Monday, June 11, 2012

El Nido, Sunburn and rock climbing


Saturday June 9
Friday morning Michael went scrambling, a.k.a hiking that is more like rock climbing without a rope. I'm really glad I didn't go, I don't think I would have liked it much. He said it was basically like 5.7 climbing for 1.5 hours up, and 1.5 hours back down. He did that early in the morning and was back by 9:45. They asked 500 pesos for a guide.
We debated going on another tour of the little islands, and decided to do it even though it  was only for half a day. It cost around 1500 pesos for both of us. We had a private boat and went to 2 snorkeling spots and a beach. My favorite place was called helicopter island. As the name says, the rock formations looked like an actual helicopter. There were tons of different fish to look at while snorkeling. We even saw two (dead) jellyfish! 

I put sunscreen on three times yesterday, but still managed to get sunburnt. It's not horrible but sunburn always sucks!

We stayed out of the sun today because of my sunburn. We laid on the beach in the shade all day reading our kindle books and taking photos. The past two days it has been very sunny and extremely hot! Our room sucks during the day because there is no electricity, so that means no fan and no air. Our room is not well ventilated either. Even with the fan it's very muggy and hot in our room. But we can't complain! It only costs about $8 each per night!

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