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Palawan Travel Photography: Exploring El Nido

El Nido is probably my favorite town in Palawan, and I've been lucky enough to make the trip back there several times since the first visit with Preston in February 2005. Set in a quiet bay with a view dominated by Cadlao, a large tropical island with steep karst limestone cliffs, the town is home to less than 10,000 people. Still it can feel sort of crowded in places because the dramatic limestone cliffs put a restriction on the places where people can build houses and live. Maybe without the scenery El Nido would just be another non-descript town in the Philippines, but views rivalling the spectacular tropical islands of southern Thailand (and without the crowds), El Nido is justifiably a top destination for anyone visiting Palawan.