2 weeks in Paradise

We spent the first couple of weeks of December in Palawan, a quite beautiful island on the west coast of the Philippines.

We split our time between Port Barton, El Nido and Sibaltan.

No need for too many words...

Port Barton

• 4 days
• Small, authentic fishing town, partial electricity, wonderful beaches, very relaxing.
• In 10 years time, this place will likely be overrun with tourists so it was great to see it still in a relatively underdeveloped state.
• We loved this place

El Nido

• 5 days
• One of the top tourist destinations in the Philippines
• Busy and showing the growing pains of the last 5 years influx of tourism but retains that classic Philippines underdeveloped feel.
• We spent the start of Channukah here and the kids loved going to Beit Chabad to play with the other kids there.
• Island hopping Tour was the highlight of the trip on Mili's 10th Birthday.

Sibaltan

• 3 days
• tiny fishing village on the sunrise side of Palawan
• only 7 small guesthouses, almost no tourists
• no internet, electricity only for 4 hours per day
• Kids loved playing with Jake, the hotel manager, and didn't want to leave
• I loved the peace and quiet and could have stayed for weeks
• Shoshi suffered 3 days from terrible headaches and was quite happy to leave!