Postcard From Palau
Hi everybody!
Our group arrived safely in Palau after a three-hour light from Manila with Continental Micronesia.
Our hotel, the Palau Pacific Resort, is fabulous! The food and the service is great, the room is really nice, the beach
is right outside our patio, and the views are stunning. Very friendly staff too.
We went diving with Fish and Fins, one of the original dive centres on Palau, to the Blue Hole and the Blue Wall and
saw an amazing number of fish, including some really big sharks and a monster Napoleon wrasse.. The folks from
Fish and Fins were very professional and really know how to run a dive trip.
Somehow, I always assumed Palau was all about diving. I never realised there was so much more to the place!
For example, yesterday, we went kayaking with Sam?s Dive Tours, another one of the original dive outfits. They do
these really great kayaking tours around the rock islands, a collection of shallow salt water lakes surrounded by
really impressive limestone cliffs (something like El Nido in Palawan but there?s about 100 of them ? you have to see
it to believe it!)
Our guide, Lee Goldman, is a Marine Biologist and really made the trip interesting with his informative patter. I
learned more about nature and the environment from him in one day than my biology teachers managed to cram
inside me for four years high school!
And kayaking is so much fun, and so easy to do. Everyone in our group was paddling away like pros after a few
minutes of instruction ? although Salve and Nancy from Continental kept ramming us ? I?m not sure of it was
deliberate or not?
Today, we rented a 4-wheel drive Pajero for only US$55 and went exploring on Babeldaub, the largest of the islands
around Koror, the capital, and where most of the Palauan population lives. We really enjoyed ourselves, and we
found lots of neat stuff.
Make room on the sideboard, because we?re bringing back a bunch of storyboards, Palauan folk tales carved into
local woods. In fact, we spent a lot of time shopping at the many craft stores al over the islands: they?re full of
unique and interesting gift items.
You really have to get over to see this place for yourself, guys, this is really a paradise on earth! Treat yourself
soon!
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