Honeymoon at Puerto Princesa Part 2

We woke up early in preparation for our honday bay adventure. I bought my Coppertone, Snorkeling Gears and Aqua shoes. Woke up around 530am and get ourselves ready. We had breakfast at the hotels resto. Exactly 7am, our tour guide Lotlot arrived, everyone is set to go. 45mins of land trip until we reach the port. During our trip Lot gave us few trivia, Honday Bay was originally called as Hunda Bay, Hunda is a spanish word that means deep sea. Since Americans who colonize our country were having a hard time pronouncing the word they change it to Honda. We road our boat and the island hopping begins. We pass by LuLi Island, it is now rented by Koreans, It is called by that name because it is know for "lulubog-lilitaw", during low tide you can see the whole island while during high tides the island was covered with waters. Our first stop was the Starfish Island, and because it is not yet season for mating we didn't see any single starfish, according to our tour guide we can also go snorkeling and fish feeding, but since we find the water full of seaweeds we decided to just pass it up, we stayed at the island for around an hour. Emer and I just spend time taking a lot of pictures.
Our next stop was the Snake Island, or what locals popularly called biglang lalim, only few meters from the shore you'll see the deep deep dark side of the bay. a little safe there because they put some boundaries, current is gentle. This island is know for fish feeding, and since I bought a small loaf of tasty for the agenda we hurried and snorkel. There are a lot of fish but only few kinds, no corals and the sands is not as fine. We enjoy fish feeding though. It was already lunchtime when we finish snorkeling, we now have to feed ourselves (hehe), the food was not again something special but sometimes having lunch with a group of nice companies makes the lunch fun. After a short rest, we proceed to our last stop.
Pandan Island, our boatman ask a local to guide us on snorkeling so he can show us different species of fish and marine life. We saw popper fish, an octopus egg and a lot of different species of fish, it is also my first time to touch a soft coral. The island was a victim of dynamite fishing before it became a marine sanctuary, that's why they are having a hard time recovering the beauty of the place. There are some dead corals. There are a lot of colorful fishes, nice coral formation, sadly this dynamite fishing thing have to happen. Well... hopefully, years from now they can be able to maintain the marine. In return for the nice guide, we give him a tip.
Our ride back to the port was so scary, the waves are again humongous, worst than the waves at the south china sea. by the way, honda bay is located at the sulu sea. our ride back was a little bit long since we have to go a little bit slow to prevent the boat from the big waves.
We got back to the hotel early, it was only 330pm. Our dinner at the Badjao Seafront was scheduled at 6pm so Emer and I decided to roam around the city AGAIN! 6pm, we contracted a tricycle driver to bring us to the place and wait for us to finish our dinner and paid 150. The place was exceptionally awesome, it is like a balsa floating at the sea, mangroves around the place, very very nice ambiance. The food was a little bit expensive compared to the resto we have tried at PP, again we ordered 2 dishes that was good for 3-4 pax, PP's resto serving are always good for 3-4pax. We ordered grilled blue marlin at 195, buttered garlic shrimp at 175, a soup that was called something like mariscus for 75, a rice platter (ang takaw) and two drinks, they have 10% sc. the food is great, the ambiance is superb, the service is neat! a nice nice nice place to dine in. definitely worth the visit.
The following day will be our last whole day, so plan to do nothing but relaxing and shopping for pasalubongs. We woke up 7am, have our breakfast and went back to the room chilling, around 1030am we decided to have coffee at Itoy's, I read again at GT forum that this is a place worth visiting, their coffees are great, I ordered Guiles Frap for 110 and Emer ordered Mocha Frap at 95, and because my baby was tempted to order their bulalo rice he ordered a serving for only 90 pesos!!! Ting!!!! ang mura diba? and take not their bulalo is good for 2 pax, big big big serving. Already full we decided that that will b our lunch, too bad our schedule of having lunch at Jo's Inato was crossed out of the list (we wanted to compare sana with the Jo's Inato of Cebu e). As we got back to the hotel we met Mr. Ceasar and Mrs. Estela, they invited us for a quick city tour, they hire a van that will bring us to a hot spring and a quick tour around the city. 1pm we left the hotel, after a short drive we arrived at kim's hot spring, for 250 each pool (small pool, not the hot spring like the one's in Laguna), we spend few minutes soaking the hot hot hot spring water. We left the place around 330pm. roam around the city, visit the biggest university and check out PP's baywalk. After that we ask them to drop us off at the palengke since I still have to buy a lot of pasalubongs. We bought Lamayo, dried tahong, Pearl accessories and some tshirts, walk back to our hotel after. It was already 6pm. Have a quick rest and off we went to Ka-Lui, according to our guide, the most popular resto at the city. The place got a nice concept, you have to leave your shoes, slippers or sandals before going to your table. you can also sit at the floor and eat like a japanese style. The ambiance is cozy. We ordered their most expensive dish, Lobster and another dish the waiter suggested sizzling seafood. Before serving the main dish they got a complimentary Clam soup that got a taste of a lot of luya (libre lang kasi, no right to reklamo), I didn't find their food great, akala namin mali lang ang order namin but then again lobster is their most expensive dish, dapat lang masarap siya hindi ba? the taste is not even so-so, walang lasa, not worth it. sizzling seafood is ok. I heard a couple of fil-chi across our table talking about how not edible the calamares are, matigas and walang lasa according to them. Well... Ka-Lui was owned by a retired tour guide. The place's ambiance may be so nice and cozy but I won't go back for another meal because it is not worth every single peso we spent. not a good restaurant, sorry kanya-kanya po ito ng opinion ha!
On our way back to hotel, Emer not satisfied with our meal bought a whole chicken at Pinoy Litson Manok, 210 pesos. Better than Baliwag but not as good as Andoks.
We slept a little bit late and watch tv all night. We woke up 6am and have our last breakfast at the hotel, last order of Lamayo. Get our things ready and pack up. 8am was our call time and 10am was our flight.
Our trip to Puerto Princesa was so tiring yet so fun. Never enjoyed as much. PP is definitely a place worth visiting. A very beautiful place I just can't imagine the beauty of Coron and El Nido as locals said they are much much better.
Being a beach and sea lover, I really enjoyed our trip. I really had fun, this is the first time Emer and I spent together for the longest time. Indeed, a honeymoon to remember.

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