so I think now we can actually fully understand why everyone recommended that we should come here
we're Lloyd and mandy we're digital nomads currently travelling the world in search of
somewhere we can call our forever home we've been in the Philippines for over
a week now and have spent the last few days in El Nido on Palawan island where
the rainy season has been in full swing with the sun finally out today we're
going to do some exploring to see what else this island has to offer
yes
all right good morning we are in el Nido still uh this morning we've woken up to
actually some really nice sunshine for the first time since we've been here finally
so we are going to take full advantage and rent a kayak today and go to some of the other islands
we've pretty much just been inside um getting some work done using the wi-fi which has been a
little bit up and down honestly we're not looking at our computers today we're just going to get out
grab a try and try and find some of these hidden beaches which you can't actually access by road um
you think they're pretty far away like about a 45 minute,
yeah that's what i heard but we're not really sure what to expect at the stage anyway
we got some sunscreen and we've got a dry bag for all of our stuff so we should have an adventure
okay i looked really far on the map but now that I'm looking at it out here
it looks really fun i don't know if that's
there's another beach closer here we might start on
I'm going to ask the guy if it's doable it looks really fast at least it's flat out there yeah
and the sun's shining I don't care what we do I'm just happy to be outside
it's so peaceful out here this is like the nicest thing we've done since we've been in the
Philippines it's so nice to have the sun back out wow this is pretty sick right yeah so beautiful
it took about five days for the sun to really come out finally I'm glad we didn't leave el Nido early
we thought about it just seem to be following the rain at the moment but I think the worst
one thing that we have noticed is the wi-fi is pretty spotty
it's fairly good most of the time but it does drop out and it seems to be faster at night
than it is during the day i'm not sure if that's just our hotel or everywhere we've sort of had
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made it to the first beach it's probably been it's definitely been half an hour yeah not as
far as i thought it was going to be but it's pretty awesome there's just not much sun on
the beach at the moment so we might keep going to the next one it's like a private beach got swings
and looks like accommodation there or someone's house maybe i don't know so beautiful like that's
like a dream place to stay all right so i think this is called Ipil Ipil beach
the next one's seven commando's
beach
well we made it to the first stop uh it's Ipil beach number two
and it's pretty sick it's awesome there's really cute little beach shacks here
we have the entire thing to ourself it's stunning yeah it looks like it's accommodation or something
but it's completely empty we're the only ones here the clearest water i've ever seen in my life
just spotted some monkeys in the trees gotta be careful with their cameras i think
we've just pulled up to the beach called seven commandos beach and it's so busy all of the group
tours have pulled up at the same time really happy we did the kayak instead of the tour restaurants
and bars out here on this one um it looks like they stopped for lunch as part of the tours
there's got to be a couple hundred people over here though
i think we've seen enough here it's pretty hectic we're going to go
to one of the islands it looks pretty far but mandy's pretty keen and reckons it's not that far
i might regret this it's probably half an hour it's kind of on the way back anyway still early
so we just arrived at cad lau island it was well worth the paddle i think it's
my favourite stop that we've been to so far it's so beautiful the cliffs are amazing we
have the whole thing to ourselves again much better than the very heavily touristy area
it's nice having the privacy and just peace it's so peaceful here there's a few dogs
running around on the beach which of course i like just stunning this feels like paradise
i think this might be one of my favorite days we've had in southeast asia so far
i really recommend just taking out a kayak like we have this has just been awesome so i
think now we can actually fully understand why everyone recommended that we should come here
it's pretty amazing when the sun's out yeah i mean it's perfect blue waters and there's so
many beaches and islands to go visit it's not expensive either like the kayak was
like 10 bucks for the day i think if you want to do one of the boat tours it's like 25 for the day
which includes lunch which isn't too bad but i think we'd prefer to go at our own pace um judging
by that second beach we went to it's uh pretty busy on the island tours yeah they don't stagger
the times that the boats show up at the same beach so it looked pretty hectic but i've heard pretty
good reviews on them so if you're into that um definitely give it a look we're just gonna walk
up the other end of this little beach on this island and see what these dogs are doing here
so cute they look like they're having the best times
okay this is someone's house right looks like we might have stumbled onto some
someone's property given we're on a deserted island we might just leave him alone i think yeah
they're here for a reason
all right we made it back in one piece just i'm exhausted
me too i've got a few blisters but nothing too bad it's a good five hours of um kayaking hey yeah
we're just going to go to our favorite lunch spot we've been there every day since we've been here
it's so fresh and so healthy we love it yeah and it's always busy they're killing it it's
gonna grab something to eat and then have a lady and i think because i'm exhausted
well we've been here every day for a week and it's the first time
it's been empty i think it's the weather
everyone's out and about enjoying this sunny weather
it feels completely different when we got here a week ago
just goes to show you need to stay somewhere for a few days to really
yeah yeah especially the weather's not good and we were tired when we got here as well um
i'm starting to really like it here we could just figure out cheaper accommodation that would be the
only thing if you have any suggestions for ways to find super accommodation let us know down in the
just a bit spotty
okay we definitely got too much sun today
we hope you guys enjoyed this video we definitely recommend checking out el nido especially when
it's sunny so check the forecast before you come but the rain was still pretty dreamy as well
yeah i can barely hit my eyes open now i'm gonna have a nap that was that was definitely worth it
and it didn't really cost anything we got exercise um we got some sun and we got some good content i
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