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Our Palawan Monkey – We Called Her Monk
Palawan Monkey --We saw this little monkey on Christmas Day, as we drove through the Palawan countryside, and she reminded us of a pet monkey we had many years ago. -- We called her Monk. Her name was Daisy, but Daisy just didn’t fit someone so rambunctious and feisty. She was a little long-tailed macaque. She showed up at our…
Bona’s Chaolong on Palawan – Vietnamese-Filipino Beef Stew
by Donna Amis Davis / @DonnaAmisDavis View of Bona's from Manalo Street For a quick, delicious meal in Puerto Princesa, on your way to or from the Underground River, you can't beat Bona's Chaolong on Manalo Street. Vietnamese-style beef stew noodles, with a Palawan twist! To find Bona's Chaolong, go to the end of the National Highway, past the Provincial Capital complex,…
La Jolla Coast Walk – Could Anything Be Prettier?
La Jolla Shores View from Coast Walk If you visit San Diego, don't miss the views from the La Jolla Coast Walk! You'll see surfers, ocean kayakers, sea lions, pelicans, bluffs, and the wide Pacific. A quintessentially Southern California experience. I'll admit, I took these pictures in April, on a beautiful spring day, nasturtiums and daisies blooming. If you visit…
San Diego Kids Free October – San Diego Loves Kids – 100 Free Attractions in October!
Feeding the Ducks at San Diego Zoo Safari Park Kids are free in October all over San Diego! 100 partners have joined this year for San Diego Kids Free October. The San Diego Zoo has offered kids-free Octobers for more than 25 years. Local tourism officials expanded the program last year to get families to extend the summer traveling season…
Palawan — One of 20 Best Trips of 2011 — National Geographic
Underground River Entrance Palawan was honored to make National Geographic's list of the 20 Best Trips for 2011. And a warm Philippine welcome to all the visitors who are taking NatGeo's good advice and visiting this beautiful island! Puerto Princesa, and the rest of the island has many wonderful places to see and things to do. If you are a…
New Year’s Eve on Palawan – It Ain’t San Diego, Baby
by Donna Amis Davis Top three signs that you aren't in San Diego on December 31st: 1. Fireworks on New Year's Eve instead of the Fourth of July. 2. Stall after stall of firecrackers for sale. They are illegal there, but not here. So be warned, New Year's Eve gets crazy with sparkles, noise and smoke. 3. Piles of fresh…
My Novel’s Plot in One Sentence
This evening I crafted the log-line of my novel. The log-line is the seed idea, or what your novel is about in one sentence. It's the pitch. I want to thank Kristen Lamb for her outstanding post about Keeping Focused & Nailing the Pitch - Understand the "Seed Idea". Also, Nathan Bradsford, with his meaty advice: Do You Have a…
Palawan Grocery Store Dancers
by Donna Amis Davis Several times a day, the employees at the NCCC grocery and department store in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, line up in the aisles and do a choreographed dance to NCCC's theme song. They were good-natured enough to allow me to video them.
Grating Kamoteng Kahoy (Cassava)
by Donna Amis Davis (To continue the theme of Food, I am reposting an article I wrote awhile ago about the Palawanos' staple food - sengley kayo, or kamoteng kahoy in Tagalog. English is cassava, I think.) The other day I visited Aming's house, and came across Bibi doing something I hadn't seen before. She had a big piece of…
Palawan Road Food
by Donna Amis Davis As far as Donna is concerned, the best part of any road trip is the snacks. Munching makes miles move. Especially on Palawan buses, if my taste buds and tummy are happy, my twisted spine doesn't complain so much from sitting crammed sideways on too-close-together seats. Discovery is the fun part. What can I get to…