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Indigenous Peoples

Bohol, Philippines

A ferry took us from Cebu to Bohol. We had the opportunity to visit several land and ocean based sites on this island. We drove to the Chocolate Hills, a geological formation of nearly 1,300 conical hills spread over 20 square miles. These uniform shape and size hills (resembling giant chocolate Kisses when they are brown in the dry season) were formed by an uplift of coral deposits and then erosion by water and weathering over the centuries. They were green with only a few brown ones, even...

Puerto Princesa, Philippines

It was a wild ride from El Nido to Puerto Princesa -- or more specifically, Sabang and the Puerto Princesa Underground River (mid-way in Palawan island). The is another of the UNESCO World Heritage sites (1999). You must buy a ticket the day before, with visitor entry limits so it is not over visited resulting in pollution or other negative impacts on the delicate ecosystem. The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is set within a park filled with monkeys and monitor lizards,...

 
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