Our beach for few hours only
We can't be bothered to visit tourist packed beaches which were highlights of the Island hopping. Instead, we asked the boatmen to get us to any beach which is empty... there we spent few hours including lunchtime. We'd been to those places 25 years ago. The serinity and natural charm of old seemes gone. Those days tourism was yet a miniscule industry of the island. It was the time where vehicles follow the meandering dirt roads of the province down to the beaches from the capital. Now development of the island seemed has gone faster than the rest outiside Manila.
Those days it's easy to spot just a handful of backpacking tourists. We visited the small and big lagoon in 1992, we were alone at those lagoons. Now of 2018 the small lagoon entrance seemed to be jammed packed with boats to few hundreds in my calculations on that moment. It's harder to manuever with a canoe. I have to be honest, too many visitors of a nature spot diminishes the charm of the place. There's pros and cons in tourism and I hope Palawan will not follow the dreadful and predictable path of Boracay.
Our beach for few hours only
We can't be bothered to visit tourist packed beaches which were highlights of the Island hopping. Instead, we asked the boatmen to get us to any beach which is empty... there we spent few hours including lunchtime. We'd been to those places 25 years ago. The serinity and natural charm of old seemes gone. Those days tourism was yet a miniscule industry of the island. It was the time where vehicles follow the meandering dirt roads of the province down to the beaches from the capital. Now development of the island seemed has gone faster than the rest outiside Manila.
Those days it's easy to spot just a handful of backpacking tourists. We visited the small and big lagoon in 1992, we were alone at those lagoons. Now of 2018 the small lagoon entrance seemed to be jammed packed with boats to few hundreds in my calculations on that moment. It's harder to manuever with a canoe. I have to be honest, too many visitors of a nature spot diminishes the charm of the place. There's pros and cons in tourism and I hope Palawan will not follow the dreadful and predictable path of Boracay.