Flying to El Nido Palawan (Smallest airport in the Philippines)
Good morning my friends and welcome back to another video here in the beautiful country of the Philippines here with the Bro again traveling around this place and uh in today's video guys we're gonna be uh taking a flight to one of the smallest airports in all of the Philippines from Caticlan here you're just off the coast of Boracay over to the tiny tiny little airport of El Nido so we're taking a uh about a 150 peso ride to get us over to the ferry port if you saw a video a couple days ago we took the uh plane then ferry then another means of transportation so it's a bit of a journey to get over there we've got the flight in about uh one hour and 15 minutes so it's gonna be coming pretty good for maybe two hours and 15 minutes to be exact and so we should make it just in time luckily we're going to a very small airport so you can cut it close uh the one in where we'll fly out from but uh yeah this was a very quick trip to uh Boracay beautiful place a lot more to explore I'm definitely gonna come back and show you way more of this island but unfortunately I'm on a pretty tight itinerary so we shall be back Boracay until next time all right kuya we've arrived a special drop-off spot for us 100 uh do you have change brother you have change uh I only have uh let's see what I have 100 for small 50 bro yeah okay all right we have made it to the ferry report honestly so much more efficient just getting your own transportation like we did ah oh there's me it's my friend's name my friend's name yeah thanks salamat all right guys and we are here at the ferry port what I'm saying though is the uh when I got the uh package transportation from the airport a few videos ago it took so long and it honestly was not cheaper at all I paid like twenty dollars or one thousand pesos and I had to wait for people and like Drop other people off at their hotels and it was really really unefficient like this Transportation cost me only 150. so like uh three US dollars to go there uh and I didn't have to stop at other people's hotels so like just keep that in mind if you're not in a rush like the package transports just like the simplest without like talking to people but it's also going to take you the most amount of time so if you're limited on time like I was I definitely uh regret doing that oh we're going through this way salamat all right [Music] oh they want to send this this way here it looks like the tourist way you gotta start you gotta put us at the gift shop bro make sure we buy something before we leave the car we're going to take one moment to pause today's video guys and share with you our sponsor for today's video which is Nomad esim. Nomad esim solves a massive problem for me let me just tell you in the first 24 hours whenever I arrive to a new country I spend time figuring out how is my cell phone going to work where am I going to find a SIM card and is this a reliable service provider. Well that's all changed ever since Nomad esim came into play now when I'm sitting here in my office planning for the next trip booking my hotel, planning my flights, I'm also able to pull out my phone hop on The Nomad esim app find exactly which country I'm going to a phone plan that works for me depending on the amount of gigs I would like then I can purchase it right here so when I'm flying and Landing directly in the country that I'm going to I get off the plane and I'm already connected so that's a big thing for me one because of time efficiency that's for sure number two is my U.S plan that I have I pay like $80 per month plus like a $10 per day international plan fee which as you can imagine traveling for almost the entire month every time I'm traveling that adds up very quickly so it's efficient and it is saving money for me and so that is why Nomad esims has been a game changer for me as a traveler so if you guys want to get your first esim and save some money doing it head down to the link in the description below you'll actually get three dollars off your first purchase and you'll be connected on your next trip thank you so much back to the video and this looks like the entrance good into here wow okay so we've got to find ourselves a ferry [Applause] let's see here Malay tourism one day transaction boat ticket airport transfer over here bro all right cat decline airport transfer good morning uh yes please two tickets to cataclyn all right bro I'm getting them here oh wow that's good money wow all right so it looks like we've got to uh pay for two so we pay a terminal fee and then we pay Caticlan on Airport transfer fee can I grab that pen right there oh thank you 300. 300, all right
we give this to you or to the next one foreign thank you very much very efficient we need two tickets to Caticlan, please 360 . the airport gotta put this right there boarding in five minutes all right we're done here all right so these are the tickets custom made right there all right Port boarding pass and all departures must present this all right thank you which one's gonna give you all right we're good to go yeah all right oh so we got ourselves a tricycle from the Caticlan port to the airport perfect so guys just so you know per person 150 for the port fee here which is about three bucks and then another three for the fairy two which I guess includes a tricycle and so yeah about six dollars per person for us to get back plus the 150 to take the tricycle over here so comes out to about yeah nine dollars per person uh not too bad or about actually $7.50 since the shared tricycle was 150. so not too bad and as you guys can see if you're watching this video how much faster it is when we're not going through that booked company here and sadly all of us leaving this way foreign oh perfect all right they're telling us enjoy the beach on the way out well we missed the beach already ah so we're gonna be hopping on MB Curt how do you know that bro oh you got the uh MB Curt seat 44 ticket did they just give you one or two two oh sweet all right it's the uh Bridge of Doom all right so we're gonna film this while going across whether going in or not two outcomes and there we go it's a pretty nice pathway across salamat kuyas [Music] all right and we're on that's harder to walk on the ferry than it is on the bridge I'll see much different trade than we took to get here but it seems a little more spacious we can just toss the luggage here all right and a quick ferry ride we have made it we are oh and we're moving forward on the boat still a bit of a uh cue to get off here but uh think we only have just a quick eight minute ride I want to say six minute ride to go from here to the airport salamat captain kuya all right we've got a bit of a bottleneck getting off here salamatic assistant captain all right gotta cross this thing here all right and we are making it right across here we have made it safely we know they know another Ferry welcome brother anong pangalang mokuya Anthony nice to meet you Anthony my name is Mac where do we find the tricycles there sir okay salamat thank you he looked over at me he's like hello welcome to my Channel please subscribe to me we got the two persons are you gonna be taking us on this right here all right two persons all right we got the little uh a little Cruiser here oh that's a big little one one there one there all right all right [Music] it's turned into a mini car I'd say this is so much more efficient we hopped off and immediately got on this I'm just obviously guys in this video doing a bit of a comparison because probably some of you that watched my first video think like you know maybe the way that I took was the best way on the way there but it was so much less efficient like I'm doing everything in like 10% of the time maybe 30% of the time let's say it's more accurate but um yeah otherwise we would have waited for one of those big buses and when you wait for the Big Bus there's literally like 30 or 40 people that are gonna hop right on got a nice little bar to hang on there all right then we're arriving to the Boracay Airport is that a little market leading up to it right here too snacks bags uh departures that's one facility one terminal sibo like AirAsia and then we've got the other one I think just right up here air swift that's us good for you brother fill them up all right we got the world's biggest uh departure Lodge right here seven eight nine counters this one we need to check all right we got the bag tagged hopefully we see that right over there in El Nido how many uh seats are there on the plane doubling down all right we got a nice big red tag on there showing that it's fragile it's perfect okay we're heading over this way to see what type of food we've got going on here they pulled this over on the rice meals there oh yeah oh so you got all the good stuff here yeah fish fillet, Spicy Thai chicken, good burger steak, Fried Chicken yeah all right I'm gonna do a quick laugh over there bro and see what else they have all right yep all right I'm gonna do a quick lap over here and see and very good all right on this side what do we've got going on Fresh lemonades it looks like fresh lemonades, chocolate muffins all right this might be the one or vanilla cream frappes that's great and then over there multi-purpose little gift shop it looks like all right we shall see what's going to be the good stuff then looks like this is more of just a cafe Maybe chocolate muffin all right you're thinking a chocolate muffins got my name on it you need some uh pesos brother I think yeah oh I have it thank you beautiful oh very good uh can I please have one iced latte yep let's go with the the large one today yeah and then there's a dark chocolate muffins good out there yeah all right ayos yes oh warm oh yes please that's the best way to have it yeah 343 okay airport prices foreign that's gonna be able to make it happen two pesos we got a Five Spot there all right thank you oh yeah looks like this is where the magic happens for those iced coffees right here that is gonna be delicious also we got it looks like two shots of espresso just mixing in straight up with that milk oh that looks fantastic thank you oh thank you oh that was very quick I think that's the right size straw paper straw here and let's test it out we gotta give it a proper mix here yeah okay get this thing going wow all right that is thank you very much okay we found the Bro over here coffee in a truck oh coffee and chocolate muffin here all right and this is a uh very tiny airport you definitely can't get lost here I can tell you guys I'm gonna be wired after this coffee because I said I put two shots of espresso in here but it's definitely what I need to uh wake up right now and of course not yet ready for lunch but definitely a warm chocolate muffins gonna take the edge off right there what do you think bro you want a bite I'm all right dang bro you're missing out all right wow let me tell you that it's rich and chocolate you can see all those little chocolate chips in there melting so when you take a bite out of it you just feel that Oozy chocolate right in your mouth not the freshest months that I've ever had but definitely uh pretty good pretty good I'll give this one like a six out of ten far from the best but also far from the worst quite delicious we're taking the air swift flight straight to El Nito bus number five thank you all right bus number five that is us right here bigger plane than I expected to be flying to StraightTalk needle okay all right bro we made it into the bus down the uh tarmac right here feels like the bus is about to take off but I guess where we load up on the planes are over there that just goes to show you how small the airport is going to be a rainy one today taking off number eight number eight oh thank you very much all right they're hooking us up with the uh umbrellas good afternoon all right small little plane here definitely one of the smallest commercial sized planes I've been on all right guys we are taking off now it looks like on the prop plane Bros that travel together Stay Together all right guys 45 minutes to El Nido let's go all right we are now up in here and a little bit further outside of the Island area it's much clearer day so hopefully we'll get some better weather once we arrive in El Nino all right looks like we're getting close to El Nido a bit cloudy in this area ones all along here which looks pretty amazing to explore the clouds you know it's a pretty hazy day guys and the windows aren't super clean but you can imagine how beautiful of a flight in this would be if it was a clear skies you can slightly see the tint of the watercolor it looks like it's super blue which gives you that Island Vibes feel but at least flying in you don't really see that much development on this area like there's just a couple houses sprinkled in the mountains and aside from that at least this side of El Nido is pretty pretty untouched obviously it's going to be a completely different experience than when we were in Boracay now we're starting to see some more like occupied areas on the beach it honestly looks like we're about to land right there on the beach oh a huge Pier right there that leads out look at that the airport literally borders the beach that's crazy you know wow that is a tiny little terminal look at that [Music] made it to El Nido thank you all right El Nido we have arrived is it what a small little airport here got the red carpet walking out though got the red carpet bro they had a special welcome and they knew the bro was coming all right wow yeah so that's the entire departures terminal that's the entire arrivals and we just brought with us a 100 of the planes at the airport yeah I think we're literally the only plane here so quick little 45 minute flight on the prop plane so guys this is where we are we're on the island of Palawan oh and you can see where El Nido is there's a tiny little airport in El Nido a lot of people think that you can only fly into I think Puerto Princesa but if you do that it's literally a four hour drive to get here so that's why if you fly into El Nido like we did just to get to the town center it's a 15 minute drive all right located the bag got it bro all right now it is time to head to El Nido this is literally the entire arrivals terminal and somewhere out here is directly to the parking lot now my brother was just telling me that this airport is owned by the airline and it only flies to four cities and not too long ago is actually a gravel area so it's uh kind of cool to think that that's probably why a lot of people don't realize the El Nido airport exists oh bro we got the sign right there with your name on it all right our buddy's got the bags Jake nice to meet you Jake Jake's helping us out getting us over to the kuna hotel where we're going to stand all right so as you guys can see we only walked from there to here and we're already to the pickup point just goes to show you literally how tiny this airport is it's by far the smallest airport I've even uh been in some private airports in the United States before and I would say this is an even smaller airport than a private airport and it's commercial here all right Jake's got us a uh van right here this whole Van's for us Jake this one's ours salamat and guys the airport has doubled in amount of planes there since we arrived by that I mean there's a second plane in the small little terminal this is the uh parking lot right here so we've got some Vans and a couple of places in the trees to park the motorbikes and that's the entire airport on the other side it looks like there's a helicopter and a cup like maybe a one or two private planes but three planes total yeah wow I'm like five different things that is insane just goes to show how small of an airport salamat kuyas air swift air swift yeah they dominate this entire Airport that's about saying that it makes sense now why some Filipinos that aren't even aware of this airport and they told me that there was an airport in El Nido because it's such a small one all right so we've got I think probably uh just over 10 minutes to get us to the hotel here and we're gonna get a nice little look into the outskirts of tourist area in El Nido somebody who's got rickshaws for transportation lots and lots of motorbikes around here kind of like what we saw in Boracay you know outside of the main tourist area you find a lot of shops from Barbers to local restaurants local markets convenience stores and a fair amount of construction happening looks like we're entering into uh El Nido Town Center Jake's giving us the initial tour through here how many people live in El Nido I think we're done 8 000 more than maybe [Music] wow fifty thousand yeah okay fifty thousand probably in the greater El Nido area actually a cool little town center over here street food right there um and we're here edge of town there is our neighbors the El Nido Apartments all right this is our place good afternoon thank you all right so cool little uh trendy place when we walk in that that Brook look s like candy yeah guys so we took the uh the ride here with our buddy Jake and that was uh came out to 1000 Filipino pesos which is like $18 so it's definitely one of the most expensive means of transportation when you book it through the hotel so probably on our way back what we'll do is we'll book like directly on our own because obviously if you're paying for the service you know you're paying for the you're paying for the service of someone else booking which means you know the hotel's getting there cut from it so yeah I mean the nice part is it was efficient but you'll pay significantly more probably like six 60 70 percent higher in prices all right so we are heading up to the room thank you we're excited to be here yeah thank you so much you're welcome all right well it smells very good when we walk in the design of this place looks like we're in a log cabin here some wooden stumps as the side table how's the view look bro it's good we got a cliff in the background all right sweet we're up in the uh up in the volcanic mountains pretty cool looking uh places we're going to be exploring while we're here oh whatever you want bro yeah pretty basic room but uh you know nice overall comfortable good air conditioning and inside here bathroom looks nice fresh uh towels and shower there looks like we got some drinking water and all the amenities it's been water pressure yeah looks like a great place enjoy bro all right guys we're walking through the El Nido Town Center because unfortunately the GoPro batter is dead and I didn't realize it but uh we just walked probably like three four minutes and we're at the El Nido Beach right here and you can see from that stretch where the cliffs are just right here are the whole like beachfront areas so oh we've got a tight little area cars are coming through here what do we think for a walk down because it looks like we're limited from this side 's pretty high today probably from the rain coming in okay but yeah what a cool place well I guess that's an expectation to have when coming to the islands we're already getting rain down here but I didn't even think this was the rainy season but I guess you can expect that on the islands just with tropical weather but at least for a portion of the day a lot of the times you're going to see at least a bit of a bit of the rain coming down but it's cool the nice part about El Nido it's a bit Cozier than let's say Boracay I'm in the El Nido area stretches from right there all the way to there so you can walk from one end to the other and probably less than 10 minutes and the time is high The Tide is getting very high oh this one's coming all the way up I can feel it yeah I'm like I'm surprised that uh it makes the road yeah exactly I'm gonna have to run across after this one forgot to switch my shoes guys I'm wearing the uh the flip-flops um when the uh the full-on shoes you can see oh now we know next time bring out the uh flip-flops the sandals El Nido the center we've got one shipwreck right there too guys a bunch of cool little like plazas right here restaurants in the back we've got uh a cool little carving right here on the uh on the design fun beers [Music] oh look at this Modern Hotel right up there such a Vibe if you can see all these places just right along the uh the coast here Crepes coffee milk tea oh yeah they're definitely uh serve until the tourists over here with the different options that they've got all right guys we've got the next distance I jumped up at the exact time we're gonna make it all the way to the next base oh I have nowhere to go though all right cool yeah this is me the whole way on the beach all right so this is like seems like the main area for the boats we've got a whole bunch out here just kind of bopping around my brother and I were just so shocked that like the tide right now I'm sure like it's at one of its highest points but it's just absolutely smashing against these buildings you'd think it would have such an incredible impact or destructive impact not incredible but like incredibly destructive I mean impact on these buildings so I'm just wondering if they must uh face some serious construction issues all along the coast here we've got the Bro walking along the uh the dock here the warpy dock whoa it warps when you walk guys we just uh walked over this way and now looking up here it is such an incredible view I mean even though we've got like this odd contrast of like dark gray clouds but you just see those Cliffs that have these like really really steep uh inclines to them along with like Greenery at the top just such an exotic look definitely similar to my brother made a good reference Ha Long Bay in Vietnam also somewhat similar to like co-pp area in Thailand you know kind of like a hybrid of those two but in their own Filipino format so it's a such a beautiful part of the world here okay then all right there we go we got a smile out of you that's good all right we've made it to the end here got a mix of pretty much every type of boat around here from kayaks to looks like this kaiwan three Island Resort so that's probably the fast track to get you from here to wherever that Resort is weaving you in and out of those smaller little Islands over there yeah this is such a cool Island landscape Wise It's so so different from Boracay honestly in so many ways it's completely different from Boracay I mean there's a 45 minute flight to get here so you can imagine it's pretty far away all right there's the dock the local gas station here and it's kind of the end here it seems like there's some like local accommodation or oh that's the Port Authority there all at the end here now obviously can't build too much more there because we've got the cliffs so that leads us kind of to the tourist center I would assume right over here the interesting part about El Nido is like every place I've been to so far in the Philippines has their own uh unique style of like vehicles to get around so these little motorcycles actually have like the front fender of what looks to be a car this one says Nissan on it and they all have named them double M2 that's a Mitsubishi front comotica and yeah it's so cool someone had mentioned that to me when I was in Manila that like each place you're gonna find like a unique type of vehicle and all the places you go in the Philippines like this one right here it's like a uh a Mazda motorbike here right like it's all you can tell it's all completely custom made and you've got like a uh I'm not sure what type of bike that is but basically you weld all that on there and you've got room to take a couple passengers and their luggage so that's uh definitely a really unique and uh fun part to see in these places one thing my brother and I have noticed is that uh there's a lot of Korean signage all over El Nido so they must attract quite a few uh Korean tourists to this area oh we got laundry service here too we've got the district right here maserat food here yes yeah all right perfect we came to the right place then yeah perfect we'll take this one here get a little people watching from here yeah we've got some delicious food here I know I know Patrick all right Patrick so uh by the way it's so far so good yeah yes oh okay it's a great quote uh can I please have the beef same for me nice the Bro knows the good stuff to get I followed his lead on that yeah and then can I please have a mango fresh juice please Salama two mango fishes anything else too uh anything for you bro uh that's it all right just that picture maybe a bottle of water as well yeah two bottles of water please salamat so guys this is the restaurant here it's a really nice Vibe like murals all on the inside a nice bar modern look here kind of like a cement industrial look mixed with that kind of like you know Bali islandy type of feel the ropes the spice up your life quotes and then like at the very back this must turn into a party place at night because you got the DJ deck and a massive speaker there so yeah cool area right across from here we've got a hostel and then kuna that is the hotel we are staying at I think we chose kuna because there's like a pretty decent priced hotel uh I will say we didn't spend like a tremendous amount of time trying to find like the most inexpensive place or anything we kind of just picked one and uh you know something with a decent looking accommodations on the photos and decent Wi-Fi so yeah guys now we've got a few minutes until the food comes we've got the fresh mango shakes delivered here let's test them out oh ice cold there's no better feeling than we're like walking around kind of soaked from the rain very humid outside in the evening and then just take a nice Sip and a mango iced up smoothie here just cools down the entire internal body temperature so much delish my friends all right we got ourselves some delish far right here let's go ahead and test this out fresh out of the stove nothing like some juicy meat inside of that soupy flavor on an evening but I think we got to do the uh Filipino classic where you go ahead and uh squeeze that in there get some of the uh pepper chopped up get those juices mixed in [Music] gotta add that into the soup [Music] minus the seeds [Music] yeah as you can see a really really good quality overall nice presentation vegetables taste and look really fresh oh no I haven't had a bite of the noodles yet so let's test those out oh yeah that is super tasty a nice soft noodle there and carrots and a little mix of everything I like it though guys really good Vietnamese food didn't expect to have this in El Nido that just shows you an idea of all the different Cuisine options that you're able to find small little Island right here so guys for us to have two mango shakes and a beef comes out to about 1 176 which is roughly 20 US dollars maybe about 21 US dollars for me and the Bro to have some delicious food at a nice and modern restaurant so really nice meal heading back to the hotel all right here it is we just have a short walk back to Kuna here we are all right guys so that was our first uh day exploring or just a very brief day exploring most of the transportation in this video to get to El Nido but I hope you guys enjoyed this video so thank you so much for watching so if you guys want to get your first esim and save some money doing it head down to the link in the description below you'll actually get three dollars off your first purchase and you'll be connected on your next trip thank you so much back to the video
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