Touring the Philippines' Secluded Islands for 3 Days on a Boat (Coron to El Nido, Palawan)
hey everyone welcome back to our Channel we're Nicole and Mico and you are watching our discovering Philippines series we are in Palawan and over the last few days we have been enjoying just the laid-back Island life here on a secluded beach north of coron but now that we are well rested we are ready to embark on bigger Adventures so we are heading over to El Nido but instead of taking a direct Ferry there we decided to go on a slow three-day boat ride to soak in as much of this beautiful region of the Philippines as we can foreign it's actually like a really nice big boat there's like lots of room it's got this catamaran style like outcropping on the side of the boat so we got a covered section in here where people can like eat and drink we got a nice chill out spot right in the middle people are having some popcorn already and some drinks even got the little net thing that Nicole was on earlier right there we got some paddle boards that they pack with us and then we also got some kayaks hopefully we get a chance to use later on either today or tomorrow people are just already on island time laid back life it's a pretty relaxing morning already okay we're gonna go to the second deck give you guys a better look from the top floor we got the boat captain he's already there working harder than most of us right now so those guys are already chilling out but this here is like the top Titanic view of the boat and sorry if there's a lot of water on the lens right now you guys but uh that's kind of the feeling right now you've kind of immersed into this whole boating Island life and I think we're gonna really enjoy it here over the next three days all right we've made it to the very first island and it looks like absolute Paradise I just can't believe we're here still so we're not like getting kayaked in we're literally jumping off the boat and swimming to The Sandbar I think we're going to snorkel actually on our way there thank you first impressions of coral actually and the Sakura it's a fish yes so colorful and there's there's that little clam too and I saw like a big what looked like almost like a puffer fish looking fish uh yeah there is so much life so much I'm actually like really impressed with the diversity here yeah just as compared to our previous like uh snorkeling trip maybe because we're so far out like maybe it's because this is not that commonly yeah there are some other boats here but that's one of the reasons why we chose to do this uh longer uh part of the route tours because you kind of get away from the crowds where like a lot of people doing day tours like here we can really get some distance foreign just flew by so we uh swam back to the boat and then we had a very delicious lunch that's like our first meal it was so good we had like chicken adobo you had crab it was really good though so far after a really good start right now this is like to me a little bit overcast and like a bit of a breeze it's perfect it's perfect like napping weather oh man it's so hard enough to snap right now like it's not about the water man that just takes daddy well yeah we're exhausted and then we've eaten and now it's just the lull of the engine as we get to our next destination it's gonna be hard not to nap really hard not to sleep took us two and a half hours to get here on the bus um but yeah we've arrived at our first location for the place we're gonna sleep tonight I can't wait to check it out it's just so weird because it's Pitch Black all right so we are rowing to our accommodation for the evening on the beach popped into a kayak in the pitch black which is a new experience yeah this is a it's pretty Eerie if I turn off the lights whoa I think there's a new moon out so it's gonna be a pretty pretty night I think hopefully thank you thank you so much thank you all right you want to be chat to her amazing about four seconds long friends and there's the bed oh my God I'm so excited because listen you hear the ocean I hear a generator unfortunately you're a generator too but the genre will be off at 11 o'clock we get light like electricity from I think 6 p.m to 11 p.m or something um and then it's gonna just be silent and I'll just be us in the ocean and the other people on a boat but this is actually really cool I really really like this okay good morning from a very windy Beach a very windy beach in the middle of nowhere wow it's beautiful yourself we still haven't seen this place in the daylight wow holy The Tide is low how are the tires so our sleep was pretty iffy I'd say and I'll be honest it was a little choppy it was windy yeah oh man it was so windy I thought the I thought the house might like though no not that we're staying off might come off the ground no I felt fine that way it was just that it was so it was honestly I'm a little nervous ready for a new day I'm ready for another day but I'm gonna need a cat nap later foreign so we made it to our first stop of the day it was only like what a 10 minute 50 minute boat ride yeah 10 minutes fast I think I think what is like so cool about doing a multi-day island between Corona and El Nido is that like we even like hung out on our first beach this morning till like almost 9 A.M and then we come here no one's here yet because this is quite a ways out for both Quran and El Nido to be like really get into yourself the water is so blue it's so clear the weather's really good the weather's really good it's really nice and sunny I I don't I don't know what to do there's so many options we can go snorkeling swimming or hang out on the beach and walk around the options you're so funny so many options of like three oh I'm just so happy to be here I've always wanted to explore the islands of the Philippines ever since I saw like photos online of how beautiful and gorgeous these beaches were and now seeing it in person um I gotta say it lives up to the the hype I've placed in my head for the Philippines yeah can you believe you're from here I think that's the hardest thing to like grab my head around is that I like I am from this country that's wild I still feel like it's so everything's so new and different to me but I'm slowly I think as we're staying here longer and longer in the Philippines I'm sorry slowly starting to feel like more of like a connection because I'm seeing a lot more people like Filipinos living in the Philippines all are like both staff our Filipinos and they've just been like so great and they have really corny and funny jokes oh my God it's so corny and I feel like man this is this is me this is where you guys if you guys have been watching this channel for a while you know that I'd fit right into the corny funny Filipinos on this boat so true this time around we have shrimp and some crispy chicken for me I am loving this I feel like I could eat like all the rice right now because I need carbs there's also some salad there's some pasta yeah I usually ignore that stuff but Nicole likes that stuff foreign hunting procedures which is just we're just going to look for sea turtles and they're just wild sea turtles are not feeding them or anything like that so just come here they say 50 50 chance you might see some so they're kind of tricky to see kids as soon as they like catch them into people they just start off from the side so we'll see if we get lucky but if nothing else I'm sure we'll be going for a really nice swim foreign that was great it was very cool all right so we've hopped off the boat and we are in like a little village it's got 25 000 people in it so I guess it's not really that small but it's like yeah a village that lives right on the islands here and so far and some super cute kids I think we're already lost well it's actually been really cool walking through this Village yeah I thought it was going to be kind of like gimmicky coming here but I've actually really enjoyed it like we came out of the island people are doing their thing and we happen to be walking around yeah yeah we're not like we haven't been brought to anyone to buy things or anything like that it's just really you get onto the island and really experience what like a slice of life is to live in an island like this yeah I don't know how big the village that I grew up in was but I imagine it's not that different kayak car is too strong swim so we're getting a ride once again if anyone wonders we take turns with yours right it's Nicole's turn after after a couple more minutes that is the goal start this Camp is so beautiful like obviously we're right on the water here and then you're just like just like come up the bank and there are all the hats like right there I think we also might have gotten like the biggest room in this place I feel a little a little spoiled again let us walk you through all the furniture in this room we have a bed the mosquito net and that wraps up our room tour actually no you know what's very important the door which does close like that which we didn't have last night we had just a sheet this is gonna be so nice I think I didn't mind the sheet it's just that it was really noisy at night with the wind and so the sheet was like made everything even noisier so I'm really excited about darn I just finished my much-needed shower I've come out and I can already hear some karaoke so what island hopping Adventure in the Philippines is complete without karaoke foreign breaks the ice that's what I love about karaoke is because you don't really have to be a fantastic singer you just have to have the willingness to jump in try something new be ready to have a laugh with yourself and with friends and just have a good night so I love Filipino karaoke I think that's like one of the most beautiful parts of my culture and I am loving that Nicole has also adopted that as well thank you foreign it was so good I couldn't hear anything but the waves there's a bit of a gentle breeze nothing's too crazy like it was the other night nothing noisy it was so nice it was such a good sleep but we're pretty sad because today is actually the last day of the tour the three days I feel like are flying by so quick yeah so normally this tour is four days and three nights but our first day actually had to be canceled because there was two uh two two strong winds yeah it was too strong the wind but on our way to Almeda today we have I think we've had like a two hour ride to get like towards El Nido and then like we I stopped at least one Island along the way maybe even two yeah I'm not too sure um anyways we'll at least doing one more stop which is so good um yeah as we make our way to Almeda which is our final destination yeah we're officially on the El Nino side of Palawan different side same sort of paradise same sort of paradise I'd say it's a little bit busier here there's I think there's some day Trippers or something that come here yeah we've we've gone closer to the towns so I've actually really enjoyed that about this tour instead of uh I think we've mentioned it before but instead of doing the day trips with this like longer till we can go further and I really like having beaches to ourselves the past couple days we really have it's been so nice although what's kind of cool here is that there's like a bunch of kids running around a bunch of dogs running around the kids all seem to know the dog so I'm assuming that the kids lives somewhere close but yeah fun just like watch them and like play in the water playing with our kayaks it's actually been really kind of neat yeah it's fun that way because we've we've had our fellow snorkeling and swimming and now it's just like chilling and that is no shortage of entertainment still so heavy so I was just watching the trees in the back and then the one of the guys from the boat started climbing one of those trees and just did it so effortlessly just bare-handed climbed up the tree chopped down a few of these coconuts and after a little bit of finessing on top you get this look at that this whoa that's crazy this entire thing is full of coconut water so we're sharing one like to the brim yeah look at that did you give a taste yeah I don't know how to drink this make it like a drink yeah oh man that's good oh my God it tastes like very nice thank you so we made it to the last stop for the day but instead of taking the camera back onto Shore we figured we just put the camera down and just really soak in these final moments because it has been a blast yeah the last few days have been so good if you are interested in doing this Tour by the way we uh we came with big dream boatmen they've been wonderful like awesome the crew is exceptional they're hilarious they're so funny so funny the food's been awesome and I love that like the group people is small enough that like we've really gotten to know so many people while we've been here obviously we travel full time and stuff so it's really nice to just come and meet some new people hang out with them for a couple of days and explore like this the most beautiful place on Earth with them we've had a lot of fun discovering this part of the Philippines there are lots of adventures coming up so if you like this video make sure you give it a like if you want to see more videos of us discovering the Philippines and then learning more about this beautiful country and this beautiful culture make sure you hit subscribe thank you so much for watching always go wrong
2023-06-03 04:00
