Manila - Philippines

Our trip back to Manila was nothing much exciting - apart from an amazing massage we got at Laoag airport from a blind man whilst we were waiting for the departure.
However we had only a one and a half day stop over we already can say that Manila itself isn't very exciting as well. Our main occupation was checking out a local shopping mall (only one of the many) and prepare for our next destination - Palawan.
Still we managed to have a brilliant night out in one of the sleaziest bars we have ever been into (not only for this holiday). We joined some Australians we met at Kapuluan Vista Resort who had already been to LA Cafe, open 24 hours/7 days a week!

It turned out to be a popular place for male Western tourists around the 40's to 60's (about 20% of the visitors) and semi professional pool playing Philippinos (around 78%) the other 2% was us.
The Philipinnos again were divided in circa 20% males and 80% which call themselves GROs (this stands for Guest Relations Officers ... use your imagination .

It was a fun night out but also showed us that we rather spent our time on the Philippine islands than in the capital.

Flying has almost become our favorite means of transportation by now, not only because we need a break from slow and noisy public transport but also because some islands are hard to reach by ferry and domestic flights are sometimes less then twice the price you'd pay for the ordinary bus (around 20 Euros that is).

So the next day we took the flight to Puerto Princessa, the capital of the island Palawan, which is famous for being the last frontier of the Philippines and natural wonderland.