Sunday, March 4, 2018

Report #62 Puerto Princesa, Philippines March 3, 2018 Saturday Isolated thunderstorms & 85 degrees Part #2 Of 3 85 Pictures

More to come…..

 

 

Fresh catch

 

More barracuda

 

Crabs of the area

 

These were still alive

 

Shrimp

 

Back to the start

 

Trying to find our way out

 

All of the onions, garlic, and ginger

 

Salted eggs were the most expensive

 

Tomatoes were small

 

Shoppers of the morning

 

The older part of town

 

More tricycles than cars

 

Lots of motor scooters

 

Tricycles are cheap transport for one or two

 

Scooter parking

 

Easy clothes shopping

 

Sales everywhere

 

Many items for sale

 

Chinese New Year decorations

 

Chinatown

 

Festive-looking

 

A Jollibee Restaurant

 

A truck transport and stretch vans

 

Try squeezing into this truck

 

The kids were cute

 

No shoes today

 

Traffic…need we saw more

 

Shacks in between the shops

 

Look what we found….. the new SM Mall

 

Modern supermarket

 

Passengers arriving from the Amsterdam

 

Inside the mall, which is 6 months new

 

Shakey’s Pizza

 

Too early for lunch

 

Kids out of school

 

Rice is one of the main staples

 

They do like their sweet pastries

 

Some of these may be animal feed

 

Wonder what the best rice is?

 

Bird feed

 

Also pig feed

 

Not sure what these were

 

Sold by the kilo

 

A little of everything

 

Working with wood and selling shoes

 

No place to park

 

The only jeepney we saw

 

Entrance to the Baywalk on the waterfront

 

A sign post

 

Wonder what this means?

 

Great big leaves

 

A car parts garage

 

Very rural now

 

Scenery on the way back to the ship

 

Looked like a school

 

Small convenience store

 

Prepared food sold here

 

A home that offered many services

 

Closed for now

 

Walking towards the church

 

Immaculate Conception Cathedral

 

A pretty church built in 1961

 

Angular design inside

 

Patio outside

 

Nice gardens

 

Walking towards the old site of the prison

 

Entrance to Plaza Cuartel

 

An old military base

 

Souvenir stalls inside

 

Story of WWII history

 

Not a good story

 

Reading the signs about the war

 

Restored ruins

 

Nice park now

 

Monuments

 

Great place for shade

 

View of the Cathedral – outside patio was being re-done

 

Princess Eulalia Park across the street

 

The winding road back downhill

 

A dog in a driveway

 

Port building

 

Entrance to the commercial port

 

View of the Baywalk from the pier

 

Long, hot hike back