1st Time In El Nido, Philippines: Is This Paradise?
in today's video we are going to visit el nido one of the most beautiful and famous places in the Philippines yeah this is the Philippines that you imagine right the goal is to get some First Impressions see beautiful places and to have some fun but what's the downside to such a famous place it's usually the big crowds we saw literally like a 100 people walking by so that place over there is definitely totally overcrowded with people will that ruin the experience or can you even find quiet places here let's find out feel free to join all right but first I need to get to el nido I am currently in coron wow I think this is going to be an interesting flight I think this is one of the smallest planes I've ever been on and this is also one of the shortest flights of my life I think it's going to be less than 30 minutes oh I'm think I'm Too Tall here my head is hitting the top here almost so we have two seats on this side and then two seats on that side only all right I'm going to sit right here here in the first row all right where do we have the here two b and a is the window seat all right so this is also interesting I've never seen this before that somebody is flying backwards I know this is the first time I see this in the plane oh I'm not sure if I would like it to fly backwards you know very interesting configuration here actually the space for me is okay so I always book an exit seat so we have the exit seat right here so that I do have a bit more space because if you look here the space would be very limited if you are a tall person like I am but to be honest just half an hour flight so I wouldn't really mind but yeah othered so far I would say this is like a regular airplane despite the the seat configuration over there which I have never seen before but other than that small plane but similar feeling as in the big planes and yeah you can see the propellers from here and then it's actually pretty hot here let me turn this on all right excited for the let's go to a our fly time is approximately 20 minutes and we sh the C of 10,000 so usually I prefer flying with bigger planes because on the small ones you feel the turbulences if there are some way more than in the big planes but this flight was actually quite smooth and you can see on the map here that it wasn't a long distance we just flew from one Island to the neighboring one basically and yet throughout the flight we had beautiful views you could see all the islands to blue water so it was a very beautiful flight I have to say very interesting to just look out the window the whole time and then we arrived already at the airport at 10:54 so A short flight but a smooth one all right I think this was indeed the shortest Flight Of My Life 25 minutes only and we have arrived in ano thank you very much thank you wow this was an interesting experience with a small plane like this and now we have arrived in the paradise of need and yeah also here the airport seems to be very small which uh was kind of expected to be honest and yeah I actually do have two issues now that I need to figure out first of all I don't have a hotel booking yet so I need to figure out where to stay tonight hello thank you very much and then the second issue is I haven't had breakfast yet so I need breakfast and I need a hotel all right and this is the baggage claim area also very small and my bag is here all right so that was a smooth experience overall so compared to the ferry you can of course also take a ferry the ferry takes about 5 hours obviously the the flight is way faster but also of course more expensive I think I paid around $120 for the flight now and I just booked it like 2 days ago but yeah let's see if I can get breakfast here and then figure out where I'm going to stay maybe I get a sandwich here hello you have sandwiches yeah are they fresh you make them fresh yes or it's like cold ones no it's um we go get uh a bu you cook it fresh okay what do we have cheese grilled ham can I get the ham and cheese 195 pesos 195 yeah oh I understand vlogger yeah you want to say hello to YouTube hello what is your name Jam okay nice to meet you I saw your uh videos on Tik Tok oh you saw me on Tik Tok before yeah thank you very much thank you all right okay so here's the plan I'm going to finish the sandwich now energize myself and then I have a look at what hotel options I have and then we are going to take a tricycle to town check in into the hotel and then explore around okay so I don't have a hotel yet for elido so what I'm going to do now is just browsing around booking.com see the options that I have so I'm staying for three nights here I always use some filters Hotel private bathroom very good review and an air condition obviously of course as well let's see and yeah usually I my hotels one or two days in advance never more than that to be honest I'm very spontaneous and usually that's never a problem but yesterday I was so busy that I somehow forgot about booking a hotel for today I basically just remembered on the way to the airport earlier can I find tricycles here outside outside okay thank you all right the hotel is booked let's see if we can get to the hotel where can I to tricle yeah yeah what you want to tell sir I want to go to the to a seun hotel 300 00 yes oh you have fixed prices here yeah yeah yeah oh interesting okay 300 is the same price that the girl over there mentioned and seems to be the case that they have fixed prices here welcome oh thank you very much see Hotel hello I'm your driver oh sure okay thank you very much yeah how many minutes to the town maybe 15 15 minutes but if you want to eight if you want to make it 8 we need fly if I want to make it 8 minutes we can fly yeah okay let's make it let's make it 8 minutes is this the flying tricycle of elido oh that will be interesting how many people you can fit in here uh two people people yeah yeah then more people and then including all the luggage it's going to be pretty tight in there I guess you're tired even here okay very good so you don't need to be worried about the safety of your B here and we have all the highlights here already npan Beach Las Cab's Beach zipline Kopi walk so many things to do here so your name is AR yeah yeah are you from yeah I live here but I mean are you born here uh I was born in the not hereo and part of Palawan is palan yeah you know P bon no I don't know P Bon is the uh it's a beautiful Tre also here in Palawan Palawan everywhere is beautiful I think right that's good what is the most beautiful place in palan in your opinion here is the most beautiful so I was already be really loving coron you probably saw my previous videos from coron how beautiful it is there and now he says it's more beautiful here so my expectations are really high now but um yeah once we have checked in very curious to explore around might even meet up with one of my friends later again this is the town right yeah yeah so we have arrived in the need Town how many people live here I don't know but it's small town right not not a big town obviously so small cozy Town that's what I have heard people right yeah over here over there okay a this one here ah we have arrived seon Hotel let's see what you can get in a town for $100 night oh that was an easy ride I think it was even less than 15 minutes to be h this we do have a quick tricycle almost flying tricycle yeah very good we were very quick hello welcome hello 3 yeah okay thank you very much nice to meet you all right let's check Ino oh we have some dogs here oh wow are these the hotel dogs yes oh wow oh look how fluffy they are that is cute what are the names of the dogs um this one is China this one is samb this one you can touch her but this one please no this one I can't touch yes this this one is Moody one a moody one she doesn't want to be touched hello hello but this one is okay oh it's so fluffy wow what a nice dog oh I think I've never checked into a hotel and the first thing I see there are two Lovely Hotel dogs good first impression yeah can I check in already ask what is your name please reservation I just booked 15 minutes ago when I arrived at the airport and just you or you have just one person yeah just yeah so you see my name in your system already yes very quick and easy okay so yeah I can't check in but they told me I can check in already in like 30 minutes so I gave me some water and I have Wi-Fi access already and this is the the breakfast area already so I have breakfast included here which yeah obviously it's too late already now we do have a little pool area here which looks actually quite cozy and good for relaxing let's check it out let's open the window for the view yeah so if you want the even with Ocean View here yeah it's near oh nice yeah so if you want to going going out so maybe right side and then the maybe it's a five walk 5 minutes to the beach yeah yeah 5 minutes or 2 minutes something like that make it very close oh wow that looks very nice so so if you want to smoke sir please open here I don't smoke oh okay so maybe you take a pies already yeah but sitting here maybe drinking coffee or something yeah so we have a big main room like this we have a big double bed we have a place to yeah put some things there's a fridge down there actually is there something inside I don't don't think so no nothing inside but I will fill it up later with some drinks uh actually a lot of uh storage places here you know a desk right here yeah we already saw the ocean view which uh looks really really beautiful we're going to check out the beach later in the video of course as well so yeah this is what you can get in elnido for $100 a night obviously elido is a bit pricey because it's a very touristy Place probably yeah together with coron where I'm just coming from the most touristic place in the Philippines so obviously the prices are a bit up here okay so this is very interesting what is this for like what is this supposed to block ah maybe it's to block the wind from the airon so it doesn't blow directly onto the bed oh then it's actually very smart wow I've never seen something like this and yeah guys by the way I recently released my Philippines travor guide eBook The Book is Full with useful information about traveling in the Philippines like how to get around the country how to find the best hotel deals a full breakdown of my average cost of living and traveling here and the core of the book is my personal collection of over 100 Google Maps links to locations all over the country every hotel that I have been to that I can recommend every restaurant viewpoints hidden gems motorbike rental shops and so on all the places that I personally have visited that I can recommend to you are linked in the book if you would like to check out the book I will leave a link in the description thank you very much okay all right I was able to uh rent a motorbike at my hotel and now we're going to explore but first we're going to meet a friend now he should be somewhere down the road here all right there he is what's up hello hello how's it going can't recognize you with you look like a gangster I know I know I got to protect from the Sun but uh some of you may know him this is Jonathan from the channel travel escapes maybe you could uh recognize the oh the B head oh I'm about oh there's a car coming let me get out of the rain okay he's already here in elido for I think a week now you're here already for a week right yeah yeah so you know the area a little bit yeah I'm the I guess I'm the tour guide expert the area where you want to go now you know the way yeah okay then you lead the way okay I'm just going to follow you then okay so we're just going to follow him he knows the aere already I obviously don't because I literally just arrived but yeah you can see the weather is perfect to rent the scooter explore around on your own that's one of the best things you can do in the Philippines get on the bike explore a beautiful area like here on your own oh I love doing that and wow how cool looks that the huge Limestone Cliffs here you're basically passing by them while cruising around the town wow that is really nice but yeah other than that my first impressions here are it looks like a typical tourist Place wow to be honest just cruising around here is super fun and beautiful I mean just look at the road and then on the right side I can sometimes see a glimpse of the Ocean between all the trees here and what I've seen so far looks incredible so I'm very curious to see it and also to show you of course all right vanilla Beach okay here park here okay you'll get blocked in over there they'll move your you'll get blocked in like three rows deep so yeah okay sounds like a better option park to park here then okay we have arrived at the beach Las caban Beach which he just told me is one of the best spots for Sunset as well yep right yeah because the sun doesn't set in the elino town proper exact yeah yeah oh wow this looks incredible already yeah this is the Philippines that you imagine right beautiful beach good sand quality the water looks turquoise how do you say that in English turqua what's that turqua the color of the water in English turqu turquoise turquoise oh you thought it was French or something with a silent S no I mean I don't know it's English but I wasn't sure how to pronounce it yeah no tur turquoise turquoise we pronounce the S yeah it is pretty beautiful here and yeah elido the main town is on the right side of the a huge Cliff over there so that's where we are just coming from all right so since he has been here before already he knows a place where we can get food right on the beach and that actually sounds pretty good to me okay so this is the spot so we're going to have lunch here right in front of the beach one of the most beautiful beaches here in Palawan wow this looks like a really cool spot for restaurant he's having nice cocktails there that looks good so I guess it's going to be like Western food here pretty much I think it's got a little bit of everything I think they've got some Filipino favorites over here they've got crispy PA a crispy P yeah cang Pang what have you tried here before I always get the same thing which is just off the grill chicken kebab and beef sauté oh that sounds good actually I would like to have the vagio burger and then do you have uh Sprite yes okay then one Sprite please as well wow that looks delicious wow a vagu burger right on the beach with this view right [Music] here and potato fries and three different sauces so I think this is tomato sauce mayonnaise and C mustard I think you have peanut betti also very popular dish in the Philippines I tried it before as well okay so I don't even know where to start the vagu burger so usually vagu meat is yeah obviously way better quality than regular meat I tried vag new burger a few months ago in Malaysia maybe some of you have seen that video and that was a really awesome Burger experience and yeah have a look at this decent Petty here this is a really nice Petty have you tried vagio Burger before I've never you never tried it no oh the it's just a different meat experience I've I've eaten I've eaten it in Japan but not a burger I've had oh so you tried vagu be before I've had the beef yeah okay okay just not the burger just not the burger and it was it was torched yeah I think that's probably even better than yeah than the burger patties so the original vagu meat okay that's way better than this one I guess but yeah let me give it a bite now you immediately taste the difference it's just such a better beef quality it's very juicy there's like water squeezing out or probably it's fat and not water but yeah not sure if you can see it oh this is delicious what's the the bread like the bread is actually very I don't think it's a regular burger bun it's like brush bread oh yeah so it's h definitely better than the regular burger buns and then they Grill it a little bit you can see the the lines from the grill here that usually adds a good flavor and then you can see how the the fat is dripping out here so you can imagine how juicy the the beef is i' actually try the Veges as well W the Veges are also way better than regular french fries what do I pay for this I think 700 pesos so you of course pay a higher price because it's vagu beef and of course you have this view here amazing oh I'm down to the last two bites but once again if I squeeze it you can see the the juice the fat dripping out so that really shows how juicy this Patty is oh this was delicious all right he's got to catch the Drone because it's returning home now and the homeboy is in the ocean did you get that on film yeah that was not fun did you tell them what happened what happened actually so the Drone was trying to land by itself but the home point was in the water that was what what happened right exactly the it you want to establish a home point on sand on land but my home point was established in the water and then it lost connection for some reason and when it loses connection it goes to the home point and lands yeah yeah luckily it was just two met out yeah yeah if it were yeah you would have seen me swimming out there oh man look at this this isn't I'm waterproof yeah in case you don't know if the Drone gets into water it's done that's it for the Drone then that was that was intense we have the famous elnido zip line here we can do zip lining here yes sir and it's from here to the island over there right sorry that was starts from the mountain going to the island then if you're Tak one way there's a stairs in the landing site going down so you can walk back I can walk so I don't need to swim no need to swim so we have uh the sitting price is 600 Superman is 800 okay so we have to walk up this steep Road here but check out the view already from here so this is the zip lining starting somewhere over there and then wow I love the view here already and I can imagine it's even more beautiful once we're up there here we are we have reached the top and yeah the views already incredible from here just standing here and now imagine we are zip lining over there to that Island hello hello this is two sit one okay please sign your name here one in here and then one in oh what what are we signing here that's a waiver sir a voluntary waiver sir a voluntary waiver yep so I don't have to sign it um you're uh we're not forcing you to do the zip line that is true it's true I can I can say I'm not being forced to do the zip line here okay so probably like in case something happens then they are not responsible here I'm getting a helmet as well all right why do I need a helmet if you fall you're done yeah well I hope I don't fall for the cable he said for the cable okay all right is this actually a bit scary I'm not so sure huh how many meters is this 750 sir 750 m so almost 1 km down the line here towards the other Island you need to follow that position lean back and straight your legs all the way okay is this safe yeah yeah ever happened any accidents here no no accidents excident free okay are you ready sir yes I'm ready okay back more all right one two three enjoy okay let's go W oh this is oh my god oh no oh I'm oh no [Music] W oh check it out to you [Music] W oh that was a rough Landing you came in here okay I'm not going back wow that was fun right yeah way more fun than I thought it was going to be all right so we on the way back so we have to walk over these rocks here and then they're actually is a way a path to walk back to the beach but yeah just look at this the the sceneries here in elido are just out of this world this is just so beautiful I do understand now why this is one of the most famous and touristic places in the Philippines and I haven't even seen that much yet I literally just arrived a few hours ago okay so the idea is now because it's almost sunset time to find a beautiful spot to watch the beautiful sunset we have some coconuts here maybe we can get a fresh coconut are you thirsty this is uh a different place than where I got the coconut last time but yeah I'll I'll definitely drink a coconut they have H hallo here H hallo let's do that inside the coconut no I wish would have been good yeah we could do that we could chop I I thought do you get the Halo Halo inside the coconut we can put it together yes sir hello the girls over there told me you have delicious Halo Halo here oh yeah can I get Halo Halo inside the coconut sure different uh price that's okay it's 2 as long as it's delicious I'm happy to pay all right here we go I'm Halo hallo inside a coconut yeah oh wow I've never seen this before maybe we are the first persons ever to order a Halo Halo inside the coconut hey hold the H H I'm going to hold actra coconut all right so here we have it h hollow inside a coconut let me know in the comments if you ever saw this before but yeah what could be better then eating H hallo at the beautiful beach in the Philippines okay so there's a decent Siz coconut here and yeah what actually do we have inside here so I ate Halo Halo a couple of times last year in the Philippines already and usually some shops put in different ingredients as far as I know so let's see what she has in here so we have U ice cream in here we have bananas in here which is nice I'm a huge fan of bananas and this one should be ice shave shaved ice you call it shaved ice mhm right yeah and oh we also have mango here and then we have we have corn in here as well which is interesting and then I think some jelly but well let me just try it before I'm talking too much M it's delicious it's very creamy as well the U ice cream is very creamy thick and creamy maybe that's because it's half melted already I'm not sure but it's very good oh it's Mard up M up Mard up thank you very much it's delicious already banana pieces in here and actually you can see there's a lot in here oh also actually coconut I think I mean obviously we're eating inside a coconut so you kind of expect some coconut pieces in there which we do have in here oh combining coconut with Halo Halo is a great idea I think whose idea was it I think the girls gave us the idea right uh I don't remember I want to take credit for it oh the thing is you find so many different things once you dig deeper inside look at this there's green jelly in here so yeah this is a great idea if you happen to be somewhere in a beautiful location like this in the Philippines try it out H hallo inside a coconut so actually I want to show you the view again because we do have the sunset about to happen over there soon we have the Halo Halo in my hands eating a Halo Halo at a beach in the Philippines so you're saying you didn't spill it let's see if I can drink it as well without spilling it easy right yeah better than drinking with the paper straw yeah definitely easier that was very Mas up yeah very delicious and a very big portion yeah there was a lot to eat inside actually and then the M inside you going to put it together what did you also put coconut inside yeah exactly the meat inside there's a yeah I mean like the the juice I was tasting like coconut yeah but maybe just coming from the juice I'm not sure yeah exactly but it was delicious did someone ever order coconut inside H before but it's very difficult for that if I have alone here because it's a very um difficult to prepare yeah exactly yeah but you did a good job thank you for okay how much I owe you for one coconut one Halo Halo coconut and one water that's uh 290 for you 290 okay all right we're trying to get to to the Sunset Point actually this is already pretty epic here I think we can just continue here because yeah I was spotting uh an empty Beach on the other side of the bay oh be careful that rock is loose which one the the big one right here okay I think we made it to the beach and guess what we are the only people here better than the touristy place over there with like 100 people for sunset time so Wow have a look at this what a view and as you can see nobody here so over there this is the famous touristy Sunset Viewpoint and yeah the past 20 minutes while we were sitting there eating the Halo Halo we saw literally like a 100 people walking by so that place over there is definitely totally overcrowded with people and then you just go on a little Adventure through the bushes here and you can end up on a beautiful beach Beach just by yourself so in case you're wondering where we are now so this over there is vanilla Beach we have Las Cabanas Beach over there and then yeah basically next to vanilla Beach you can find this place right here we have some dogs here hello hello you look very wet and muddy oh three little uh stray dogs here well actually I don't think they have stray dogs because this one has a uh what do you call that so yeah I have seen plenty of beautiful sunsets in the past weeks here in the Philippines also you saw some of uh the previous sunsets uh in my videos from coron for example but I have to say this one is very very beautiful like there are no clouds you have a really clear shot of the sun going down it looks pretty cool because it's basically setting right beside or right in theid M of all these limestone rocks here what I love doing is getting away from everyone else that's what I do it in all my videos all the time right yeah if there's a group if everyone's going that way I'm going that way exactly like what we just did yeah same same and now I think we can literally witness the sun disappear should be I reckon 10 more seconds no even less and now the sun is gone wow we literally just witness the end of the day and if you want to see one of my previous videos where I was still in coron also one of the most beautiful places in the Philippines definitely a mustsee as well then feel free to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-06-02 07:39
