorkeling at all, lots of colorful corals, various fishes and ship wrecks in the shallow water, so it’s not necessary to go diving, you can see all these things from the water surface. The Tao Expedition goes to remote islands between Coron and El Nido, where usually fishermen and their families are living. Tao built a couple of basecamps at these places, which are quite basic and offer an overnight accommodation in the pure nature. I awoke at sunrise, when the fishermen’s boats chugging away gently. Our fish was directly bought from the fisherman at the sea, so it couldn’t be fresher. They killed a pig on board too, but I really couldn’t eat it. My highlight was the Tao Farm, where the main campsite is located. Here I got lots of information about the life at these lonely islands, the possibilities and the problems to which the locals are confronted every day. The tour finished at El Nido, a quite touristic city, surrounded by the rocky scenery of the Bacuit Bay. There I spent some relaxing days before I made my way to the Visayas.

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