Coron, Palawan: Day 4 & 5

Day 4

• Calauit Safari
• Concepcion falls

We had an early start on Day 4.  We left Jazmine's Place before the break of dawn, stopped halfway to eat our breakfast then sat in the van for another hour before reaching Calauit Safari Park.  It was more or less a 2-hour trip by land.  

I wasn't so excited about this part of the trip, mainly because I am not a fan of zoos and the like, I feel as though the animals are harassed in exchange of photo ops.  Then again, I haven't had a safari experience yet, so I thought let's see.  I expected that the safari tour would mean we'll ride a jeep and go around the property, you know... as you see it on television, I didn't expect that it was a safari on foot.

I like animals, I like observing them in their natural habitat, undisturb.  

Our tour guide said that there was more or less 20 giraffes in the sanctuary, but we only saw two adult giraffes and a baby, the rest of them were most likely not yet hungry so they didn't appear on the feeding ground.  The poor giraffes also had open wounds, which was also a difficult sight for me.  It's funny though that the giraffes seem to prefer taking food from one person than the other.  I remember us waving the branch at them and they would come sniff it but not eat it.  

Aside from giraffes, there were zebras and Calamian deers also freely roaming around the sanctuary.  The rest of the other animals were caged, just like you see them in the zoo. 

It hurts when the giraffe keeps ignoring the food you're offering them

Last stop for the trip is Concepcion falls,  it's a downhill trek from the main road, sad to say I wasn't able to swim because it's that time of the month!

There was plenty of people when we arrived, it was really crowded.  There wasn't much room to sit or stand.  At a glance, the place looked abused, and with bad sanitation.

There was three to four concrete pavilions which were all taken when we arrived, so for a while everyone kind of didn't know what to do.

There was also only one changing room/restroom which didn't look kept, it was kind of filthy to be honest. 

Nevertheless, they had to experience Concepcion falls.  So off they went as I watched the bags.  The falls was roughly about 10 feet high, it seemed to be famous with the locals.

Local kids climbed up the jump-off spot like a boss

After the Concepcion falls experience, the ladies were told that they can wash up in the residential kubo where the van was parked.
The owners were kind to let tourists use their wash room for free.

After a tiring day, we headed back to Jazmine's Place.
Some of the girls together with the guys went to the market to buy ingredients for our paluto dinner at Luis Bay.

There was too much food I could only wish I can continue eating what was left over right now.We went back and had our nightly devotion sharing.

I was assigned to share that night, I chose to discuss on the topic, why some prayers are unanswered.  

Around 11pm, we went back to Luis Bay for some Karaoke.  It was our last night afterall, we were also celebrating birthdays of Mimi and Vianca.

Super fun night!  What happened in Luis Bay stays in Luis Bay. ;p

We left at around 3am?  Bummed that they're not open 24 hours.  Hahaha!

We had our last breakfast together the next morning, most of them had to leave for the airport at 10:30am.

Mimi, Sam and I had a later 4pm flight so we were left behind.  We actually still had some time to visit Mt. Tapyas as we wait, but being the titas and tito that we were, we just hanged and watched television in our room, had lunch at a nearby place before leaving for the airport.

Photo credits: Stan, Mimi, Jean