is the best pineapple i've ever had it's been really good
starting in el nido because we've been really run down from staying in cities a lot just
wanted to get back to that island life and i feel like this is the perfect place to do that
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we're digital nomads currently traveling the world in search of somewhere we can call our
forever home we just arrived in the philippines a few days ago and made our way to a popular beach
town called el nido on palawan island where we plan on seeing if we can live here long term uh
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so we came to the philippines because we were looking to sort of escape the big cities
we're kind of on the hunt right now for an island we can just relax
on really happy that we've started here it's pretty dreamy even though it's
been raining almost the whole time we've been here it's pretty amazing still like a tropical paradise
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so we started our trip in el nido because the palawan province is somewhere that we
got recommended a lot thanks to a lot of our instagram followers who reached out and dm'd
us with recommendations they suggested if we're going to come to palawan we need to come to el
nido and it was also fairly easy getting here from manila you can either take a boat which
takes a long time or you can fly to porto princessa and then get a bus which is what
we did we're really keen on spending much time in manila just because we've been in cities for
two weeks straight we needed to get to the island so far it's pretty good
we just got probably the freshest pineapple i've ever had in my life
it's so sweet it's so good oh my god it was two dollars for the whole pineapple
it's delicious he cut it up fresh right in front of us he's awesome even though it has
been raining pretty much the whole time we've been here it's still been very dreamy and magical
the rain deserves some love too even though we do miss the sun a little bit the only downside
at the moment that we've been having trouble with is finding affordable accommodation in el nido
and actually the thing we were most worried about coming here was that the wi-fi was going to be bad
because we saw a lot of reviews on because of all the cliffs in the mountains and stuff around el
nido makes service and wi-fi pretty bad but it's actually been pretty good since we've been here
this is the best pineapple i've ever had it's been really good starting in el nido because we've been
really run down from staying in cities a lot just wanted to get back to that island life and i feel
like this is the perfect place to do that um it is a little bit touristy but i guess not too bad
at the moment maybe because it is rainy season so maybe it is a better time to come the rain is
actually supposed to clear up in the next couple of days so hopefully we'll be able to see it
in a different sort of light we're pretty happy here at the moment can't complain philippines has
always been on our list of places to go basically because there's so many different islands for you
to check out and just feels really good to be back to island life again so far
my impressions of the philippines it's almost like being in central america because of the american
and spanish influence and they drive on the right hand side um yeah it just feels like almost like
you could be in somewhere in central america instead of asia it's quite strange but i like it
we love the filipino people we think they might be the most friendly and happiest people we've ever
met they've been so kind and they're always waving at us and saying hello and uh we've just felt yeah
really welcomed since we've been here so el nido is one of the most popular tourist destinations
in the philippines mainly because of the diving and snorkeling here there's so many different
islands and beaches you can go to there's some pretty standardized island hopping tours
you'll see these tour shops offering guided tours pretty much everywhere um there's four tours to
choose from because of the weather we're not sure if we're going to be able to make it on one of the
island hopping tours but it's also a popular place to go kayaking you can go to a lot of
secluded beaches from kayaks uh today we've just chosen to rent a bike and visit a couple
of different beaches so we were just uh mary magmeg beach and we've just come down here
to leo beach which is right near the airport and it's really nice here there's restaurants
lining up the beach just need this cloud cover to lift a little bit i mean i really like this
beach because there's free beach chairs that you can use which is nice so you'd have to lay in the
sand one other thing to note is that the atms here often run out of money i had that problem twice
now i had to go to like four different atms so luckily there's a few of them around but don't be
surprised if a lot of them run out of money it's actually surprisingly busy here i thought it would
be a lot quieter there's a lot of tourists here and most of the hotels are pretty heavily booked
one thing we've definitely noticed since being in philippines is food's really cheap like
even if we go to a nice sort of touristy style western restaurant you're still gonna get a meal
under ten dollars um which is a bit different to where we've been i'm yet to figure out though
what the filipino traditional food is i think it might be barbecue pork but if anyone knows
let us know in the comments because i want to try it it looked like a bit of a wet rat
but that was delicious so far the seafood in el nido has been
incredible it's been my favorite thing to eat so far also look at sweet bowls as well
it's all the same
we just finished lunch at a place called happiness beach bar one of the things i really like about
el nido so far is the abundance of healthy food options that are here that are super affordable
as well huge bonus for us unfortunately right now we need to head to the doctor because poor lloyd
has an ear infection i haven't been able to hear anything out of this side for like five days now
and starting to bother me it's getting a bit frustrating trying to talk to him
i feel okay apart from that but yeah i mean i get it yeah so the only way to get
around is in one of these tricycles we call it a tuk-tuk still but yeah
it's the only way to get around and i'll need to find us no no doctor
how'd you go i could hear again i finally went to the doctor after five days
yeah i was being a bit stubborn i thought you have a doctor phobia i have a doctor phobia
and it's like a last resort because i thought it was probably just from our lifestyle and
inflammation and lack of sleep and if i got some sleep and got healthy again it would go away but
we caught up with sleep and we've been really healthy and my ear was still
completely blocked so today i said i'm just gonna go to the doctor and he flushed it straight out
i feel like a new man i can't wait to talk to you again for what five days
good thing to note i guess if anything goes wrong because a lot of these islands don't actually have
hospitals or doctors at them so el nido has actually quite a few options for the doctor
here which is great and it's a sunday and we got straight in um
i don't think it's too expensive either yeah maybe like maybe fifty dollars 50.
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so it wasn't the most relaxing ride i've ever had to yoga now those tricycles are really loud i need
a bigger engine in those bikes they struggle up the hill but they cheat and they go everywhere
and we got here on time so one thing i've noticed though is um when i show them a place to go on the
map they don't want to use the maps they want to figure out where it is and there's this back and
forth we go with like they ask me for directions and i'm like just you can just hold the phone
man and use the map it's fine like i'll direct you that um they don't trust it seems to freak
them out a little bit i think they know the whole island so when i show them a place like this where
they've never been i don't like it but we're just about to do a half a class we're not sure
how long it is we don't really know anything about this when would you like to argue class
bali yeah i haven't been in the studio since bali so it feels pretty good to be back in the studio
and i'm not going that long again without it so at the moment because el nido is quite um quiet
they only have classes tuesdays and thursdays at 9 00 a.m and it's half the classes so we
we don't know how much it is yet it was we walked in and um she thought it was the wrong day she
thought it was monday and then we thought we had the wrong day too we weren't sure we don't know
what day it is we'll see how we go it's good to be out in a fresh air doing a class though yes
yoga was really good it's exactly what i needed i'm a bit bummed that it's only two times a week
and that's the only place that's open in el nido at the moment just because they're still sort of
like reopening from kobe but it was still really nice and we were the only ones in there which is
good that's about ten dollars each which is pretty standard for a yoga drop in the room itself was
quite small so not many people could fit in it but i it was just so good to be back in the class and
have someone else telling me what to do so i could just switch off fully yeah i'm never gonna go that
long without going to a class again it's really important to me all right guys thank you so much
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