El Nido Palawan, Philippine's Last Frontier part 2

 Package B of the El Nido island tour 

To start our El Nido  Day 2 Tour, we were privileged to have a foretaste of the tropical island paradise of Entulala. With its sugary white fine sand, coconut lined beach and friendly water, this could have been an ideal place for us to swim;

El Nido Palawan, Philippine's Last Frontier Part I

Looking at the Philippine map, Palawan being a fringe island bereft of any volcano, seems to have not emerged from the Philippine mobile belt. 

The origin of this island can be traced to its limestone cliffs resembling those of Ha Long Bay in Vietnam and Guilin in China: 

Dingalan Aurora island paradise Luzon Philippines

Forty nine years ago as I stood perplexed watching a bus descend from atop the lush mountain of Sierra Madre I tried to fathom the secrets kept beyond those terrains.